Planning policy and guidance: green infrastructure

Guidance and services

• The Conservation (Natural Habitats etc) Regulations 1994 (CL-05-04)
  The requirements of the conservation regulations when considering development proposals.
• Biodiversity enhancements: guidance for heads of planning
  Guidance for heads of planning on securing biodiversity enhancements as part of a development proposal.
• The sale of rural plots and land use planning consequences (CL-11-04)
  Potential remedies to the problem of subdivision and sale of small plots of agricultural land and woodland.
• Allotments and community growing: guidance for landowners
  Sharing and increasing good practice to enable people to grow their own food.
• Agricultural land classification reports
  Letter to local planning authorities about our agricultural land classification report validation service.
• Allotments and community growing: guidance for local authorities, town and community councils
  Sharing and increasing good practice to enable people to grow their own food.
• European protected species licence and planning permission
  Local planning authorities use this notice when a development requires a European protected species licence.
• Planning for sustainable buildings (CL-03-14)
  Letter outlining policy changes and amendments to the planning for sustainable buildings policy.
• Development of contaminated land (circular 22/87)
  Guidance on the identification, assessment and development of contaminated land.
• Allotments and community growing: guidance for growers and growing groups
  Sharing and increasing good practice to enable you to grow your own food.
• Recovery of costs for public path and railway crossing orders (circular 47/96)
  Guidance on administrative costs for public path and rail crossing orders.
• Technical advice note (TAN) 5: nature conservation and planning
  How the land use planning system should contribute to biodiversity and geological conservation.
• Trees and forestry (circular 64/78)
  Advice on tree planting and the preservation of trees and woodlands.
• Technical advice note (TAN) 10: tree preservation orders
  Guidance for local planning authorities on tree preservation when granting planning permission.
• Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (circular 8/77)
  Summary of the main points covered by the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976.
• Netting of trees and hedgerows during construction
  Guidance on the use of netting on trees and hedgerows during building work.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Green Infrastructure Assessments, protected species and permitted development rights: local authority questionnaire - privacy notice
  Policy and strategy
  Explains how we will use your data and how long we will keep it for.
• Trial in 2014 of collecting planning data for sustainable development indicators
  Policy and strategy
  Asks planning authorities to help with a trial of data collection for sustainable development indicators.
• A strategic monitoring framework for the planning system
  Report
  Research to find the best way to measure the sustainable development outcomes of the planning system.