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Services

1. Public Request to Order Disposal

   This form helps people to exercise their rights under the Community Right to Reclaim Land to bring disused property back into beneficial use.

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Guidance and regulation

1. Plain English guide to the planning system
   • Guidance
   • 5 January 2015
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
2. Localism Act 2011: overview
   • Guidance
   • 15 November 2011
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
3. Allotment disposal guidance: safeguards and alternatives
   • Statutory guidance
   • 30 January 2014
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
4. Community Right to Challenge: statutory guidance
   • Statutory guidance
   • 27 June 2012
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
5. Sustainable Communities Act and barrier busting
   • Guidance
   • 12 September 2016
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

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News and communications

13 September 2018 — Press release

More funding to boost services in village pubs and bring communities together

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

1. Government commits to further support for neighbourhood planning
   • 19 March 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Press release
2. How LEPs can build the local foundations for a global Britain
   • 28 March 2017
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Speech
3. Landmark 6,000 of community rights reached this Communities Week
   • 20 March 2017
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • News story
4. New landmark with 200 communities now approving Neighbourhood Plans
   • 11 July 2016
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Press release

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Research and statistics

1. Participatory budgeting in England: final report
   • 22 September 2011
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Implementation of neighbourhood planning provisions in the Neighbourhood Planning Bill
   • 15 December 2016
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 19 October 2016
2. Improving the use of planning conditions
   • 15 December 2016
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 02 November 2016
3. Devolution - the next 5 years and beyond: government response to CLG Select Committee report
   • 26 May 2016
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Policy paper
4. Greater Lincolnshire devolution deal
   • 16 March 2016
   • HM Treasury
   • Policy paper
5. Liverpool devolution deal
   • 16 March 2016
   • HM Treasury
   • Policy paper

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Organisations

1. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
2. HM Treasury
3. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Cabinet Office

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1. Department for Education
2. Department for Transport
3. Department for Work & Pensions
4. Department of Health & Social Care
5. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
6. Home Office
7. Ministry of Justice
8. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons

1. Environment Agency