Significant infrastructure projects (SIP): advice on the process for accessing land

Welsh Government, 2025
Significant infrastructure projects (SIP): advice on the process for accessing land Download document

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Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning

Abstract

Provides guidance on requesting permission to access land for surveys. Covers: why an applicant may need to access land, when access may be needed, when access will not be granted, what is a right to access land authorisation, how the process works and if the land is damaged.

History

Sourced from: https://www.gov.wales/significant-infrastructure-projects-sip-advice-process-accessing-land and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 28 November 2025.

Subjects

  • Strategic planning
  • Planning and development
  • Planning control, Wales
  • Planning control

Publisher History

The Welsh Government is the devolved government for Wales. They publish a number of strategies, policies, consultation papers, circulars, leaflets and posters. Previously known as Welsh Assembly Government.

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