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As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
Local Plan policies provide an important framework to guide development proposals and aid decision-making for garden communities.
At an early stage in your project, you should explore the mechanisms and options available for delivery of your garden community.
Information about how to develop a planning permission strategy for your garden community.
Engaging the local community and stakeholders can create a garden community plan with roots in the local context.
How to successfully guide the development by creating a clear vision for your garden community.
To deliver a successful garden community you’ll need long-term support, local leadership, partnership and financial backing.
Delivering infrastructure can unlock development of a garden community and provide some of the building blocks for a successful new community.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Masterplanning is integral to creating well-planned and designed garden communities.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the flower-rich margins and plots option.
Governance creates good collaborative working and effective decision-making among public and private sector partners and stakeholders.
The process of capturing some of the increase in land value which comes from policy decisions, the granting of planning permission by local authorities, or as a consequence of new or improved, publicly funded infrastructure projects.
Find out about government guidance on viability and how to manage it in your planning process.
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
Information about how to plan, design and develop a new garden community.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
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