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  • Use this service to apply to become a registered building inspector in England and Wales with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), and pay your annual maintenance charge.

  • Maps showing potential heat network zones in England based on early outputs from heat network zone modelling.

  • Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document S, which sets standards for installation of electric vehicle charge points or cable routes.

  • A checklist to help you apply to repay your equity loan in part or in full.

  • Advice about applications to be sent to HM Land Registry to register transactions involving charities (practice guide 14).

  • This guidance summarises the types of defects to which the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 apply.

  • Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.

  • If you're building homes for sale or rent, we can provide finance from £250,000 to cover development costs.

  • Guidance on use of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of any appeal, application or examination being dealt with by the Planning Inspectorate.

  • A booklet to help people assess whether an evergreen hedge is blocking too much daylight and sunlight to neighbouring properties.

  • Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.

  • Use this service to submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report for higher-risk buildings to the BSR.

  • How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.

  • Information about acquiring easements by prescription (practice guide 52).

  • How biodiversity net gain (BNG) applies to irreplaceable habitat.

  • Rules on how tribunal cases are dealt with in the Property Chamber, including residential property disputes.

  • Information about the use of statements of truth in support of applications to HM Land Registry (practice guide 73).

  • A template designed to be used by local planning authorities when notifying interested parties of planning appeals.

  • Guidance for conveyancers on overseas entities (practice guide 78).

  • How Business e-services customers (lenders) can discharge a mortgage through the portal.