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		Government Planning Policy
PPS	PPG	MPS	MPG	RSS
PPS 1-Delivering Sustainable Development (PDF) PPS 3-Housing (PDF) PPS 4-Planning for Sustainable Economic Growth (PDF) PPS 5-Planning for the Historic Environment (PDF) PPS 6-Planning for Town Centres (PDF) - replaced by PPS4 PPS 7-Sustainable Development in Rural Areas (PDF) PPS 9-Biodiversity and Geological Conservation (PDF) PPS 10-Planning for Sustainable Waste Management (PDF) PPS 11-Regional Spatial Strategies (PDF) PPS 12-Local Spatial Planning (PDF) PPS 12-Local Development Frameworks (PDF) PPS 22-Renewable energy. (PDF) PPS 23- Planning and Pollution Control (PDF) PPS 25-Development and Flood Risk (PDF)	PPG1- General Policy / Principle (PDF) - replaced by PPS1 PPG2 -Green Belts (PDF) PPG3 - Housing (PDF) replaced by PPS3 PPG4 - Industrial, Commercial Development and Small Firms (PDF) - replaced by PPS4 PPG5 - Simplified Planning Zones (PDF) - replaced by PPS4 PPG6 - Town Centre and Retail Development (PDF) -replaced by PPS6 PPG7 - The Countryside (PDF) (25Mb) - replaced by PPS7 PPG 8 -Telecommunications (PDF) PPG9 - Nature Conservation (PDF) - replaced by PPS9 PPG10 - Planning and Waste Management (PDF) - replaced by PPS10 PPG11 - Regional Planning (PDF) - replaced by PPS11 PPG12 - Development Plans (PDF) - replaced by PPS12 PPG13 - Transport (PDF) PPG14 - Development on Unstable Land (PDF) PPG15 - Planning and Historic Environment (PDF) - replaced by PPS5 PPG16 - Archaeology and Planning (PDF) - replaced by PPS5 PPG17 - Planning for Open Space Sport / Recreation (PDF) PPG18 - Enforcing Planning Control (PDF) PPG19 - Outdoor Advertising Control (PDF) PPG20 - Coastal Planning (PDF) PPG21 - Tourism (PDF) - replaced by Good Practice Guide PPG 24 - Planning and Noise (PDF) PPG25 - Development and Flood Risk (PDF) - replaced by PPS25	MPS1 - Planning Minerals (PDF) MPS1 - Practice Guide (PDF) MPS2 - Controlling & Mitigating the Environmental Effects of Minerals Extraction in England (PDF) MPS2 - Annex 1 - Dust (PDF) MPS2 - Annex 2 - Noise (PDF)	MPG 1: General considerations (PDF) - replaced by MPS1 MPG2: Applications, permissions and conditions (PDF) - part replaced by Annexes 1and 2 of MPS2 MPG 3: Coal mining and colliery spoil disposal (PDF) - part replaced by Annexes 1and 2 of MPS2 MPG 4:Revocation, modification, discontinuance, prohibition and suspension orders (PDF) MPG 5: Stability in surface mineral workings and tips (PDF) MPG 6: Guidelines for aggregates provision in England (PDF) - replaced by MPS1 and its Annex MPG 7: Reclamation of mineral workings (PDF) MPG 8 Interim development order permissions (IDOS): statutory provisions and procedures. Published September 1991. (PDF) MPG 9: Planning and Compensation Act 1991: interim development order permissions (IDOS): conditions. (PDF) MPG 10: Provision of raw material for the cement industry (PDF) MPG 11: Control of noise at surface mineral workings (PDF) - replaced by Annex 2 of MPS2 MPG13: Guidelines for peat provision in England (PDF) MPG 14: Environment Act 1995: review of mineral planning permissions (PDF) MPG 15: Provision of silica sand in England (PDF)	East Midlands Regional Plan (March 2009) (PDF) East Midlands Regional Waste Strategy (PDF) Superseded East Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy 8 (March 2005) (PDF)

Government Guidance

Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 1519 - The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990

Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 418 - General Permitted Development Order 1995

Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 419 - General Development Procedure 1995

Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 293 - Environmental Impact Assessment 1999

Circular 02/1999 - Environmental Impact Assessment (Word doc)

Circular 01/2006 - Guidance Changes to the Development Control System (PDF)

Good Practice Guide on Planning for Tourism (PDF)

Farmers Guide to the Planning System (PDF)

Districts	Government	Statutory Bodies / Consultees	General
Blaby District Council Charnwood Borough Council Harborough District Council Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council Melton Borough Council North West Leicestershire District Council Oadby & Wigston Borough Council	DCLG Defra Development Agency Government Office for the East Midlands Parsol Planning Inspectorate Planning Portal Regional Assembly	Anglian Water CABE East Midlands Airport English Heritage Environment Agency Forestry Commission Health and Safety Executive Highways Agency Leicestershire Wildlife Trust National Forest Natural England Severn Trent Water Sport England	After Minerals CPRE Good Quarry Sustainable Cities

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