Lawful development certificates

Planning Practice Guidance

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2014
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Current

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Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning

Series

Planning Practice Guidance

Abstract

Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on obtaining a lawful development certificate for existing or proposed use. Covers: establishing whether a proposed or existing development is lawful; definition of lawfulness and its limits; application and determination procedure; content of a certificate; conditions, appeals, revocation and status of pre-1992 certificates.

History

Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/lawful-development-certificates and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 6 March 2014.

Subjects

  • Planning control
  • Planning control, England
  • Planning and development

Publisher History

Now known as the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) was a UK Government department with responsibility for communities throughout the UK, with local investment supporting growth, creating jobs, delivering housing, overseeing local government, planning and building safety. They were previously known as the MHCLG, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.

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