Below you can find a list of our publications that we have produced over the last few years. Some of them are quite old now, but still contain information that is useful. They are ordered by subject area.
Conditions for councillors crib sheet
In order to be enforceable planning conditions have to first be lawful. We created this short note to help you to ensure that any conditions that you suggest in committee or when advising your communities are fit for the job.
How planning works: an introduction for councillors
The guide was developed after the publication of the National Planning Policy Framework, to help councillors understand how planning impacts their ward and how they could use planning to help their communities address local issues.
Local Development Orders: Technical Advice on preparing an LDO
We produced a thorough technical guide on local development orders to help you through each step of the process. There's a checklist included, as well as signposts to relevant legislation to ensure that your council's final LDO is legally compliant.
LDOs for housing developments
We used the experiences of the PAS housing LDO pilots to develop this advice note on how to go about creating an LDO to encourage development to come forward.
Ideas for LDO projects & Top Tips
LDOs are an existing legislative tool. They are flexible and consistent with local determination, part of a move to remove bureaucracy and redefine the issues where planning really makes a contribution to the local area. LDOs are a means for the planning system to incentivise development in a way that meets a whole range of locally specific policy objectives.
Report into the use, value for money and effectiveness of Local Development Orders in implementing Local Authority objectives
In January 2014 we carried out a piece of research that looks into the range of LDOs that have been prepared throughout the country
LDOs and Localism: Can local development orders contribute to the new planning agenda?
April 2011 report of the research that looks into the range of LDOs that have been prepared throughout the country
Planning on the Doorstep: The Big Issues – Green Belt
This advice note looks at the reality of plan-making and the Green Belt, how planning process works with Green Belt issues and the potential inclusion in development plans.
Planning on the Doorstep: The Big Issues – Money
This advice note describes payments available for councils who deliver growth and details how local authorities can map these payments to inform their planning decision making.
Planning on the Doorstep: The Big Issues – Population
This advice note looks at how population projections are formulated and used, exploring how they are a vital evidence base for the formulation of planning and other work that the council does across a wide range of services.
Planning on the Doorstep: The Big Issues – Rural Housing
This advice note looks at the challenge facing local authorities is to deliver the right amount of rural housing, the right type of rural housing and in the right place for an area.
A steps approach to infrastructure planning and delivery
This approach offered a way in which people in local authorities and Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) could work together to achieve the right level of infrastructure delivery.
Pre-application self assessment questionnaire
At our 2014/15 "Worthwhile Pre-application" events PAS were asked if we could make something that would go alongside the Pre-apps Suite to help you to kick start a process of reviewing your service.
10 commitments for effective pre-application engagement
These 10 commitments are about the way that LPAs, developers and statutory consultees all work together at the pre-application stage. They are a commitment from all parties to do things differently/more effectively. Design your services along these lines and talk to your applicants about doing the same.
The Pre-application Suite
We've pulled together a suite of tools and guidance that we think you will find useful.
Monitoring that matters: towards a better AMR
This document will help authorities get clarity on the purpose and value of monitoring and reporting and consider how they might do it.