Wales Planning

Regional Planning

The Assembly encourages authorities to work together to consider cross border planning issues and to assist authorities in drawing up the strategic policies of their Unitary Development Plans/Local Development Plans.  The system is voluntary and has no formal process or status. 

 

Groups:

• South East Wales Strategic Planning Group - produced Strategic Planning Guidance Volumes 1 (Jan 2000) & 2 (July 2001) and Summary Documents

• South West Wales Strategic Planning Group - produced Regional Planning Guidance document (April 2000)

• Mid Wales Strategic Planning Forum - produced Strategic Planning Statement

• North Wales Regional Group - produced Regional Planning Guidance document and Environmental Appraisal (Adopted by all authorities except Gwynedd as Supplementary Planning Guidance July 2001)

 

A similar system has been used to prepare Waste Guidance across Wales.

The Wales Spatial Plan is likely to drive regional work in the future.