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Planning newsletter
Publication Year
2024
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Provides an update on government planning activities. Covers: updated approach to 'Pragmatism' in local plan examinations; transitional arrangements for local plans; new homes accelerator programme call for sites; statistics on access to green space in England; new advice on adapting historic buildings for energy and carbon efficiency from Historic England; biodiversity net gain; Office for Place update; Planning Casework Unit (PCU) contact details; Natural England signals new approach and launches improved SSSI impact risk zones tool for planners; and new resources for design codes.
Document History
Dated: 13 September 2024.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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.
2 Marsham Street
London
MHCLG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government
