Collection Planning circulars Planning guidance issued as a circular. Part of: National planning policy (Sub-topic) and Planning policy and guidance: national policy (Sub-topic) First published: 23 August 1968 Last updated: 16 October 2023 Documents Caravan Sites Act 1968 (circular 42/68) 23 August 1968 Guidance Planning Inquiry Commissions (circular 59/68) 9 December 1968 Guidance Town and Country Planning (Minerals) Regulations 1971 (circular 69/71) 12 August 1971 Guidance Post Office Operational Land Regulations 1973 (circular 48/73) 13 March 1973 Guidance Smells from animal waste processing: guidance for local authorities (circular 17/76) 7 May 1976 Guidance Pipelines Act 1962 (circular 178/76) 3 December 1976 Guidance Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (circular 8/77) 31 January 1977 Guidance Report of the mobile homes review (circular 9/78) 31 January 1978 Guidance Trees and forestry (circular 64/78) 3 May 1978 Guidance Report on the committee on planning control over mineral working (circular 103/78) 14 August 1978 Report Inner Urban Areas Act 1978 (circular 136/78) 2 November 1978 Guidance Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980: various provisions (circular 13/81) 28 April 1981 Guidance Purchase notices (circular 22/83) 27 April 1983 Guidance Planning control over oil and gas operations (circular 3/85) 15 January 1985 Guidance Guidelines for the provision of silica sand (circular 58/85) 5 November 1985 Guidance Mineral workings: legal aspects relating to restoration of sites with high water tables (circular 60/85) 18 November 1985 Guidance Housing and Planning Act 1986: planning provisions (circular 57/86) 17 December 1986 Guidance Development of contaminated land (circular 22/87) 17 August 1987 Guidance Use of waste material for road fill (circular 36/87) 7 August 1987 Guidance Landfill sites: development control (circular 38/89) 26 July 1989 Guidance Electricity generating stations and overhead lines (circular 20/90) 26 September 1990 Guidance Planning and Compensation Act 1991: new development plan system (circular 71/91) 18 December 1991 Guidance Land compensation code and compulsory purchase procedures (circular 50/91) 4 September 1991 Guidance Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (circular 44/91) 15 August 1991 Guidance Advertisements planning guidance (circular 14/92) 23 March 1992 Guidance The Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992 (circular 39/92) 13 July 1992 Guidance Indicative forestry strategies (circular 61/92) 15 December 1992 Guidance Environmental Protection Act 1990, Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 and The Framework Directive on Waste (circular 26/94) 19 April 1994 Guidance Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (circular 70/94) 9 September 1994 Guidance General Development Order Consolidation 1995 (circular 29/95) 24 May 1995 Guidance Recovery of costs for public path and railway crossing orders (circular 47/96) 22 November 1996 Guidance Planning obligations (circular 13/97) 8 July 1997 Guidance Enforcing planning control: legislative provisions and procedural requirements (circular 24/97) 31 December 1997 Guidance Planning for future prison development (circular 17/98) 5 June 1998 Guidance Planning: guidance on environmental impact assessments (circular 11/99) 30 June 1999 Guidance Local development orders: guidance for local planning authorities (circular 003/2012) 30 April 2012 Guidance Referring planning applications to the Welsh Ministers (circular 07/12) 30 July 2012 Guidance The use of planning conditions for development management (WGC 016/2014) 7 October 2014 Guidance Planning for Gypsy, Traveller and showpeople sites (WGC 005/2018) 26 June 2018 Guidance Planning requirements for private sewerage in new development (WGC 008/2018) 3 July 2018 Guidance Referring planning applications for major residential development to Welsh Ministers (Direction and Circular 001/2020) 15 January 2020 Guidance Compulsory Purchase in Wales and 'The Crichel Down Rules (Wales Version 2020)' (Circular 003/2019) 28 September 2021 Guidance Safeguarding aerodromes, technical sites and military explosive storage areas Direction 2002 (direction and circular 01/2003) 8 December 2021 Guidance The HyNet Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Safeguarded Site (Wales) Direction 2023 16 October 2023 Guidance
