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Sets out process and expectations on planning performance and decision making.
Latest average timescales for planning, enforcement and householder appeals.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
This guide explains, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.
The responsibilities of each party and the roles they have in the planning appeal process.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
Guidance on plan-making.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Guidance on what complaints local authorities can consider and how they will deal with them.
The Local Plan examination process and the role the Planning Inspectorate plays.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
Provides further detail on First Homes and their implementation.
Guidance on how to settle your hedge differences without involving the local authority.
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.
This list of commonly used terms is intended to assist persons who are affected by an application under the Planning Act 2008 who may be unfamiliar with the language used to describe aspects of the process.
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
Sets out process and expectations on pre-application discussions.
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