The Policy section of the Portal is aimed at planning professionals and those with an in-depth interest in planning policy and reform.

Planning Reform

The government is committed to an ambitious planning reform agenda.

The reform programme includes the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act, changes to secondary legislation, reviews of planning policy guidance and a change in culture for the whole of the planning system.

Learn more about the planning reform process here

Policy and guidance

If you want to refer to the legal or central government policy background to the present system of town and country planning in Wales:

For details of planning policy and technical advice notes click here.

For details of the planning aspects of mining and quarrying click here.

For details of the Welsh spatial strategy click here.