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Advice on planning appeals and the award costs.
Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
This guide explains, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.
Use of planning obligations and process for changing obligations.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
Guidance on what complaints local authorities can consider and how they will deal with them.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
Latest average timescales for planning, enforcement and householder appeals.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Provides an introduction to National Infrastructure Planning Guidance.
Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.
This statutory guidance supports local planning authorities in England in implementing the national scheme of delegation for planning functions.
Guidance on how to settle your hedge differences without involving the local authority.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
Guidance on compulsory purchase process and a model compensation claim form for use by those affected by compulsory purchase.
Guidance on plan-making.
This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
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