A local planning authority (LPA) is the local government body that is empowered by law to exercise urban planning functions for a particular area. They...

development plan sets out a local authority's policies and proposals for land use in their area. The term is usually used in the United Kingdom. A local plan is...

and facilities. Local authorities cover the entirety of England, and are responsible for services such as education, transport, planning applications, and...

A local development framework is the spatial planning strategy introduced in England and Wales by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and given...

Secretary of State determines a planning application. Ideally, the plan should be prepared as advice to the local planning authority on highway and transport...

application for planning permission be required. An application for planning permission should be made to the local planning authority (LPA). LPAs are...

Local education authorities (LEAs) were defined in England and Wales as the local councils responsible for education within their jurisdictions. The term...

secure planning permission from the local authority, with provision to appeal against refusal. It introduced a development charge to capture the planning gain...

Planning gains (or planning obligations) are ways that local authorities in the United Kingdom can secure additional public benefits from developers, during...

(central, state, and local government) and defines local governments as "institutional units whose fiscal, legislative, and executive authority extends over the...

return spatial planning powers to local government. These plans include the withdrawal of funding to the existing eight local authority leaders' boards...

(officially, local authority districts, abbreviated LADs) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government. As...

Authority Act 2007. It is a strategic regional authority, with powers over transport, policing, economic development, and fire and emergency planning...

Local government in Scotland comprises thirty-two local authorities, commonly referred to as councils. Each council provides public services, including...

that grants planning permission for certain types of development without the requirement for approval from the local planning authority (such development...

formerly known by its expanded acronym, the Local Authorities Pension Plan, is the largest pension plan in Alberta and the seventh largest in Canada...

A unitary authority is a type of local authority in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Unitary authorities are responsible for all local government functions...

be demolished, extended, or altered without permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency...

responsible for urban well-being, housing, local government, town planning, country planning, fire and rescue authority, landscape, solid waste management, strata...

A combined authority (CA) is a type of local government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Local Democracy, Economic Development...

local planning authorities by or under the planning Acts shall be exercisable both by county planning authorities and district planning authorities."...

administrative authority for Greater Manchester for the first time since the abolition of Greater Manchester County Council in 1986. The planning policies of...

areas do not appear since they are designated by the relevant local planning authority. The passage of the Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882 established...

Local government in Wales is primarily undertaken by the twenty-two principal councils. The councils are unitary authorities, meaning they are responsible...

regional economic policy, development, monitoring, and planning. DEPDev also oversees the planning and approval of large-scale government projects, assists...

planning committee in the United Kingdom is a committee of local authority councillors that sit as the local planning authority to determine planning...

Authority (LCRCA) is the combined authority of the Liverpool City Region in England. Its jurisdiction includes the City of Liverpool local authority area...

billing, libraries, social services, town planning, waste collection and disposal, and it is a local education authority. Since 2016 the council has been a member...

purpose IRDA will adopt a Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) for use by such local planning authorities. A Bill to incorporate the IRDA was tabled in and...

The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) was a functional body of the Greater London Authority (GLA) from 2000 to 2018. It was established...