Planning and building
Services
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Planning permission
When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision
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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
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Building regulations approval
When you need building regs approval, how to apply, using a competent person scheme, and determinations and appeals
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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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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
Guidance and regulation
- Permitted development rights for householders: technical guidance
- Fire safety: Approved Document B
- Preventing and resolving disputes in relation to party walls
- When is permission required?
- Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas
News and communications
- VIVID: building ambitious new grant-funded homes
- Wheelabrator Kemsley Generating Station (K3) and Wheelabrator Kemsley North (WKN) Waste to Energy Facility development consent decisions announced
- Homes England set to launch bidding for strategic partnerships
- Performance update – February 2021
- Recovered appeal: Land at Mitchelswood Farm, Allington Road, Newick, East Sussex (ref: 3119171 - 16 February 2021)
Research and statistics
- Planning Inspectorate – Statistics at The Planning Inspectorate
- Valuation Office Agency – Statistics at VOA
- Planning Inspectorate statistical release 18 February 2021
- Planning Inspectorate management information
- Planning Inspectorate: ad hoc analyses and statistics
Policy papers and consultations
- The Future of the New Homes Bonus consultation
- National Planning Policy Framework and National Model Design Code: consultation proposals
- Planning for the future
- Housing Infrastructure Fund
- Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission: government response to the ‘Living with Beauty’ report
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Board meeting minutes 19 November 2020 - The Planning Inspectorate
- Homes England Annual Report & Financial Statements 2018/19
- Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: December 2020
- The Planning Inspectorate Strategic Plan 2020 - 2024
- Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: November 2020
Organisations
- Environment Agency
- Natural England
- Innovate UK
- HM Land Registry
- Air Accidents Investigation Branch
- Defence Infrastructure Organisation
- Forestry Commission
- Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
- Defence Equipment and Support
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
- Highways England
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- UK Hydrographic Office