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Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
Responding to suspected breaches of planning control.
Advises how to identify suitable mitigation and adaptation measures in the planning process to address the impacts of climate change.
Sets out special provisions for Crown development for dealing with security-sensitive information in planning applications.
Guidance to help local councils in developing policies for renewable and low carbon energy and identifies the planning considerations.
We carry out judicial reviews of decisions made by planning authorities, and hear other challenges to planning decisions. This includes appeals and applications relating to: planning permission development consent compulsory purchase orders highways and other rights of way decisions under...
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
Sets out process and expectations on pre-application discussions.
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
Explains how conditions attached to a planning permission should be used and discharged effectively
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
Section 62A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 allows applications for planning permission and reserved matters consent to be made directly to the Secretary of State where the Local Planning Authority for the area has been designated for...
Sets out the process for efficient and inclusive consultation of planning applications
This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
Decision letters on behalf of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities about planning applications and appeals. Only applies to England.
Guidance on the National Policy Statements Review process.
Guidance on the acceptance stage for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
Provides an introduction to National Infrastructure Planning Guidance.
Check out your local council's emergency plan covering major incidents like flooding, flu pandemics and transport accidents
When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision
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