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Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Explores the relationship between development control and property development, including housebuilding and develops possible alternatives to the current system of development control. Three alternatives are discussed: co-regulation whereby developers and planners agree an over-riding code of practice in a designated locality; a 'positive planning' approach of combined planning and permission; and a greater use of restrictive covenants in property titles, either for designated land or built structures, limiting in perpetuity what can be built or redeveloped.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is now known as the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). Their publications included the Building Regulations Approved Documents, Planning Policy Guidance Notes, and technical reports and fact sheets covering a wide range of subjects within the built environment.
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