Planning policy and guidance for professionals

Guidance and services

• Technical advice notes
• Planning circulars
• Planning circular letters
• Dear Chief Planning Officer (CPO) letters
• Development management manual
• Developments of national significance: summary of changes
• Timely use of enforcement powers
• Environmental impact assessment for town and country planning: summary of changes
• Planning appeals, costs, standard daily amounts and compulsory purchase orders
• Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (Commencement Orders 1 and 2)
• Planning performance framework and sustainable development indicators
• Planning performance framework measures
• Calling-in planning applications: guidance
• Referring planning applications to the Welsh Ministers
• Emergency permitted development rights for coronavirus
• Coronavirus: new permitted development rights for health service bodies

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

• Planning policy Wales
  Policy and strategy
• Research to inform the review of the planning enforcement system
  Report
• Delivery of planning services in statutory designated landscapes
  Report
• Five year review and evaluation of the planning research programme
  Report
• A new approach to managing development
  Report
• Public attitudes towards the planning system
  Report
• The categorisation of uses and management of change: a planning review
  Report
• Towards a Welsh Planning Act: ensuring the planning system delivers
  Report
• Thresholds and criteria for developments of national significance
  Report
• A strategic monitoring framework for the planning system
  Report
• Exploring methods for the identification of strategic planning areas: final report
  Report
• Review and evaluation of the development control monitoring process
  Report
• Quantification of infrastructure and business and commercial planning applications
  Report
• Review of land use planning indicators: final report
  Report
• Research into the operation of planning committees
  Report
• Evaluation of the processes used to develop national planning policy
  Report
• The cost of infrastructure development in Wales
  Report
• Draft National Development Framework 2020 to 2040
  Collection
• Planning prospectus overview
  Policy and strategy
• The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2020
  Legislation
• Impact assessments for the Planning (Wales) Bill
  Collection
• Planning policy prospectus
  Policy and strategy
• Development plan prospectus
  Policy and strategy
• Planning policy: COVID-19 recovery
  Policy and strategy
• Planning (Wales) Act 2015: explanatory memorandum
  Policy and strategy
• Planning decisions being considered by the Welsh Ministers
  Report
• Land use planning research scoping study
  Report
• Interim response to the Law Commission report on planning law in Wales
  Policy and strategy
• Detailed response to the Law Commission report on planning law in Wales
  Policy and strategy
• Future Wales: the national plan 2040
  Collection
• Research into the cost of delivering a Development Management service in Wales
  Report
• Plan to improve the planning system (positive planning implementation plan)
  Policy and strategy