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Guidance on various aspects of the planning system, given in letters to chief planning officers of local planning authorities.
We support professional planners and planning inspectors, most of whom work in the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Planning Inspectorate. Government Planning Profession is part of the Civil Service .
Outline of the design approach taken to various aspects of the baseline designs
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
Provides guidance on cost recovery by the Planning Inspectorate and public authorities enabled by Regulation 2A and Regulation 12A of the Infrastructure Planning (Fees) Regulations 2010.
Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.
Guidance from DCMS on how museums, galleries and other public buildings can prepare for an emergency or disaster.
Guidance on the content of a Development Consent Order required for a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
This collection brings together all the guidance and information from the Planning Inspectorate
Explains how conditions attached to a planning permission should be used and discharged effectively
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
Collects documents relating to the revision of the National Planning Policy Framework published 24 July 2018 and updated 19 February 2019.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Information for post-16 providers considering expressing an interest to deliver the construction; design, surveying and planning T Level in 2020 to 2021 academic year.
Our plan for undertaking landlord inspections.
The government introduced a number of measures through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 to incentivise the prompt build-out of housing sites. This update outlines recent progress in the implementation of these measures and next steps.
This collection brings together all the notes on neighbourhood planning.
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