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Services

• 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

• Appeal a planning decision

  Appeal a decision by your local planning authority about an application for planning permission - documents you need to provide, who can appeal, how long it takes

• Appeal a householder planning decision

  Appeal a decision on a householder planning application by your local planning authority - deadlines, how to appeal and how long it takes to get a decision

• Appeal an enforcement notice

  Appeal against a planning enforcement notice. How to apply, who can apply, claim costs, how long it takes

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Guidance and regulation

• Fire safety: Approved Document B

  Statutory guidance

  7 December 2010

  Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

• Access to and use of buildings: Approved Document M

  Statutory guidance

  9 March 2016

  Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

• Preventing and resolving disputes in relation to party walls

  Detailed guide

  12 May 2016

  Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

• Permitted development rights for householders: technical guidance
  • Guidance
  • 6 April 2017
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• When is permission required?
  • Detailed guide
  • 15 June 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

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News and communications

15 October 2018 — Correspondence

East Hertfordshire local plan: letters from the Secretary of State

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

1. Housing Market Intelligence conference 2018
   • 12 October 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Speech
2. Recovered appeal: land at Bullsmoor, off Nottingham Road, Belper (ref: 3183493 - 11 October 2018)
   • 11 October 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Correspondence
3. Called-in decision: land at Bullsmoor off Nottingham Road, Belper (ref: 3194115 - 11 October 2018)
   • 11 October 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Correspondence
4. RIBA Stirling Prize
   • 10 October 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Speech

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Research and statistics

• Local authority green belt statistics for England: 2017 to 2018
  • 4 October 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • National statistics
• Building Safety Programme: monthly data release - September 2018
  • 20 September 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Research
• RHI deployment data: August 2018
  • 20 September 2018
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Official statistics
• Planning applications in England: April to June 2018
  • 20 September 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • National statistics
• Live tables on planning application statistics
  • 20 September 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

• HM Land Registry: moving operations to the private sector 4 October 2018

  Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 26 May 2016

• Building regulations and fire safety: government response to Select Committee report
  • 18 September 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Policy paper
• Building safety: independent expert advisory panel - terms of reference
  • 18 September 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Policy paper
• Oxfordshire housing deal
  • 14 September 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Policy paper
• Progress towards the sustainability of the building stock in England: sixth Parliamentary report
  • 14 September 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Environment Agency objections to planning on the basis of flood risk
  • 19 September 2018
  • Environment Agency
  • Transparency
• Building Regulations Advisory Committee members' handbook
  • 3 August 2018
  • Building Regulations Advisory Committee
  • Corporate report
• Register of Planning Inspectorate Board Member Interests
  • 5 June 2018
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: January 2018
  • 28 February 2018
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: December 2017
  • 31 January 2018
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency

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1. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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3. Planning Inspectorate
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