Planning and building
Services
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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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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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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.
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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
Guidance and regulation
- Fire safety: Approved Document B
- Conservation of fuel and power: Approved Document L
- Help to Build: Making building your own home more affordable
- Permitted development rights for householders: technical guidance
- Access to and use of buildings: Approved Document M
News and communications
- Letter to the Chair of the LUHC Select Committee about the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
- All public buildings to have separate male and female toilets
- Called-in decision: Edith Summerskill House, Clem Attlee Court, London, SW6 7TW (ref: 3277137 - 4 July 2022)
- Transformation of Middlewood Locks to continue with £30m deal
- Homes England agrees Strategic Place Partnership pilot with Greater Manchester
Research and statistics
- Planning Inspectorate statistical release 23 June 2022
- Live tables on planning application statistics
- Planning applications in England: January to March 2022
- Historical and discontinued planning live tables
- Live tables on housing supply: indicators of new supply
Policy papers and consultations
- Toilet provision for men and women: call for evidence
- Supporting defence infrastructure and the future of time-limited permitted development rights
- Consultation on the Higher Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations
- Electrical safety in social housing: consultation and call for evidence
- Government response to the independent review into scaling up self-build and custom housebuilding
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: March 2022
- Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: February 2022
- Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: January 2022
- Board meeting minutes - The Planning Inspectorate
- Register of Planning Inspectorate Board Member Interests
Organisations
- Environment Agency
- Natural England
- 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
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- UK Hydrographic Office