Policy, guidance and law resources for planning
Services providing access to guidance on law, policy and procedures for planning and the environment.
Best Practices Database
Best Practices Database
This searchable web database from the Together Foundation and UN-Habitat contains proven solutions to common urban problems facing the world's cities today. These include poverty, access to land, clean water, population, shelter and transportation.
British Standards Online
Provides the full text of all British Standards. Updated daily. Contains over 38,500 current, draft and withdrawn standards.
Complete Planning Law Service
The Complete Planning Law Service
Networked CD-ROM
Provides historical coverage of planning law and practice up to the year 2001. It includes the full contents of:
- The Town and Country Planning Act 1990
- European Legislation
- Statutory Instruments
- Circulars
- Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPGs)
- Mineral Policy Guidance Notes (MPGs)
- Relevant Welsh guidance documents including Technical Advice Notes and Regional Planning Guidance (RPG)
- J.P.L Planning Law Case Reports
Croner's Environmental Policy and Procedures
Printed reference guide and CD-ROM available in the Bute Library.
Covers information and requirements for implementing and maintaining an Environmental Management System (EMS).
Development Control Practice Online
Development Control Practice Online
Regularly updated service providing commentary on the factors involved in making decisions on planning applications. It sets out those areas of planning law that are in regular use and explains how they have been interpreted.
Encyclopaedia of Planning Law and Practice
Updated monthly, this details relevant Government legislation, and gives the text of Housing Corporation and Housing Department circulars. Bute Ref. 347.34E.
Environmental Management
Printed reference guide and CD-ROM available in the Bute Library.
Covers UK and EU environmental law, environmental policy for business and industry, pollution control, waste management and land use planning.
Handicap Architecture and Design
Standalone CD-ROM available in the Architecture Library or Bute Library
Primarily focuses on the adaptation of buildings and products to enhance mobility and equality for wheelchair users. Published by the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark, the CD-ROM includes video clips, animations and drawings to illustrate problems and possible solutions.
isurv
isurv is provided by the RICS. It includes the RICS practice standards, case studies and commentary on building surveying, planning, rural matters, sustainability, commercial property and valuation.
isurv is only available on-campus
Planning and Development Service
Standalone CD-ROM available in the Bute Library.
An important source of guidance and up-to-date technical information for all aspects of planning information which is updated quarterly by RIBA. The service includes all relevant legislation covering:
- town and country planning
- development
- conservation
- the environment
Policy guidance notes, Department of the Environment circulars, Appeals Decision Letters and Statistics are also recorded.
Practice Online (formerly known as Housing Manual)
Published by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), this is a key source of guidance for housing organisations in England, Wales and Scotland. The Manual includes relevant legal information, performance indicators and standards on topics such as tenancy management, homelessness and home ownership as well as advice on the development of policies and procedures.
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