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Flying flags: a plain English guide

A guide to the flags that can be flown without permission from your local planning authority.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Published: 27 November 2012
• Last updated: 20 July 2021
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  1. 20 July 2021

     This guide has been updated to reflect the changes to the regulations on the flying of flags which came into effect in June 2021. These changes include: to allow double flagging, (the flying of two flags from the same flagstaff) of national and county flags; to add flags of the NHS to the category of flags with deemed consent; to remove the current reference to the flag of the European Union as a flag for which consent is not required following the UK’s departure from the EU.

  2. 27 November 2012

     First published.

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The government has recently made changes to regulations which widen the types of flags you may fly in England. This guide provides a brief summary of the new rules over flag flying that were introduced on 12 October 2012 and amended on 20 July 2021.