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DocumentAmendments Booklet AMD 7 2022 (Booklets B C E) 58Amendments Booklet AMD 8 2022 (Booklet R) 6Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R) 152BMAP 2015 Volume 1 Plan Strategy and Framework 1LDP 2030 Plan Strategy (adopted 2025) 934LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023) 917PPS 10 Telecommunications 115PPS 11 Planning and Waste Management 173PPS 12 Housing in Settlements 213PPS 12 Policy HS3 Amended Travellers Accommodation 7PPS 13 Transportation and Land Use 107PPS 15 Planning and Flood Risk (Revised) 261PPS 16 Tourism 124PPS 17 Control of Outdoor Advertisements 91PPS 2 Natural Heritage 57PPS 21 Sustainable Development in the Countryside 156PPS 23 Enabling Development for the Conservation of Significant Places 26PPS 3 Access Movement and Parking 110PPS 3 Access Movement and Parking (Clarification) 12PPS 4 Clarification of Policy PED 7 9PPS 4 Planning and Economic Development 117PPS 6 Addendum Areas of Townscape Character 33PPS 6 Planning Archaeology and the Built Heritage 245PPS 7 Addendum Residential Extensions and Alterations 87PPS 7 Addendum Safeguarding the Character of Established Residential Areas 71PPS 7 Quality Residential Environments 97PPS 8 Open Space Sport and Outdoor Recreation 119SPG Affordable Housing 119SPG001 Affordable Housing and Housing Mix 221SPG002 Development Viability 149SPG003 Residential Design 239SPG004 Residential Extensions and Alterations 147SPG005 Placemaking and Urban Design 123SPG006 Tall Buildings 78SPG007 Masterplanning Approach for Major Development 68SPG008 Advertising and Signage 103SPG009 Retail and Main Town Centre Uses 116SPG010 Loss of Zoned Employment Land 38SPG011 Evening and Night time Economy 35SPG012 Sensitive Uses 129SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025) 501Technical Booklet B Materials and Workmanship 48Technical Booklet C Site Preparation and Resistance to Contaminants and Moisture 136Technical Booklet D Structure 255Technical Booklet E Fire Safety 612Technical Booklet F1 Conservation of Fuel and Power in Dwellings 293Technical Booklet F2 Conservation of Fuel and Power in Buildings Other Than Dwellings 312Technical Booklet G Resistance to the Passage of Sound 549Technical Booklet H Stairs Ramps Guarding and Protection from Impact 155Technical Booklet J Solid Waste in Buildings 28Technical Booklet K Ventilation 366Technical Booklet L Combustion Appliances and Fuel Storage Systems 335Technical Booklet M Physical Infrastructure for High Speed Communications Networks 46Technical Booklet N Drainage 109Technical Booklet P Sanitary Appliances Unvented Hot Water Storage and Scalding 56Technical Booklet R Access to and Use of Buildings 282Technical Booklet V Glazing 63
Topicsite-planning 3356dwelling 3019non-domestic 2279commercial 1016fire-safety 956conservation 869energy 814external-space 774sound 623flats 600accessibility 588access 584rural 539drainage 480ventilation 449structural 368industrial 325means-of-escape 317open-space 312public-building 309flood-risk 250high-rise 173stairs 166hrb 158glazing 146protection-from-falling 142affordable-housing 127combustion-appliances 125coastal 124retail 123heritage 121tourism 119residential 110planning 110waste-management 107ramps 69built-heritage 68design 65environmental-protection 60listed-building 58
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