Planning Policy Statements

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Department for Communities and Local Government

Policy Statements (PPSs) are prepared by the government after public consultation to explain statutory provisions and provide guidance to local authorities and others on planning policy and the operation of the planning system.

They also explain the relationship between planning policies and other policies which have an important bearing on issues of development and land use.

Local authorities must take their contents into account in preparing their development plans. The guidance may also be relevant to decisions on individual planning applications and appeals.

The links below take you to the government site where you can find the named policies and their companion documents, most of which are downloadable in PDF format (and sometimes other formats, such as Word).

All the policy documents can be found on their respective homepages :

Planning Policy Statements (PPS) home page
Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPG) home page

Planning Policy Statements

PPS 1: Delivering Sustainable Development(486 K)
PPS 1: Planning and Climate Change - Supplement to Planning Policy Statement 1 (434 K)
PPS 3: Housing (601 K)
PPS 6: Planning for Town Centres (350 K)
PPS 7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas (290 K)
PPS 9: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation (249 K)
PPS 10: Planning for Sustainable Waste Management (3.7 MB)
PPS 11: Regional Spatial Strategies (2.6 MB)
PPS 12: Local Spatial Planning (1.1MB)
PPS 22: Renewable energy (886 K)
PPS 23: Planning and Pollution Control (268 K)
PPS 25: Development and Flood Risk 259 K)

Planning Policy Guidance

PPG 2: Green belts (166 K)
PPG 3: Housing (357 K) (Cancelled)
PPG 4: Industrial, commercial development and small firms (59 K)
PPG 5: Simplified planning zones (65 K)
PPG 8: Telecommunications (322 K)
PPG 13: Transport (356 K)
PPG 12: Development plans (571 K)
PPG 14: Development on unstable land (83 K)
PPG 14 Planning Policy Guidance 14: Development on Unstable Land - Annex 1: Landslides and Planning (328 K)
PPG 14 Planning Policy Guidance 14: Development on Unstable Land - Annex 2: Subsidence and Planning (509 K)
PPG 15: Planning and the historic environment (272 K)
P PG 16: Archaeology and planning (258 K)
P PG 17: Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation (59 K)Planning Policy Guidance 18: Enforcing planning control (24 K)
P PG 19: Outdoor Advertisement Control (33 K)
P PG 20: Coastal planning (90 K)
PPG 24: Planning and noise (360 K)