Community services: coronavirus

Guidance and services

• Creating safer public places: coronavirus
  Guidance for owners and operators of public places to keep people safe when restrictions are relaxed and urban spaces become busier.
• Public rights of way and access land closures
  How new laws require some public rights of way and access land to be closed
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): planning conditions
  Guidance for planning authorities on retail deliveries during the coronavirus outbreak.
• Public rights of way and access to land (coronavirus): guidance for landowners
  We have introduced new legislation to limit the risk of spreading the coronavirus (COVID-19) virus.
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): updated guidance to planning authorities
  What the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020 mean for maintaining planning services.
• Coronavirus: guidance to planning authorities
  How we expect local planning authorities to maintain services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Building regulations during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: guidance
  Guidance on the application of the building regulations during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
• Emergency permitted development rights for coronavirus
  Guidance to local planning authorities on new permitted development rights for coronavirus.
• Amendments to pre-application consultation procedures, community council consultation and Developments of National Significance
  Guidance to local planning authorities and developers in response to the challenges presented by coronavirus (COVID-19).
• Guidance for telecommunications infrastructure deployment: coronavirus (COVID-19)
  Guidance for providers of telecommunications infrastructure in Wales during the COVID-19 outbreak.
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Local Development Plan (LDP) preparation
  Explains how local planning authorities should consider LDP preparation during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Coronavirus: new permitted development rights for health service bodies
  Enables NHS bodies to change the use of a building or land to support their response to coronavirus.
• Providing safer toilets for public use: coronavirus
  Guidance for the safe management of toilets used by the public during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Planning policy: COVID-19 recovery
  Priorities for the planning system following the coronavirus pandemic.
• Relaxing planning conditions to support economic recovery: guidance
  Guidance for planning authorities on the relaxing of construction operating hours, the use of caravan parks and hospitality uses in town centres.
• Safe use of multi-purpose community centres (COVID-19)
  Guidance on the reopening and safe use of multi-purpose community centres.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• The Planning Applications (Temporary Modifications and Disapplication) (Wales) (Coronavirus) Order 2020: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  How the Planning Applications Order 2020 may impact on different areas.