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A Guide to Neighbourhood Planning

Allotment Disposal: safeguards and alternatives

Anti-Terror Checklist

Apprenticeships

Banking: FATCA and CRS Briefing

Borrowing Application Form

Borrowing Application Information

Case Studies: Actions & Projects from around the Country

Changing from a Parish Council to a Town Council

Climate Action Working Group Terms of Reference

Climate Resilience Policy

Co-Option

Coastal Erosion and Flodding Risk Management

Comprehensive Guidance on Data Protection Fees

Comprehensive Guidance on Website Accessibility for Local Councils

Financial Services Compensation Scheme

Flowchart to help establish flood risk

Fly Grazing & the Control of Horses

Freedom of Information Act Guidance

GAPTC Climate Action Toolkit

GAPTC Procurement Specification Brief

GCC Archives Retention of Documents

Good Councillor's Guide to Cyber Security

Good Councillors Guide to Transport Planning

Good Councillors' Guide 2024

Good Councillors' Guide to Community Business

Good Councillors' Guide to Employment

Good Councillors' Guide to Finance and Transparency

Good Councillors' Guide to Neighbourhood Planning

Green Spaces Contract Checklist

Guidance Responses to NALC Standards Survey

Guidance for writing emails

Guidance on the Community Infrastructure Levy

Guide to Making Tax Digital

How to Draft a Citation

How to Respond to a Planning Application

Hucclecote Green Guide

IT Policy

LGR and Devolution Explained

Local Council Award Scheme

Local Councils Explained

Local Councils and Youth Provision

Localism in Practice

Material Planning Considerations

Model Biodiversity Policy

Model Councillor-Officer Protocol

Model Financial Regulations

NALC Legal Topic Note: procurement

NALC Procurement Toolkit

NPPF December 2023

Parish Councils: How to Invest your Funds

Payments for Working from Home

Plain English Guide to the Planning System

Planning Explained

Points of Light 2022

Practitioner's Guide 2025

Procurement Thresholds from January 2024

Property Flodding Risk Management

Remote meetings MP lobby letter

Remote meetings template consultation responses

Riverine Floods Risk Management

Rural Communities Design Guide

Safeguarding Public Money

Statement of responsibilities of auditors and audited small bodies

Step-by-Step Guide to the AGAR

Surface Water Flooding Risk Management

Sustainable Communities Act Toolkit

Template Letter to District/Borough Councils

Tender & Quotation request template

The Voice of the Councillor

The approach to the audit of local councils

Thermal Camera User Guidance

Transparency code for 200K turnover

Transparency code for smaller authorities

Unauthorised Encampments

VAT on Digital Services from other Countries

VAT on sporting fees

Village & Community Halls

Website Accessibility Requirements

Working Group Terms of Reference_Devolution