Planning and building

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Services

• Planning permission

  When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision

• Search the register of planning decisions

  Check out how you can view proposed building plans or developments and object or comment on them through the local council

• Building regulations approval

  When you need building regs approval, how to apply, using a competent person scheme, and determinations and appeals

• Appeal or search for a planning decision or notice

  Search for an appeal against a planning decision or notice from your local planning authority, or start a new appeal

• Party walls and building work

  When and how to tell neighbours about building works on party walls, what to do if you've been notified of works, how to come to an agreement

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Guidance and regulation

• Fire safety: Approved Document B
  • Statutory guidance
  • 26 November 2020
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Permitted development rights for householders: technical guidance
  • Guidance
  • 10 September 2019
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• When is permission required?
  • Detailed guide
  • 4 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Building Regulations and Approved Documents index
  • Detailed guide
  • 10 August 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Conservation of fuel and power: Approved Document L
  • Statutory guidance
  • 15 December 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

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News and communications

• Called in decisions: 3 x planning applications at various sites in East Lindsey (17 January 2022)
  • 17 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Correspondence
• Urban and deprived areas among those chosen for planning pilots
  • 11 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Press release
• Government sets out new plan to protect leaseholders and make industry pay for the cladding crisis
  • 10 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Press release
• Government forces developers to fix cladding crisis
  • 10 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Press release
• Letter from the DLUHC Secretary of State to the residential property developer industry on a new approach to building safety
  • 10 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• Live tables on housing supply: indicators of new supply
  • 13 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Statistical data set
• Housing supply: indicators of new supply, England: July to September 2021
  • 13 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • National statistics
• EWS1 (or equivalent) lender data on mortgage valuations for flats: April to September 2021, United Kingdom
  • 10 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Research
• Industry Safety Steering Group third report on culture change in the built environment industry
  • 10 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Independent report
• Planning Inspectorate Staff Diversity Statistics 2021 – Release 18th November 2021
  • 31 December 2021
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• The Future Buildings Standard
  • 15 December 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 13 April 2021
• Consultation: Amendments to the Building Societies Act 1986
  • 6 December 2021
  • HM Treasury
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 28 February 2022
• Domestic smoke and carbon monoxide alarms
  • 23 November 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 11 January 2021
• Local government and the path to net zero: government response to the Select Committee report
  • 13 January 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Policy paper
• 2021 uplift to energy efficiency standards, improved ventilation and new overheating requirement
  • 15 December 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Impact assessment

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Register of Planning Inspectorate Board Member Interests
  • 12 January 2022
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: November 2021
  • 10 January 2022
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: October 2021
  • 10 January 2022
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Board meeting minutes - The Planning Inspectorate
  • 2 December 2021
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• The Planning Inspectorate Strategic Plan 2021-2025
  • 20 October 2021
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

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• Planning Inspectorate
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
• Valuation Office Agency
• Coal Authority

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• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• HM Treasury
• Homes England
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Cabinet Office
• Department for Transport
• HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Ministry of Defence
• Home Office
• Department for Work & Pensions
• Building Regulations Advisory Committee
• Infrastructure and Projects Authority
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• Civil Nuclear Constabulary
• Civil Nuclear Police Authority
• Marine Management Organisation
• Ministry of Justice
• Department for Education
• Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
• Government Equalities Office
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
• Attorney General's Office
• Central Arbitration Committee
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Government Legal Department
• HM Passport Office
• Office for Product Safety & Standards
• Official Solicitor and Public Trustee

• Environment Agency
• Natural England
• Innovate UK
• HM Land Registry
• Air Accidents Investigation Branch
• Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
• Defence Equipment and Support
• Forestry Commission
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
• Social Security Advisory Committee
• Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
• Marine Accident Investigation Branch
• UK Hydrographic Office

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