A selection of images representing communities.
The ten most recent reports and summaries published on the planning, building and the environment site.
This publication documents the approved methodologies that can be used to produce Energy Performance Cerfiticates and Display Energy Certificates.
Response to the Government's consultation paper on proposals to streamline procedures associated with tree preservation orders (TPOs) in England.
This report provides the outcome of an evidence gathering exercise which was undertaken to review the problems caused by high concentrations of houses in multiple occupation.
This final report summarises the comments received from stakeholders and provides some recommendations regarding the usability of the current building regulations and approved documents.
This report summarises building thermal performance requirements in a number of European countries and classifies them according to the approach taken.The regulations are compared to each other and contrasted with United Kingdom building codes.
The report is structured around individual hazards in buildings, ordered by their relative importance in terms of risk of harm in or around dwellings. It includes the full text of the revised previously published BRE report BR417.
This checklist shows at a glance how local planning authorities were reaching decisions on planning applications in the year ending March 2008.
Research undertaken for the Department by Cyril Sweett Ltd to assess the costs and benefits of the Government's proposals to reduce the carbon footprint of new housing development in support of zero carbon homes policy.
This is an eighteenth information leaflet published to inform the local inhabitants of Saunton, North Devon, on the progress of the termite eradication programme.
Report reviewing the benefits and impacts of the Construction Products Directive, and establishing the benefits or otherwise of non-obligatory CE marking, providing evidence to underpin future policy development.
Read our white paper detailing proposals for reform of the planning system.