We use planning guidance to help you meet the requirements of planning policies and/or legislation, and to help developers once works begin.
Summary
This page provides a variety of guidance in the form of:
- Interim Planning Guidance notes (IPGs)
- Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs), which add detail to policies in the Local Plan.
- Development advice notes.
- Other pages on our website.
- Other trusted websites such as Planning Aid (opens in a new window) and the Planning Portal (opens in a new window).
Housing development and extensions
- Affordable housing IPG (opens in a new window)
- Extensions to dwellings (opens in a new window)
- Recreation provision on new residential developments IPG (opens in a new window)
- Homes for the elderly IPG (opens in a new window).
- Guidance for new developments waste and recycling storage and collection (opens in a new window).
Common projects
- Conservatories (opens in a new window)
- Paving your front garden (opens in a new window)
- Satellite, TV and radio antenna (opens in a new window)
- Solar panels (opens in a new window)
- Loft conversion (opens in a new window).
Building standards
- Planning Obligations SPD
- Parking for new developments (draft) IPG (opens in a new window)
- Advertisements IPG (opens in a new window)
- Building for life (opens in a new window).
Protection of wildlife, amenity and the environment
- Trees and hedges
- Nature conservation
- Landscape Character Assessment
- Green infrastructure IPG (opens in a new window)
- Community safety IPG (opens in a new window)
- Sustainable Drainage Systems SPD
Protection of the historic environment
Employment and business
- Planning guide for businesses (opens in a new window)
- Change of use (opens in a new window)
- Day nurseries (opens in a new window)
- Working from home (opens in a new window).