Section documents

• TCPA 1990 s215 Best Practice Guidance
• Compulsory Purchase: Rates of Interest After Entry
• Community Involvement in Planning: Government Objectives
• An introduction to EIAs
• A farmer's guide to the planning system
• Best practice guidance on validation of applications (with checklists)
• Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive: Guidance
• Amendments to permitted development rights for telecoms development
• Note on environmental impact assessment directive for local planning authorities
• Best value indicators for planning
• Best value performance indicator - quality of service checklist
• Compulsory purchase procedure manual
• Installation of satellite TV dishes: householder's planning guide
• Local plans and unitary development plans: guide to procedures
• Outdoor advertisements and signs: a guide for advertisers
• Planning: a guide for householders
• Planning and development briefs: a guide to better practice
• Planning application fees
• Planning Factsheet 1: Privacy and Overlooking
• Planning Factsheet 2: External Lighting
• Planning Factsheet 3: Overshadowing
• Planning permission: a guide for business

Planning practice

• Circulars
• Good Practice Guides
• Marine minerals
• Minerals
• Parliamentary answers
• Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) (formerly Regional Planning Guidance (RPG))
• TPOs - intro
• Use Classes Order

PPGs

• PPG 2: Green belts
• PPG 3: Housing
• PPG 4: Industrial, commercial development and small firms
• PPG 5: Simplified planning zones
• PPG 8: Telecommunications
• PPG 12: Development plans
• PPG 13: Transport
• PPG 14: Development on unstable land
• PPG 15: Planning and the historic environment
• PPG 16: Archaeology and planning
• PPG 17: Planning for open space, sport and recreation
• PPG 18: Enforcing planning control
• PPG 19: Outdoor advertisement control
• PPG 20: Coastal planning
• PPG 24: Planning and noise

Planning Policy Statements

• PPS1: Delivering Sustainable Development
• PPS6: Planning for Town Centres
• PPS7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas
• PPS9: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation
• PPS10: Planning for Sustainable Waste Management
• PPS11: Regional Spatial Strategies
• PPS12: Local Development Frameworks
• PPS22: Renewable energy
• PPS23: Planning and Pollution Control
• PPS25: Development and Flood Risk

Planning guidance & advice

• Better places to live by design: companion guide to PPG3
• Compulsory purchase and compensation booklets
• Lighting in the countryside
• Living places: urban renaissance in the South East
• Making plans: good practice in plan preparation
• Mobile phone network development: code of best practice
• Regional Aggregate Working Parties
• Urban design in the planning system
• Valuing the external benefits of undeveloped land