Planning policy and guidance: energy

Guidance and services

• Renewable energy projects: update to local planning authorities
• Designing for Renewable Energy in Wales
• Best and most versatile agricultural land and solar PV arrays
• Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (circular 8/77)
• Planning control over oil and gas operations (circular 3/85)
• Electricity generating stations and overhead lines (circular 20/90)
• Pipelines Act 1962 (circular 178/76)
• Assessing wind turbine noise
• Onshore unconventional gas and oil development (CL-04-14)
• Planning implications of renewable and low carbon energy development: practice guidance
• Energy policies in local development plans
• Community renewable energy projects
• Local development plans: guidance on renewable and low carbon energy
• Renewable and low carbon energy in buildings: practice guidance
• Limiting large scale wind farms to seven areas

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

• Permitted development rights and small-scale, low risk hydropower
  Report
• Assessment of on-shore wind and solar energy potential in Wales
  Report
• Summary of on-shore wind farms (2018)
  Report
• Local authority zero carbon barriers
  Report
• Renewable and low carbon energy in buildings: case studies
  Case study
• Planning implications of renewable and low carbon energy development
  Report
• Planning for renewable and low carbon energy: recommendations report
  Report
• Onshore wind power: strategic search area reassessment and validation
  Report
• Unconventional oil and gas extraction policy update in 2017
  Policy and strategy
• Waste planning case study: integrated waste management facility
  Case study
• Waste planning case study: gasification
  Case study
• Permitted development rights and non-domestic solar photovoltaic and thermal panels
  Report
• Evaluation of consenting performance of renewable energy schemes
  Report
• Review of wind farm developer interest
  Report
• Facilitating planning for renewable energy: review of final report
  Report
• Facilitating planning for renewable energy
  Report