Planning Policy
Planning Policy / Policy library

The policy library

361 clauses of planning policy, held verbatim and linked to their official sources — the same corpus every Planning Policy report quotes from. Nothing here is paraphrased: what you read is what the document says.

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

The government’s planning policies for England and how they are expected to be applied — every numbered paragraph, verbatim, by chapter.

18 chapters · captured June 2026

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Greater London Authority

The London Plan 2021

The spatial development strategy for Greater London — part of the statutory development plan for all 33 boroughs. Every policy, verbatim.

111 policies · captured June 2026

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Permitted development rights for householders — technical guidance

The official guidance on what householders can build without a planning application — Classes A to G, verbatim. Designations like conservation areas and Article 4 directions narrow these rights.

7 classes · captured June 2026

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Official sources

The places that matter

We always link to the official record — these are the primary sources behind the library and behind every report.

Apply it to your address

Policy is general. Your property isn’t.

A Planning Policy report selects the policies that bear on your project at your address, quotes them verbatim, and reads them against live designation data and real nearby decisions.

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