A selection of images representing communities.
The ten most recent strategies and action plans published on the planning, building and the environment site.
This document presents the Government's action plan for improving quality of place, setting out clear next steps on how the Government intends to work with its partners to deliver the ambitions set out in the strategy.
The Future of Building Control Implementation Plan and Milestone Map records progress made following our consultation of March 2008.
This document sets out the Government's strategy for improving quality of place - the way the places where we live and work are planned, designed, developed and maintained - and the steps being taken to build on recent success.
This report explains the process by which an impact based approach to householder developments has been devised, tested and refined and proposes a Householder Permitted Development Order to replace Parts 1 and 2 of the current GPDO. Published 21 May 2007.
A guide for mineral and waste planning authorities and the minerals and waste industries to implement a new fees regime for the monitoring of mining and landfill sites in England, which came into effect on 6 April 2006.
Guidance on how to carry out a sustainability appraisal for regional spatial strategy revisions and local development documents. Published November 2005.
Local development frameworks implementation study
Partial review of the regional spatial strategy for the North-West: examination in public 23rd November - 1st December: report of the panel
Regional spatial strategy for Yorkshire and the Humber to 2016 based on selective review of RPG12
This paper sets out the Government's general objectives for community involvement in planning to provide the context for the changes being made to the way that the planning system operates at national, regional and local levels. Published February 2004.