Planning policy and guidance: green infrastructure

Guidance and services

• Allotments and community led gardening: guidance
  Sharing and increasing good practice to enable you to grow your own food.
• Technical advice note (TAN) 5: nature conservation and planning
  How the land use planning system should contribute to biodiversity and geological conservation.
• Technical advice note (TAN) 10: tree preservation orders
  Guidance for local planning authorities on tree preservation when granting planning permission.
• The Conservation (Natural Habitats etc) Regulations 1994 (CL-05-04)
  The requirements of the conservation regulations when considering development proposals.
• 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.
• 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.

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

• 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.