Skip to main content
Collection

Planning practice guidance

The National Planning Policy Framework and relevant planning practice guidance.

Updates to this page

From:
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021) and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Published:
29 November 2016
Last updated:
23 September 2026
Show all updates

  1. Updated link to the National Planning Policy Framework, which was revised 17 August 2026.

  2. Added Biodiversity net gain.

  3. Added Building Safety: Planning enforcement and the Responsible Actors Scheme (the ‘RAS Enforcement PPG’).

  4. Added Fire safety and high-rise residential buildings (from 1 August 2021)

  5. Added: First Homes

  6. Updated guidance on 'Design: process and tools'.

  7. added - Appropriate assessment, Effective use of land, Green Belt, Housing needs of different groups and Housing Supply and delivery

  8. Added Housing for older and disabled people

  9. Updated guidance on 'Neighbourhood planning' and 'Viability'.

  10. Added a link to a user feedback survey

  11. Added new guidance on 'Build to rent' and 'Plan-making'. Updated guidance on 'Housing need assessment', 'Housing and economic land availability assessment', 'Local Plans' and 'Neighbourhood Planning'.

  12. Added 'Housing Delivery Test measurement rule book'.

  13. Added guidance on 'Brownfield land registers' and 'Permission in principle'.

  14. First published.

The National Planning Policy Framework sets out the government’s planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied. The most recent published version of this can be accessed at National Planning Policy Framework.

It was originally published on 27 March 2012 and revised in 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 17 August 2026.

Planning practice guidance categories

We have revised and updated planning practice guidance to make it accessible.

Other planning policies

Contents

Related content