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Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Guidance on promoting healthy and safe communities.
Information on the government’s Long-Term Plan for Towns, which will provide long-term investment in 55 towns to be spent on local people’s priorities such as regenerating local high streets and town centres or securing public safety.
Provides guidance on planning for retail and other town centre uses.
Guidance on plan-making.
This sets out the place selection methodology for the extension to Long-Term Plan for Towns.
Information and guidance on registering land as a town or village green.
Fifty-five towns given £20 million endowment-style funds each over 10 years to invest in local people’s priorities.
Foresight project looking at the implications of demographic change for the UK government.
Sets out the process for efficient and inclusive consultation of planning applications
The What Works Network uses evidence to improve the design and delivery of public services.
This is a toolkit to inform policy making for Towns Boards in Wales, as part of the Long-Term Plan for Towns.
Sets out method for assessing housing and economic land availability.
Foresight project which looked at the opportunities and challenges facing UK cities over the next 50 years.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Information about how local authorities use open data to stimulate growth and innovation, save costs and develop more sustainable transport.
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