A Farmer's Guide to the Planning System - ARCHIVE: Defra

SOURCES OF FURTHER ADVICE
You can obtain further advice from a variety of sources including:
• Your local planning authority – contact your local council offices
• The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister {www.odpm.gov.uk}
• The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs {www.defra.gov.uk}
• The Countryside Agency {www.countryside.gov.uk}
• English Nature {www.english-nature.org.uk}
• The Forestry Commission {www.forestry.gov.uk}
• The Small Business Service {www.sbs.gov.uk}
• National Farmers’ Union {www.nfu.org.uk}
• Country Land and Business Association
• Your Regional Development Agency
• National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux or your local Citizens Advice Bureau
• Planning or agricultural consultants, architects, surveyors etc. (See Yellow Pages, or contact
professional bodies such as the Royal Town Planning Institute, British Institute of Agricultural
Consultants, Royal Institute of British Architects, or the Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors).
The following free publications may be of assistance:
• Planning Permission – A Guide for Businesses 1
• Planning: A Guide for Householders 1
• Outdoor Advertisements and Signs: A Guide for Advertisers 1
• Making your planning appeal (Planning Inspectorate) 3
• Enforcement Notice Appeals - A Guide to Procedure (Planning Inspectorate) 3
• Local Plans and Unitary Development Plans: A guide to procedures 1
• Lawful Development Certificates - A Users Guide 1
• Environmental Impact Assessment – a guide to procedures (ODPM web site) 2
• England Rural Development Programme - publicity (DEFRA) 4
• The Rural Enterprise Scheme (MAFF) 4 (Also see RES Guidance Notes for Applicants Parts 1 and
2) (DEFRA) 4
• What you should know about Sites of Special Scientific Interest (English Nature) 5
• Protected Trees – A Guide to Tree Preservation Procedures 1
1 Available from Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, PO Box 236, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7NB
Tel: 0870 1226 236 (e-mail: odpm@twoten.press.net)
2 See the Department’s web site: www.planning.odpm.gov.uk/index.htm
3 Available from The Planning Inspectorate, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Temple Quay, Bristol BS1 6PN.
Tel: 0117 372 6372 Web site: www.planning-inspectorate.gov.uk
4 Available from (MAFF)/DEFRA Publications, Admail 6000, London SW1A 2XX Tel: 08459 556000 – or DEFRA local
offices, or the DEFRA website: www.defra.gov.uk
5 Available from TwoTen Ltd., English Nature, PO Box 1995, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7XX Tel: 0870 1214 177
(e-mail: english-nature@twoten.press.net), or from the English Nature web site – see above.
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