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Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Church on 28 March 2024.
Guidance on the content of a Development Consent Order required for a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.
Explains the process for obtaining a lawful development certificate for existing or proposed use.
As a planning authority, find out how to review applications that might affect protected sites and areas.
Guidance on various aspects of the planning system, given in letters to chief planning officers of local planning authorities.
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
Guidance on the pre-application stage for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
Provides an introduction to National Infrastructure Planning Guidance.
Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it's processed.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
If your site is in the Development High Risk Area, for most forms of development you must submit a Coal Mining Risk Assessment to your Local Planning Authority.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.
Guidance on plan-making.
Guidance to support local planning authorities in preparing and publishing brownfield land registers.
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.
Overview of case details, documents, key dates and how to make a representation.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
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