Planning and building

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Services

• 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

• Planning permission

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

• 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.

• Building regulations approval

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

• 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
  • 1 June 2022
  • 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 June 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Help to Build: Making building your own home more affordable
  • Guidance
  • 27 June 2022
  • Homes England
• 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
• Access to and use of buildings: Approved Document M
  • Statutory guidance
  • 7 June 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

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News and communications

• Letter to the Chair of the LUHC Select Committee about the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
  • 5 July 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Correspondence
• All public buildings to have separate male and female toilets
  • 4 July 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Press release
• Called-in decision: Edith Summerskill House, Clem Attlee Court, London, SW6 7TW (ref: 3277137 - 4 July 2022)
  • 4 July 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Correspondence
• Transformation of Middlewood Locks to continue with £30m deal
  • 29 June 2022
  • Homes England
  • News story
• Homes England agrees Strategic Place Partnership pilot with Greater Manchester
  • 28 June 2022
  • Homes England
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Planning Inspectorate statistical release 23 June 2022
  • 23 June 2022
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Official statistics
• Live tables on planning application statistics
  • 23 June 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Statistical data set
• Planning applications in England: January to March 2022
  • 23 June 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • National statistics
• Historical and discontinued planning live tables
  • 23 June 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Statistical data set
• Live tables on housing supply: indicators of new supply
  • 22 June 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

• Toilet provision for men and women: call for evidence
  • 4 July 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 26 February 2021
• Supporting defence infrastructure and the future of time-limited permitted development rights
  • 20 June 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , Ministry of Defence, and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 14 November 2021
• Consultation on the Higher Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations
  • 9 June 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 21 July 2022
• Electrical safety in social housing: consultation and call for evidence
  • 8 June 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 31 August 2022
• Government response to the independent review into scaling up self-build and custom housebuilding
  • 24 June 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: March 2022
  • 25 April 2022
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: February 2022
  • 25 April 2022
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: January 2022
  • 25 April 2022
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Board meeting minutes - The Planning Inspectorate
  • 12 April 2022
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Register of Planning Inspectorate Board Member Interests
  • 6 April 2022
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
• Planning Inspectorate
• 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
• Building Digital UK
• 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
• 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

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• Housing design and sustainability
• Land and development opportunities
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• Party walls
• Planning permission and appeals
• Planning reform
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