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  • If you want to repay or remortgage your Help to Buy home, you may need a specialist valuation if your block of flats has certain types of external cladding.

  • Measures to ensure fire safety matters are incorporated at the planning stage for schemes involving a relevant high-rise residential building.

  • Information on freehold estates which are private and mixed tenure estates where shared areas are not owned or looked after by the local council.​

  • These easy read guides explain what SMI is and how you can apply for it.

  • This guidance explains the different approaches to constructing a driveway or other paved area that controls and reduces rainfall runoff into drains by using permeable surfaces or soakaways and rain gardens.

  • Smart meters put consumers in control of their energy use, allowing them to adopt energy efficiency measures that can help save money on their energy bills and offset price increases.

  • The map, copies of notices, documents, and statements identifying documents not published for reasons of safety or security of any premises or property or national security.

  • This page includes the Governance and Financial Viability Standard that registered providers of social housing must comply with alongside a supporting Code of Practice.

  • The Valuation Office Agency's (VOA) technical manual for the rating of business (non-domestic) property.

  • Introducing the new pre-application service for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.

  • Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.

  • Explore how we can support your organisation to deliver high quality homes and thriving places for communities across England.

  • Gives key advice on open space, sports and recreation facilities, public rights of way and the new Local Green Space designation.

  • This guidance provides an overview of what the contribution caps for qualifying leaseholders’ non-cladding remediation are and how these will work in practice.

  • Shared Ownership model leases for homes funded through Homes England’s Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) 2021 to 2026.

  • Contacting your regional Valuation Office for Council Tax and business (non-domestic) rates enquiries.

  • Details of the information held on the index map and how to apply for an official search (practice guide 10).

  • This guide explains how landlords cannot discriminate against a person from renting a property because they have children.

  • Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.

  • How local planning authorities can ensure that developers and land managers meet the requirements for biodiversity net gain (BNG).