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The ten most recent manuals, leaflets and booklets published on the planning, building and the environment site.

• Greener homes for the future

  This leaflet highlights what the Code is, how it works and what it means to have a mandatory rating for new homes.

  • Added:  14 May 2008
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets

• Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) and Non-dwellings: A guide for building owners, landlords and tenants

  This leaflet contains advice on the requirements for commercial buildings to have Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs).

  • Added:  31 March 2008
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets

• Improving the energy efficiency of our homes and buildings: Energy Certificates and air-conditioning inspections for buildings

  This booklet gives advice on the range of initiatives being introduced by January 2009 to help improve the energy efficiency of our buildings and meet the UK's carbon emissions.

  • Added:  1 March 2008
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance

• Planning: A Guide for Householders

  This booklet gives a simplified guide to those aspects of the planning system which the householder is most likely to encounter. Revised version published February 2008.

  • Added:  28 February 2008
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance

• A Householder's Planning Guide for the Installation of Antennas, including Satellite Dishes

  This booklet is an outline of the planning regulations for antennas in England, and includes the Government's statement of good practice on where to place antennas, including satellite dishes.

  • Added:  12 February 2008
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance; Manuals leaflets and booklets

• Termite Eradication Programme at Saunton North Devon: Annual progress report - January 2008

  This is an seventeenth information leaflet published to inform the local inhabitants of Saunton, North Devon, on the progress of the termite eradication programme.

  • Added:  31 January 2008
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Reports and summaries

• A guide for businesses: Reducing the energy usage and carbon emissions from your heating and hot water systems

  This booklet gives businesses advice on heating and hot water systems and their controls, it covers boilers, space heating systems, water heaters and hot water systems.

  • Added:  1 October 2007
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance

• Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) and New Homes: A Builder's Guide

  From 6 April 2008 it will be law to provide an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) for all new and newly built homes that are completed after that date. This booklet gives advice on the requirements for new homes.

  • Added:  1 October 2007
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance

• Manual for Streets

  This document provides guidance for practitioners involved in the planning, design, provision and approval of new residential streets, and modifications to existing ones. Published March 2007.

  • Added:  29 March 2007
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets; Good practice and guidance

• Over the garden hedge

  A leaflet on how to settle your hedge differences without involving the local authority. This process must be attempted before a complaint can be made to your local authority. Revised version published March 2005.

  • Added:  19 January 2007
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment
  • Type(s): Manuals leaflets and booklets