Document Status
Current
Supplement
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Series
Letters to Chief Planning Officers
Abstract
Provides an update on government planning activities. Covers: guidance on design; design workshops with local authorities; EU exit preparedness; Community Infrastructure Levy regulations and planning practice guidance; district level licensing for great crested newts; new joint guidance on flood risk emergency plans for new development; neighbourhood planning research; digital: permitted development rights for 5G infrastructure; advice for local authorities on non-mains drainage from non-major development; airport noise guidance; the Environment Bill; and 2019 housing delivery test results.
History
Dated October 2019.
Subjects
- Planning and development
Publisher History
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.