Guidance and leaflets

Design Statements became mandatory from 1st June 2009.

The guide is aimed at planning applicants, their advisers, and local planning authorities.

These leaflets can help householders, communities and businesses who want to generate their own renewable energy. They provide information on what should be considered when installing a renewable energy technology, planning regulations and ways that any impacts can be reduced.

This guidance sets out the revised Joint Housing Land Availability Study process for local planning authorities.

Case studies that show how people have reduced the carbon footprint of buildings by making the most of renewable and low carbon technologies.

This technical guidance can help identify how you can reduce the carbon footprint of a new building, extension or refurbishment by making the most of renewable and low carbon technologies in the design process.

This Practice Guide provides advice to applicants and local planning authorities on how to make the most of pre-application discussions.

A local development order (LDO) grants permission for a type of development specified so the developer does not need to submit planning applications.

All local planning authorities across Wales have been using the standard application form (1app) to accept electronic planning applications.

The guide is aimed at planning applicants, their advisers, and local planning authorities.

This report provides a useful summary of national requirements on local planning authorities to consult when considering a planning application.

The Planning Act 2008 allows the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (CLG), with the consent of Her Majesty’s Treasury, to make regulations providing for a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). This leaflet provides guidance on preparing a Charging Schedule for the Community Infr ...

Local planning authorities have a key role to play in facilitating renewable and low carbon energy development. This Guidance is to help local planning authorities in deciding on applications for renewable and low carbon energy developments.

Our land use planning policy guidance is set out in two core documents, "Planning Policy Wales" and "Minerals Planning Policy Wales". These documents are supported by topic based Technical Advice Notes (Wales) (TANs). Circulars and Circular letters provide advice and guidance on specific topics.

We have prepared this Toolkit to assist local planning officers and others produce renewable energy assessments in support of their local development plans.

This guidance update supplements the July 2008 Practice Guidance. It looks at how local authorities can use the planning process to facilitate and bring forward development, whilst ensuring that they continue to deliver the maximum possible amount of affordable housing during the economic downturn.

In May 2009 the Assembly Government published a new Ministerial Interim Planning Policy Statement (01/2009) ‘Planning for Sustainable Buildings’. The MIPPS details an innovative national planning policy which sets out minimum levels of sustainability for new buildings in Wales that are part of a ne ...

The Welsh Assembly Government provided a grant to the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Cymru to deliver regional training workshops. The focus of these workshops was ‘Planning for Climate Change: Delivering Sustainable Buildings and Quality Design’.

A guide to help Gypsies and Travellers plan their caravan sites.

A practical guide for Householders.

This Practice Guidance to Section 106 Agreements is a tool to support local planning authorities (LPAs) in delivering more affordable housing through the planning system.

Download our guide on climate change and home improvements.

Manual for Streets provides guidance for practitioners involved in the planning, design, provision and approval of new residential streets, and modifications to existing ones.

From 7 June 2006, following new legislation, the Planning Acts apply to the Crown, subject to some exceptions. The Crown has previously been immune from the planning system. Crown bodies now, in general, have to apply for planning permission for development in a similar way to other applicants.

This guidance explains the scope of the new regime and the Welsh Assembly Government’s expectations of how it will operate according to good practice principles. The guidance does not give a definitive interpretation of legal planning requirements, which is ultimately a matter for the courts.