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Descriptions and drawings of various baseline designs for primary and secondary schools
Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.
Find out what's involved in creating a plan, giving you a structured way to organise the management of woodland.
How to minimise your risk, and what to do if there's a terrorist attack.
Provides advice on when Transport Assessments and Transport Statements are required, and what they should contain.
Check out your local council's emergency plan covering major incidents like flooding, flu pandemics and transport accidents
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
This collection brings together all the guidance and information from the Planning Inspectorate
Guidance to help local councils in developing policies for renewable and low carbon energy and identifies the planning considerations.
Advises how to identify suitable mitigation and adaptation measures in the planning process to address the impacts of climate change.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Action plan for improving business opportunities for small and medium enterprises.
Find out what you should include in a heritage management plan, who to consult and the approval process for conditionally exempt properties.
Appeal a decision on a householder planning application by your local planning authority - deadlines, how to appeal and how long it takes to get a decision
Outcome Delivery Plans set out each government department’s priority outcomes and the department’s strategy for achieving them.
How the Department for International Trade (DIT) is improving opportunities for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to supply to the department.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
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