Publication - Advice and guidance
Planning Obligations and Good Neighbour Agreements: draft guidance
Draft guidance for comments on how planning obligations can be used to make developments acceptable, including advice on development planning and addressing cumulative impacts.
Annex – Definition of “Infrastructure First” from NPF4
Infrastructure first:
Putting infrastructure considerations at the heart of placemaking. For the purpose of applying the Infrastructure First policy, the following meaning of infrastructure will apply:
- communications – including digital and telecommunications networks and connections;
- existing and planned transport infrastructure and services;
- water management – supply, drainage systems and sewerage (including flood risk management);
- energy supplies/energy generation – including electricity and heat networks, distribution and transmission electricity grid networks, and gas supplies;
- health and social care services – including both services provided in the community directly by Health Boards and services provided on their behalf by contractors such as GPs, dentists and pharmacists;
- education – including early years, primary, secondary, further and higher education services;
- green and blue infrastructure; and
- spaces for play and recreation.