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This collection brings together all documents relating to dwelling stock (including vacants).
This guidance explains what the Community Infrastructure Levy is and how it operates.
Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.
Planning practice guidance on biodiversity net gain. Biodiversity net gain is a way of creating and improving biodiversity by requiring development to have a positive impact (‘net gain’) on biodiversity.
Find out what reliefs and exemptions are available for Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED).
What structural alterations are, when and how to apply for permission, how they may affect your home's value and what you owe on your equity loan.
How to take part in research to help improve buying and selling.
Guidance about meeting the building regulations, given by decisions on disputes made by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
This glossary of terms has been created to aid leaseholders and residents to understand wording used in the Building Safety Fund guidance and Leaseholder and Resident Service.
Provides guidance on making effective use of land, including planning for higher density development.
The programme was established to make sure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe – and feel safe – now, and in the future.
Residential Property Tribunal Decision of Judge Ian Holdsworth FRICS & Mr Duncan Jagger FRICS on 4 April 2023
The government is committed to improving the quality of social housing in England. In response to the tragic death of 2-year-old Awaab Ishak, we are reforming the sector so that every tenant has a decent, safe and secure home. We...
The scheme enables eligible households to purchase a leasehold interest (‘share’) in their current social home on similar terms and at a similar cost to if they had purchased their Grenfell home through the statutory Right to Buy scheme.
VAT rates for building work, including plumbers, plasterers and carpenters - new houses and flats, work for disabled people, energy saving, grant-funded heating, conversions and renovations, properties that are not homes
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document O, which sets standards for reducing overheating risk in new residential buildings.
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