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  • A guide explaining how the planning system in England works.

  • Overview of the main measures of the Localism Act 2011.

  • How can local authorities demonstrate leadership and create a strategy to encourage investment in digital infrastructure?

  • The statutory and policy criteria councils must meet in order to obtain the Secretary of State’s consent to dispose of allotment land.

  • This guidance provides further explanation of the legislative framework for the Community Right to Challenge.

  • This guide is aimed at helping community groups conserve or create community orchards.

  • Guidance for community groups wanting to start a food growing project.

  • A prospectus for a pilot of a simpler approach to neighbourhood planning and a bidding fund for local planning authorities in under-represented areas.

  • A guide giving an overview of the planning system for those considering opening a free school.

  • Guidance on how to submit proposals under the Sustainable Communities Act and barrier busting process.

  • Guidance note on applying the Mobile Homes Act 1983 to local authority traveller sites; with particular reference to the requirement to provide…

  • This guide makes the case for a radical shift of power from the centralised state to local communities

  • Guidance setting out the potential funding available to community and voluntary organisations.

  • This guide summarises the range of community rights opportunities available to people.

  • Information on how to get involved in your local community and getting access to green spaces.

  • Case studies featuring people around England planting and tending to orchards in their local communities.

  • This explains the numbering system that reflects inserts and deletions based on the creation, amendment or abolition of public bodies.

  • E-flyer explaining details of the Community Right to Build

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • This guidance provides clarity on pooling and aligning budgets and on related issues often cited as difficult. It brings together current experience…