When to consult Natural Resources Wales about a planning application
The list below sets out the instances when you should consult us about a planning application.
This does not replace any legislative, legal or other duty which may be imposed.
We wish to be consulted where a planning application involves a scheme:
- Within or likely to affect European sites: Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) (designated and candidate), Special Protection Areas (SPA) (classified and potential) and Ramsar sites (designated and proposed
- Within or likely to affect a site of special scientific interest; or is within a consultation area around a SSSI notified to the LPA by NRW
- In or likely to affect national nature reserves (NNR) and Marine Conservation Zones (MCZ)
- Likely to affect European Protected Species, when the need for a survey has been identified, a survey has been undertaken, and LPA needs further advice
- Likely to affect nationally fully protected species protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, when the need for a survey has been identified, a survey has been undertaken, and LPA needs further advice
- Likely to affect the purposes of National Parks or Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- Likely to affect a watercourse, including:
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carrying out of any works operations to the bed or banks for watercourse for example ordinary watercourse or main river. This includes discharge to such watercourses
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development on, or within 8 metres of, the foot of the landward side of any flood defence embankment or wall, or where there is no embankment or wall, within 8 metres of the top of the riverbank
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development on, or within 16 metres of, the foot of the landward side of any sea defence embankment or wall
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culverting or regulating the flow within any watercourse, including any other flow control structure
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- Relating to the use of land as a cemetery, including extensions
- For intensive animal facilities including fish farming, fisheries, poultry and pigs
- Located within Zones 2, 3 or a TAN15 Defended Zone of the Flood Map for Planning, except for new greenfield highly vulnerable development in Zone 3, or householder applications
- Involving groundworks and/or non-mains foul or surface water disposal within a Source Protection Zone, and agricultural development in a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone
- For new establishments; or modifications to existing establishments which could have significant repercussions on major accident hazards; or within 250 metres, where the sighting of development is such as to increase the risk of consequence of the major accident
- On potentially contaminated land, which may pollute controlled waters
- Involving a waste management facility where a Life Cycle Assessment has been prepared.
- Any development Involving groundworks which is on, or within 250 metres, of a historic, closed or active landfill site
- Involving or including mining operations
- For the purpose of refining or storing mineral oils and their derivatives
- Relating to the retention, treatment or disposal of sewage, trade-waste, slurry or sludge (other than the laying of sewers, the construction of pumphouse is in a line of sewers, the construction of septic tanks and cesspools serving single dwelling houses or single caravans or single buildings in which not more than 10 people will normally reside, work, or congregate, and ancillary works)