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Advice on planning appeals and the award costs.
Introducing the new pre-application service for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
The responsibilities of each party and the roles they have in the planning appeal process.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Guidance on plan-making.
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
The Local Plan examination process and the role the Planning Inspectorate plays.
Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Guidance explaining why compulsory purchase orders are made, and what people's rights are to challenge them.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Sets out process and expectations on pre-application discussions.
This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
Provides further detail on First Homes and their implementation.
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