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• GPG01A - Design Bulletin 32 - Residential Roads and Footpaths

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Roads and footpaths are an integral part of the residential environment. DB32 describes the main considerations that should be taken into account in the design of residential road and footpath layouts. The advice in this bulletin should be read in conjunction with the DB32 Companion Guide 'Places, Streets and Movement
• GPG01B - Places, Streets & Movement. A companion guide to Design Bulletin 32. Residential roads and footpaths

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A good practice companion guide to Design Bulletin 32, the Government�s existing planning advice to local authorities and developers, describing the main considerations that should be taken into account in laying out roads and footpaths in residential developments. It shows how these considerations can be applied in ways that create sustainable and well-designed residential areas. The guide aims to promote earlier and greater attention to urban design, place more emphasis on people and communities and move away from overly prescriptive standards.
• GPG05 Telecommunications Prior Approval Procedures (as applied to mast/tower development)
• GPG10 - Lighting in the Countryside: Towards Good Practice

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Published jointly with the then Countryside Commission. Advice (also relevant in towns) on good lighting types and installations for street, sports and security lighting. How to avoid light pollution of the night sky, glare hazards to drivers and nuisance to neighbours. Design guidance. Useful bibliography.
• GPG11 - European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP)
• GPG12 - Planning for Rural Diversification

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The Government's planning policies for the countryside seek to encourage economic activity in rural areas while continuing to protect and conserve countryside resources. The Guide explains how local authorities can more fully implement the guidance in PPG7 The Countryside and the Rural Economy (1992), for diversifying the rural economy.
• GPG13 - Development Plans: A Good Practice Guide

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Development plans are of central importance to the town planning system in England and Wales. The legislative framework for development plans is in Part II of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended by the 1991 Act) and in the Regulations. Government policy on development plans is mainly to be found in PPG12, which advises on the form and content of plans, and the procedures to be followed. This Guide complements Government policy for the new development plan system by providing practical advice to local authorities who are currently preparing development plans, and by using examples of features within existing plans that are considered good practice.
• GPG14 - Enforcing Planning Control: Good Practice Guide for Local Planning Authorities

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The guide is a response to a recommendation in the report of Robert Carnwath QC (1989) Enforcing Planning Control (ISBN 0 11 752194 9) that the Government should consider preparation of a practice manual for local planning authorities on all aspects of planning enforcement work. It covers best practice with regard to investigation, negotiation, drafting and procedure, appeals, prosecution, stop notices, injunctions, default action and other aspects of the system, and includes examples from actual cases. The guide accompanies DOE Circular 10/97 Enforcing Planning Control: Legislative Provisions and Procedural Requirements.
• GPG15 - Environmental Appraisal of Development Plans - A Good Practice Guide

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The formulation of development plans can offer local authorities the opportunity to contribute towards the goal of ensuring that development and growth are sustainable. But local authorities can only do this if they understand the environmental pressures in their area and the impact which planning decisions might have. This guide has been designed to help local planning authorities carry out environmental appraisal of plans. It offers guidance on a range of straightforward techniques and procedures which can be easily used at each stage of the plan making process, without the need for specialist staff.
• GPG16 - Evaluation of Environmental Information for Planning Projects - A Good Practice Guide

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The research which led to this guidance is intended to assist local authority decision makers in their evaluation of �environmental information� which must be taken into account when determining planning applications which are subject to an environment statement.
• GPG18 Local Development Plans and Unitary Development Plans: Best Practice

See entry for Development Plans: A Good Practice Guide.
• GPG20 Planning and Development Briefs: A Guide to Better Practice

The guide gives guidance on the preparation and use of site-specific planning and development briefs. It is aimed primarily at local planning authorities but contains advice useful to anyone involved in site-specific briefing, including land-owners, developers and interest groups.
• GPG22 Planning for Sustainable Development: Towards Better Practice

The guide aims to help planners and others understand how they can incorporate sustainable development principles into plans. It seeks to help with the implementation of the principles of sustainable development as reflected in current planning policy guidance. It draws together advice based on a wide range of experience and examples.
• GPG23 PPG 13: Guide to Better Practice (with DOT)

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A practical users manual for implementing the lessons from PPG13 - Transport. It should help local authority planners and councillors drawing up or revising their development plans and in considering individual planning applications. It should also be of benefit to developers and individuals who wish to see how the concepts in PPG13 can be translated into practice.
• GPG24 Preparation of Environmental Statements for Planning Projects That Require Environmental Assessment - A Good Practice Guide

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The guide is intended to help developers and their advisers to prepare good quality, objective Environmental Statements for projects which they have decided, or which the planning authority has directed, required Environmental Assessment - to help speed the planning decision making process. The guide sets out an advisory framework for the Environmental Assessment by the developer and provides a framework for the preparation of the Environmental Statement.
• GPG25 Proposals for a Good Practice Guide on Sustainability Appraisal of Regional Planning Guidance

The research produced guidelines for Regional Planning Bodies (RPBs) to assist them develop sustainability appraisals during their preparation of Regional Planning Guidance (RPG). The guidance is not definitive but draws on the practical experience of a wide range of practitioners, setting out the broad scope of a methodology which is logical and consistent. This includes the overall approach to appraisal methodology; appraisal criteria and stages; the importance of monitoring and evaluation; advice on baseline studies; and what RPBs need to do.
• GPG26 The One Stop Shop Approach to Development Consents

The guide provides advice to local authorities on how to provide a more co-ordinated and customer oriented approach to obtaining the consents required for a development project (such as planning permission, listed building or conservation area consent, and approval under building regulations). It identifies the main elements of a one stop shop approach and draws upon local authority practice in suggesting different ways an authority might approach the issue.
• GPG27 Vital and Viable Town Centres

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This report draws together information on trends and experience in this country and abroad so as to enable local authorities and others to make the most of their town and city centres.

• Development of the Redundant Defence Estate
• The Economic Consequences of Planning to the Business Sector
• The Environmental Costs and Benefits of the Supply of Aggregates - Phase 2
• Geographic Information : A Charter Standard Statement
  Promoting the effective use of Government Geographic Information

• Housing
  Response to the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee's Report

• Housing in the South East:
  The Inter-relationship between Supply, Demand and Land Use Policy

• The Impact of Large Foodstores on Market Towns and District Centres
  Executive Summary

• Leylandii - Briefing Note
• Modernising Planning.

• Modernising Planning. A Progress Report by the Minister of State for the Regions, Regeneration and Planning
  A Policy Statement by the Minister for the Regions, Regeneration and Planning

• One Stop Shop Approach to Development Consents

• Open Government Code of Practice

• Planning and Development Briefs: A Guide to Better Practice

• Planning for the Communities of the Future
• Planning for Sustainable Development: Towards Better Practice - Summary
• Proposals for a Good Practice Guide on Sustainability Appraisal of Regional Planning Guidance
• Regional Planning Guidance Targets and Indicators: Scoping Study
• DETRCLET1 Addition of the Forestry Commission to the list of Non-Statutory Consultees.

Explains the circumstances in which the Forestry Commission should be consulted over planning proposals.
• DETRCLET2 Local Government Act 1972 General Disposal Consents 1998

Explains the circumstances in which local authorities have a general consent to dispose of land.
• DOECLET2 Pre-School Education

Issued in connection with the now defunct Nursery Voucher Scheme. However, paragraphs on Common Considerations in Nursery Applications still contain relevant guidance.
• MISC01 Disposal of Surplus Government Land: The Crichel Down Rules

As amended by Annex to memorandum accompanying Treasury DAO letter 11/96. (The rules are being re-examined in the current fundamental review of compulsory purchase.)
• MISC03 Guidelines for the Joint Working of Ministry of Defence and Regional Government Offices on the Disposal of Surplus MOD Property

These interim guidelines are being reviewed in the light of research conducted for DETR and MOD by Fuller Peiser and the University of Reading.
• MISC04 European Spatial Development Perspective

Agreed by EU Planning Ministers, the ESDP provides a non-binding framework for national and regional planning in the 15 EU Member States
• MISC05 Progress towards the goals of the Habitat Agenda in the UK

Report to 17th session of the UN Commission on Human Settlements
• MISC06 Planning applications in connection with the desruction of wastes arising from the slaughter of cattle under the over thirty months scheme

letter sent to the Chief Planning Officers of all local planning authorities. Hard copy available, free of charge, on request.
• MISC07 Structure plans - A guide to Procedures
• MISC08 Local Plans and Unitary Development Plans - A Guide to procedures

• PQ01 Answer to Parliamentary Question in the House of Commons, Hansard Vol. 302, Col 401-402 (application of PPG6 to existing retail and leisure facilities)
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Date last published 5 December 1997
Clarifies that policy in PPG6 applies equally to extensions to existing facilities.
• PQ03 Answer to Parliamentary Question in the House of Commons, Hansard Vol. 325, Col 309-310 (need for retail and leisure material Planning consideration)

Date last published 11 February 1999
Clarifies when the need for key town centre uses is material in determining a planning application.
• PQ05 Answer to Parliamentary Question in the House of Commons, Hansard Col 138 (call-in policy statement)

Date last published 16 June 1999
Statement of policy on calling in planning applications under section 77 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
• PQ07 Answer to Parliamentary Question in the House of Commons, Hansard Vol 333 No 103, Column 87 (planning and renewable energy)

Date last published June 1999
Planning Minister, Richard Caborn said ' the Planning System has an important role in helping to deliver the Governments's target and goals for renewable energy and climate change�'Re-emphasises Government's commitment to policy contained in PPG22
• PQ08 Answer to Parliamentary Question in the House of Commons, Hansard, 31 March 1999, Col 762 (Planning appeal procedures: announcement of Government's conclusions on streamlining appeal procedures).

Date last published 31 March 1999
Mr Caborn in answer to Ian Steward MP (Eccles)
• STATE01 Modernising Planning - A Policy Statement by the Minister for the Regions, Regeneration and Planning

Date last published January 1998
Policy document setting out the Government's proposals for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the planning system
• STATE02 Planning for the Communities of the Future, CM3885

Date last published February 1998
Policy document setting out the Government's approach to accommodating the expected growth in new households in the period up to 2016.
• STATE03 Modernising Planning - A progress report

Date last published April 1999
Further description of the Government's key policy objectives for the planning system, with detailed progress report on initiatives begun in 1998.

RTPI PRACTICE GUIDANCE NOTES

• UDPs and LOCAL PLANS: MODIFICATIONS AND ADOPTION

A statement by the RTPI Development Planning Panel for the guidance of local authority planning officers in England and Wales
• Development Plans: List of available Good Practice Guidance
• PAN 6 Enforcement of Planning Control
• PAN 8 Development Briefs
• PAN 9 Development Control
• PAN 11 Personal safety at meetings and site visits
• PAN 12 Planning for women
• PAN 13 Environmental Assessment
• PCAN 1 Continuing Professional Development
• Research Agenda: Women and Planning
• Translation of written material into ethnic minority laguages
• Planning authorities and racist representations
• Fees and terms of engagement: a guide for consultant members

RTPI Discussion Papers

• DEVELOPMENT PLAN TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT:A SCOPING REPORT

• RADICAL REVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN SYSTEM IN ENGLAND: PROCESS AND PROCEDURES

• Briefing Note No 8, 30 July 1999
  Environmental Policy

• Briefing Note No 7, 29 June 1999
  Structural Actions 2000-2006
  The Financial Perspective
  Regional Policy
  Rural Development
  European Elections
  Finland's Presidency
  Publications

• Briefing Note No 6, 13 May 1999
  UK's new European Commissioner
  The new Community Initiatives
  Recent Development

• Briefing Note No 5, 28 April 1999
  Agenda 2000 CAP Reform - The 1999 Agreement