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      <title>Help the planning application determination process</title>
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      <description>The Scottish Government has set up a Proportionality Short life Working Group to focus on the issue of provision of information to accompany planning applications.</description>
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      <title>Important Update: New Building Warrant Fees Effective from 1st April 2025</title>
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      <title>SIC Publishes Planning Advice Note 14</title>
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