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
- Access to and use of buildings: Approved Document M
- Permitted development rights for householders: technical guidance
- Conservation of fuel and power: Approved Document L
- Building Regulations and Approved Documents index
News and communications
- Article 4 directions: Secretary of State modification letters
- Called-in decision: land at D'Urton Lane, Preston (ref: 3296374 - 30 January 2023)
- Housing and Planning Minister visits Digital Planning partner council
- Planning Inspectorate governance: Rebecca Driver
- Recovered appeal: land adjacent to HMP Garth and HMP Wymott, Leyland, Lancashire (ref: 3295556 - 19 January 2023)
Research and statistics
- Live tables on Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates
- Energy Performance of Building Certificates in England and Wales: October to December 2022
- Planning Inspectorate Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics
- Building Safety Programme: monthly data release - December 2022
- Planning Inspectorate statistical release 19 January 2023
Policy papers and consultations
- Alternative cost recovery for remediation works: consultation on proposals to make regulations and statutory guidance
- Service charge transparency requirements: ongoing costs of the new building safety regime - consultation and call for evidence
- Changes to the building control profession and the building control process for approved inspectors
- Consultation on the new safety regime for occupied higher-risk buildings
- Building safety directors: consultation
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Homes England commercial pipeline
- Register of Planning Inspectorate Board Member Interests
- Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: October 2022
- Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: September 2022
- Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: August 2022
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
- UK Hydrographic Office