Guidance and regulation

Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 5 February 2024

What you need to do as a developer to meet biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 February 2024

Use of planning obligations and process for changing obligations.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 1 September 2019

Anyone in England can use this service to contact the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 31 January 2024

The prices of statutory biodiversity credits from the date biodiversity net gain (BNG) becomes mandatory.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 February 2024

Building regulation for England addressing hot water safety and efficiency of water in buildings.

• From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Updated: 9 March 2016

Latest average timescales for planning, enforcement and householder appeals.

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Updated: 25 April 2024

Building regulation in England for the condition of the ground upon which a building is to be built.

• From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Updated: 3 September 2013

Sets out the process for efficient and inclusive consultation of planning applications

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 1 April 2022

How local planning authorities can ensure that developers and land managers meet the requirements for biodiversity net gain (BNG). 

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 8 May 2024

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

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 2 October 2023

Guidance explaining why compulsory purchase orders are made, and what people's rights are to challenge them.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 17 December 2021

Use this guidance to understand the role, legal responsibilities and how to register as a building inspector in England and Wales.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 14 March 2024

When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 27 May 2022

Building regulation in England for the storage of fuel systems and combustion products.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 30 September 2022

Understand your duties as a responsible person under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 25 October 2023

This guidance provides leaseholders with a plain English explanation of the implications of the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 18 October 2022

The circumstances when your Council Tax band might change, including alterations and similar properties in the area being rebanded.

• From: Valuation Office Agency
• Updated: 28 January 2020

Responsibilities of the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building’s safety case report.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 2 April 2024

Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 26 July 2023