The Communities and Local Government Department has published guidance, which outlines the new procedures for the validation of planning applications by local planning authorities; provides guidance on the scope of material that should be supplied with planning applications; and outlines the benefits of 'validation checklists' in helping local planning authorities to achieve good performance and providng local planning authorities and applicants with greater certainity as to the nature and extent of information required in order to validate applications. This document replaces Best Practice Guidance on the Validation of Planning Applications (March 2005) and the draft guidance published in August 2007.

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Tags: Planning, Guidance

This Thematic Review of housing association progress towards the Decent Home Standard (DHS), looks at the data that housing associations supply about DHS performance. It carries out an in-depth analysis of one set of data, the statistics from the Regulatory and Statistical Return (RSR). Data have been scrutinised in order to reach a conclusion about whether housing association claims stand up. The conclusion that the data indicates is that they do.

Tags: Perfomance Management, Planning

This action plan outlines the Department for Transport's priorities for the future, coming out of the department's Capability Review assessment.

Tags: Policy, Planning, Transformation

This page on the Communities and Local Government website gives links to information about the reform of the planning system, including the planning white paper and associated documents, the review of planning enforcement and the spatial plans in practice project.

Tags: Planning