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Services

• 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

• Plain English guide to the planning system

  Guidance

  5 January 2015

  Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

• Localism Act 2011: overview

  Guidance

  15 November 2011

  Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

• Community Right to Challenge: statutory guidance

  Statutory guidance

  27 June 2012

  Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

• Allotment disposal guidance: safeguards and alternatives
  • Statutory guidance
  • 30 January 2014
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Plain English guide to planning for free schools
  • Guidance
  • 5 January 2015
  • 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

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

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Policy papers and consultations

• 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

• Improving the use of planning conditions 15 December 2016

  Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 02 November 2016

• 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
• Greater Lincolnshire devolution deal
  • 16 March 2016
  • HM Treasury
  • Policy paper
• 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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