PPS3 Housing

Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3) underpins the delivery of the Government’s strategic housing policy objectives and our goal to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to live in a decent home, which they can afford in a community where they want to live.

PPS3 replaces Planning Policy Guidance 3: Housing (PPG3) which was published in March 2000.

View 'Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing' here

Related documents:

• Residential Car Parking Research - This research considers expected levels of car ownership and the factors which have a significant influence on car ownership and car parking demand.
• Planning for Housing: Market Signals - Summary of Research - This report follows the proposal that local and regional planning should be more responsive to market signals in allocating and releasing land for housing.
• Housing Market Information: Advice Note - This advice note sets out an approach that regional planning bodies and local planning authorities can use to develop their understanding of housing markets.
• Planning Policy Statement 3: Regulatory Impact Assessment
• Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing - Equality Impact Assessment - This assessment considers PPS3 policies from the perspective of how it may affect different groups in society, and whether the policies could have a disproportionate effect on any groups.
• Identifying sub-regional housing market areas: Advice note - This advice note advocates local authorities working together on the basis of sub-regional housing market areas to prepare the evidence base and for policy development purposes.
• Strategic Housing Market Assessments: Practice Guidance - This practice guidance sets out a framework that local authorities and regional bodies can follow to develop a good understanding of how housing markets operate.
• PPS3 Update: Cancellation of Greenfield and Density Directions - From 1 April 2007, Government Offices will no longer have to notify the Secretary of State of planning applications that previously fell within the scope of the Directions.
• Better Places to Live by Design: A Companion Guide to PPG3 - This guide draws together the principles of good urban design as they relate to the residential environment to help move the practice of good design forward.