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  • Guidance notes and form for completing the 2011 to 2012 local authority housing statistics.

  • The guidance sets out the Government’s policy, application assessment criteria and process timetable for issuing capitalisation directions to…

  • Plain English guide on changes to the business rates retention scheme.

  • This document provides a step-by-step guide on how the business rates retention scheme will be set up and will operate.

  • This guidance note sets out the procedures for the issue of capitalisation directions by the Secretary of State for 2011 to 2012.

  • This guide makes the case for a radical shift of power from the centralised state to local communities

  • This guidance note provides advice to parish councils on holding formal prayers as part of the formal business at council meetings.

  • The Communities and Local Government Select Committee Report on retail markets recognised the need to share good practice, and recommended that…

  • The documents below describe the April 2012 changes to the Energy Performance of Buildings framework. We have taken steps to make it easier…

  • Guidance note on applying the Mobile Homes Act 1983 to local authority traveller sites; with particular reference to the requirement to provide…

  • Best value guidance for local councils: easy-read version

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • The Inspiring Communities programme, sponsored by the Department for Communities and Local Government, has been designed to raise the expectations…

  • Document showing the interview content for the English housing survey in 2008 to 2009 onwards.

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) was appointed to provide expert financial and technical support to the Department for Communities and Local…

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Guidance to help local authorities and local agencies evaluate the extent of rough sleeping in their area.

  • One of the key issues that has been identified as crucial to the viability and success of the retail market is the way in which the market itself…

  • Strategies and useful tools to help improve parades of shops.

  • This explains the numbering system that reflects inserts and deletions based on the creation, amendment or abolition of public bodies.

  • Guidance about the English indices of deprivation 2010.

  • Advice notes to support users of the English housing survey findings and data sets.