Planning obligations: good practice advice

Publication Year

2025

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides advice on planning obligations, covering: justifying the need for the planning obligation, format of the planning obligation, parties to the planning obligation, content of the planning obligation, requirements imposed by unilateral undertakings, modifying or discharging planning obligations, planning obligations and the provision of affordable housing, and planning obligations for pooled contributions/tariffs.

Document History

Last updated: 5 February 2025 - References to the Model s106 obligations by the Law Society has been removed as it is outdated. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-obligations-good-practice-advice/planning-obligations-good-practice-advice and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 21 April 2022.

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