Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides

WAG: Guidance for local planning authorities & developers to deliver sustainable buildings through the planning system has been announced by Environment Minister, Jane Davidson. The Technical Advice Note 22 (TAN 22) Planning for Sustainable Buildings sets out the Assembly Government’s planning guidance to support the planning policy published in 2009, which set a minimum standard for sustainability for most new buildings proposed in Wales.
Press release ~ Technical Advice Note 22 (TAN 22) Planning for Sustainable Buildings
 
HMRCHM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has launched a series of new online videos to help tax credit claimants through the annual renewal process. Every year, claimants must renew their tax credit awards by 31 July, or their payments stop.
Press release ~ Renew your Tax Credits
 
HSE: Farmers are being warned not to use semi-automatic quick hitches if they are missing a retaining pin, following a spate of fatal accidents in other industries. The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has previously issued a warning to the construction industry after 5 deaths in less than 5 years.  It is now urging all of those working with or alongside excavators to check their equipment regularly to avoid serious injury.
Press release ~ Safety Alert on quick hitches ~ www.hse.gov.uk/construction
 
HFEA: It is estimated that around 1 in 6 couples (approximately 3.5m people) experience some form of fertility problems at some point in their lives.  To help anyone considering treatment, and those going through treatment, the UK fertility regulator (HFEA) has published a new Getting Started guide.
Press release ~ HFEA: Getting Started - Your Guide to Fertility Treatment ~ Infertility Network UK
 
CRC: The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) have published ‘How to help people into employment in rural areas’ as part of their ‘How to’ guides for local authorities & their partners.  Part of their series of guides for tackling worklessness, it draws extensively on 2 reports produced for the CRC – Rural Financial Poverty: priorities for action and Working in 21st Century Rural England.
Press release ~ How to help people into employment in rural areas ~ Rural Financial Poverty: priorities for action ~ Working in 21st Century Rural England
 
EH: Small & medium-sized towns, suburbs, villages & hamlets, historic town centres, and other local areas will benefit from undertaking historic area assessments in the face of increasing pace of change, says English Heritage, which has published guidance (Understanding Place: Historic Area Assessment - Principles and Practice) to help local authorities & others to conduct such assessments – See ‘In the News’ section for more information.
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