Planning and building

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Services

1. Planning permission

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

2. 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

3. Building regulations approval

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

4. 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

5. 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

1. Fire safety: Approved Document B
   • Statutory guidance
   • 11 September 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
2. Permitted development rights for householders: technical guidance
   • Guidance
   • 10 September 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
3. Preventing and resolving disputes in relation to party walls
   • Detailed guide
   • 12 May 2016
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
4. Access to and use of buildings: Approved Document M
   • Statutory guidance
   • 9 March 2016
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
5. When is permission required?
   • Detailed guide
   • 22 July 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

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News and communications

16 September 2019 — News story

Developing affordable urban heat networks - apply for funding

Innovate UK and UK Research and Innovation

1. RESI Convention 2019
   • 16 September 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Speech
2. Cash boost to crackdown on illegal building on nation's Green Belt
   • 12 September 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Press release
3. Highways England’s A1 Birtley to Coal House improvement application accepted for examination
   • 11 September 2019
   • Planning Inspectorate
   • Press release
4. Notes on neighbourhood planning: edition 23
   • 10 September 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

1. Quality indicators: Taking Part survey
   • 19 September 2019
   • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
   • National statistics
2. Northern Ireland Planning Monitoring Framework 2018/19
   • 19 September 2019
   • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland)
   • Official statistics
3. Building Safety Programme: monthly data release - August 2019
   • 12 September 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Research
4. Valuation Office Agency – Statistics at VOA
   • 19 August 2019
   • Valuation Office Agency
   • Statistics
5. Planning Inspectorate Appeals Data
   • 19 August 2019
   • Planning Inspectorate
   • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Sprinklers and other fire safety measures in new high-rise blocks of flats
   • 5 September 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 28 November 2019
2. Technical review of Approved Document B of the building regulations: a call for evidence
   • 5 September 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 15 March 2019
3. Proposed reforms to permitted development rights to support the deployment of 5G and extend mobile coverage
   • 27 August 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 04 November 2019
4. Modern methods of construction: government response to the Select Committee report
   • 18 September 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Policy paper
5. Housing Infrastructure Fund
   • 20 August 2019
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, HM Treasury, and Homes England
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: July 2019
   • 6 September 2019
   • Planning Inspectorate
   • Transparency
2. Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: June 2019
   • 6 August 2019
   • Planning Inspectorate
   • Transparency
3. Natural England’s response times to planning consultations in England
   • 30 July 2019
   • Natural England
   • Corporate report
4. The Planning Inspectorate Strategic Plan 2019 - 2024
   • 23 July 2019
   • Planning Inspectorate
   • Corporate report
5. The Planning Inspectorate annual report and accounts 2018/19
   • 16 July 2019
   • Planning Inspectorate
   • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
2. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
3. Planning Inspectorate
4. Valuation Office Agency
5. Coal Authority

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1. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
2. HM Treasury
3. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Homes England
6. Cabinet Office
7. Department for Transport
8. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
9. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
10. Building Regulations Advisory Committee
11. Department for Work & Pensions
12. Ministry of Defence
13. Home Office
14. Infrastructure and Projects Authority
15. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
16. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
17. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
18. Marine Management Organisation
19. Ministry of Justice
20. Department of Health & Social Care
21. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
22. Department for Education
23. Government Equalities Office
24. HM Revenue & Customs
25. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
26. Attorney General's Office
27. Central Arbitration Committee
28. Government Legal Department
29. HM Passport Office
30. Office for Civil Society
31. Office for Product Safety & Standards
32. Official Solicitor and Public Trustee

1. Environment Agency
2. Natural England
3. Innovate UK
4. HM Land Registry
5. Air Accidents Investigation Branch
6. Defence Infrastructure Organisation
7. Forestry Commission
8. Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
9. Defence Equipment and Support
10. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
11. Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
12. Social Security Advisory Committee
13. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
14. Highways England
15. Marine Accident Investigation Branch
16. UK Hydrographic Office

Explore sub-topics

1. Building regulation
2. Energy efficiency in buildings
3. Environmental planning
4. House building
5. Housing design and sustainability
6. Land and development opportunities
7. Landscape
8. Local Plans
9. Party walls
10. Planning permission and appeals
11. Planning reform
12. Planning system