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  2. Planning permission - Wikipedia

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    Planning permission or building permit refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions. [1] [2] House building permits, for example, are subject to building codes. There is also a "plan check" (PLCK) to check compliance with plans for the area ...

  3. Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990

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    Passim. See table of statutes at pages lvi to lix (the description of the Act 1990 c 9 as "Town and Country Planning Act" (the name of 1990 c 8) from the second column of p lvi onwards is a misprint). Richard Harwood. Planning Permission. Bloomsbury Professional. 2016. Passim. See table of statutes at p xxx. Richard Harwood. Planning Enforcement.

  4. Zoning - Wikipedia

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    The planning rules for each zone determine whether planning permission for a given development may be granted. Zoning may specify a variety of outright and conditional uses of land. It may indicate the size and dimensions of lots that land may be subdivided into, or the form and scale of buildings. These guidelines are set in order to guide ...

  5. Zoning in the United States - Wikipedia

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    These laws, written by a commission headed by Edward Bassett and signed by Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, became the blueprint for zoning in the rest of the country, partly because Bassett headed the group of planning lawyers who wrote The Standard State Zoning Enabling Act that was issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1924 and accepted ...

  6. Building code - Wikipedia

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    A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for construction objects such as buildings and non-building structures. Buildings must conform to the code to obtain planning permission, usually from a local council.

  7. Planning and zoning commission - Wikipedia

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    A planning and zoning commission is a local elected or appointed government board charged with recommending to the local town or city council the boundaries of the various original zoning districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein and any proposed amendments thereto. In addition, the Planning and Zoning Commission collects ...

  8. Building regulations in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    New rules for electrical safety in the home, the garden and its outbuildings came into effect on 1 January 2005. This part only applies to dwellings, or, in some cases, buildings that would be exempt but which take their electrical supply from a dwelling. Several government approved competent persons schemes support Part P. The current edition ...

  9. Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 - Wikipedia

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    The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (the "UCO 1987") is a Statutory Instrument, applying in England and Wales, that specifies various "Use Classes" for which planning permission is not required for a building or other land to change from one use within that class to another use within that same class.