Planning and building

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Services

• Planning permission

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

• 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

• Building regulations approval

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

• 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

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Guidance and regulation

• Permitted development rights for householders: technical guidance
  • Guidance
  • 10 September 2019
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• When is permission required?
  • Detailed guide
  • 18 September 2020
  • 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
• Fire safety: Approved Document B
  • Statutory guidance
  • 26 May 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas
  • Detailed guide
  • 6 March 2014
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

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News and communications

21 September 2020 — Press release

Jenrick announces next steps to put beauty and design at heart of planning system

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

• The Planning Inspectorate publishes its 2019/20 Annual Report and Accounts
  • 11 September 2020
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Press release
• Robert Jenrick's speech to Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) 2020
  • 11 September 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Speech
• Called-in decision: land at Citroen Site, Capital Interchange Way, Brentford (ref: 3226914 - 10 September 2020)
  • 10 September 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Correspondence
• £30 million boost to help unlock land for new homes
  • 9 September 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and Cabinet Office
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Health Risk Assessment of asbestos air quality monitoring results: Grenfell Tower
  • 17 September 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and Public Health England
  • Research
• Building Safety Programme: monthly data release - August 2020
  • 17 September 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Research
• Local authority green belt statistics for England: 2019 to 2020
  • 10 September 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • National statistics
• Building Safety Programme: monthly data release - July 2020
  • 13 August 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Research
• Planning Inspectorate Statistics
  • 12 August 2020
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Changing Places toilets
  • 9 September 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 22 July 2019
• Raising accessibility standards for new homes
  • 8 September 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 01 December 2020
• Planning for the future
  • 6 August 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 29 October 2020
• Changes to the current planning system
  • 5 August 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 01 October 2020
• Cladding progress of remediation: government response to the Select Committee report
  • 3 September 2020
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Building Regulations Advisory Committee members' handbook
  • 18 September 2020
  • Building Regulations Advisory Committee
  • Corporate report
• The Planning Inspectorate annual report and accounts 2019/20
  • 11 September 2020
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Corporate report
• Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: July 2020
  • 31 August 2020
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: June 2020
  • 31 July 2020
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency
• Planning Inspectorate spending over £250: May 2020
  • 30 June 2020
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Transparency

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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. Homes England
5. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
6. Cabinet Office
7. Department for Transport
8. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
9. Home Office
10. Building Regulations Advisory Committee
11. Department for Work & Pensions
12. Ministry of Defence
13. Infrastructure and Projects Authority
14. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
15. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
16. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
17. Marine Management Organisation
18. Ministry of Justice
19. Department for Education
20. Department of Health & Social Care
21. Public Health England
22. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
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

• Environment Agency
• Natural England
• Innovate UK
• HM Land Registry
• Air Accidents Investigation Branch
• Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• Forestry Commission
• Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
• Defence Equipment and Support
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
• Social Security Advisory Committee
• Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
• Marine Accident Investigation Branch
• UK Hydrographic Office

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