Every rule your project must meet, found for you.
Search Northern Ireland’s planning and building-control guidance, ask a question in plain English, or generate a project compliance checklist — every answer cited to the source.
Working to a specific project? Generate a compliance checklist →
Answers, with citations
Ask in plain English and get an answer that links to the exact source clause — never an unsourced guess.
Scoped to your council
Overlay a council's local development plan on the Northern Ireland-wide regulations and policy.
Project compliance checklist
Characterise a project and get the requirements that apply, grouped by work area. Try it →
The library
Search the source guidance
5 results · filtered
Control of housing in established residential areas
84NI-wide·PPS 12 Housing in Settlements
PPS 7 provides that development plans may include specific policies for the control of housing development in established residential areas, particularly those which display considerable townscape cha
dwellingsite-planningresidentialMinimum and maximum site densities for zoned housing land
85NI-wide·PPS 12 Housing in Settlements
As part of the drive to achieve an increased housing density, development plans should specify minimum site densities as a key site requirement for zoned housing land. These should however take into a
dwellingsite-planningresidentialHigher density and mixed-use development in accessible locations
86NI-wide·PPS 12 Housing in Settlements
PPS 13 indicates that town and city centres, major public transport interchanges and metropolitan transport corridors, which benefit from high quality and frequent public transport services are exampl
site-planningurbanresidentialUrban Capacity Site Survey - Key Criteria
Step 4NI-wide·PPS 12 Housing in Settlements
Undertake a site survey to identify the urban capacity sites, to inform the analysis and to inform character area assessment. Reference to a 'standard survey sheet' is recommended to ensure consistenc
site-planningresidentialSelection and Classification of Urban Capacity Sites
Step 6NI-wide·PPS 12 Housing in Settlements
Select the final urban capacity sites and make a provisional assessment of future potential, both of which will be subject to detailed consultation with key plan consultees. It is important to conside
site-planningresidential