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Effective use of land
Publication Year
2025
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on making effective use of land. Covers: supporting more effective use of land and planning for higher density development.
Document History
Superseded by: 27 February 2025 - Updated to include additional question on how to apply paragraph 125c of the NPPF to decision making Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/effective-use-of-land 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: 22 July 2019.
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
