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  • Mandatory information required from leaseholders and current landlords

    This guidance explains the information required to complete the leaseholder deed of certificate, and what information your current landlord must provide in the landlord’s certificate.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Find a high-rise residential building

    Find out what information the Building Safety Regulator holds in its register of high-rise residential buildings, and how you can access that information.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Technical housing standards – nationally described space standard

    This document sets out the government’s new nationally described space standard.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Structure: Approved Document A

    Building regulation in England covering the structural elements of a building.

    • From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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  • Fees for planning applications

    Fees guidance: explains planning related fees and the method of calculating them.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Lawful development certificates

    Explains the process for obtaining a lawful development certificate for existing or proposed use.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Enforcement and post-permission matters

    Responding to suspected breaches of planning control.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Criteria for determining whether a building is a higher-risk building during the occupation phase of the new higher-risk regime

    This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)…

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Flood risk and coastal change

    Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Environmental Impact Assessment

    Explains requirements of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • General binding rules: small sewage discharge to the ground

    How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Use of planning conditions

    Explains how conditions attached to a planning permission should be used and discharged effectively

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Determining a planning application

    Sets out process and expectations on planning performance and decision making.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Definition of ‘relevant building’

    The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 only apply to “relevant buildings.” This guidance explains what is meant by that term.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Resistance to sound: Approved Document E

    Building regulation in England for the resistance to the passage of sound and sound insulation.

    • From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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  • Electrical safety: Approved Document P

    Building Regulation in England covering electrical safety in dwellings.

    • From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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  • Overheating: Approved Document O

    Building regulation in England setting standards for overheating in new residential buildings.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Qualifying date, qualifying lease and extent

    This guidance clarifies the extent (or location) to which the leaseholder protections apply. It also explains what is meant by qualifying date and qualifying lease.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Competent person scheme - current schemes and how schemes are authorised

    Find out about current competent person schemes to self-certify certain types of building work if you work in building as an installer.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Register a biodiversity gain site

    Find out what to do and how much it costs to register a biodiversity gain site.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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