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The ten most recent legislation and policy documents published on the planning, building and the environment site.

• Planning Act 2008: Procedures for revoking or making changes to development consent orders for nationally significant infrastructure projects: Consultation - Summary of responses

  This document provides a summary of the responses to the consultation and explains how the Government has taken those comments into account in finalising the procedures and the regulations in which they are set out.

  • Added:  13 April 2012
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Consultation responses; Legislation and policy

• Main changes to the tree preservation order system in England from 6 April 2012

  A summary of the main changes brought about by the Tree and Country Planning (Tree Preservation) (England) Regulations 2012.

  • Added:  11 April 2012
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Legislation and policy; Good practice and guidance

• Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Transfer of Compulsory Purchase Orders and Land Disposal Work to National Planning Casework Unit

  Letter to local authorities updating them on changes to the arrangements for handling compulsory purchase and land disposal work to the National Planning Casework Unit.

  • Added:  11 April 2012
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Circular and official letters; Legislation and policy

• Letter to Chief Planning Officers: Sensitive Information in Planning Applications

  Letter to local planning authorities confirming the arrangements for dealing with sensitive information in planning applications as set out in the Department's letter to Chief Planning Officers of 24 May 2007.

  • Added:  4 April 2012
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Circular and official letters; Legislation and policy

• Letter to Chief Planning Officers: New planning provisions coming into force on 6 April 2012

  Letter to local authorities informing them about new planning provisions that came into force on 6 April 2012 on neighbourhood planning, permitted development rights and the Development Management Procedure Order.

  • Added:  4 April 2012
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Circular and official letters; Legislation and policy

• Changes to the Energy Performance of Buildings Framework

  This guidance describes the April 2012 changes to the Energy Performance of Buildings framework.

  • Added:  2 April 2012
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance; Legislation and policy

• Tree preservation orders: proposals for streamlining - Government response to the consultation

  This document summarises the responses to the consultation on Tree preservation orders: proposals for streamlining, and identifies the changes to the draft proposals that the Government has decided to make in taking forward the legislation.

  • Added:  30 March 2012
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Consultation responses; Legislation and policy

• Planning policy for traveller sites: Impact assessment

  The Government published its new planning policy for traveller sites on 23 March 2012. This is the final impact assessment for the new policy.

  • Added:  27 March 2012
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Impact assessments; Legislation and policy

• Planning policy for traveller sites: Equality impact assessment

  The Government published its new planning policy for traveller sites on 23 March 2012. This is the final equality impact assessment for the new policy.

  • Added:  27 March 2012
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Impact assessments; Legislation and policy

• Local planning regulations: Consultation - Summary of responses

  This document provides a summary of the representations made in response to the consultation on revised regulations, which govern the process by which local councils prepare their development plans, and the Government's response to the points raised.

  • Added:  27 March 2012
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Consultation responses; Legislation and policy