Planning Policy Wales - Brecon Beacons National Park

• promote the development of under-used and vacant previously developed land and premises,
especially those adjacent to existing or disused railway lines or docks, which have been
safeguarded by local planning authorities (see 8.5.4) indicating the industrial and commercial
uses that would be acceptable;
• provide criteria against which new buildings within farm complexes must be judged;
• include a policy or policies relating to the location of establishments where hazardous substances
are used or stored and to the development of land within the vicinity of establishments where
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• indicate general locations where further hazardous development may be acceptable, subject
to adequate design and acceptable risk assessment, and set out criteria to control hazardous
development and other development in the vicinity; and
• propose specific locations for those necessary industries which are detrimental to amenity and
may be a source of pollution.
7.5.2 Local planning authorities should also consider producing Supplementary Planning Guidance
on how farm diversification proposals are addressed in their area and the criteria that planning
applications for farm diversification would be expected to meet.
7.6 Development control and the economy
7.6.1 In determining planning applications for industrial and commercial uses, local planning
authorities should have regard to:
• the impact of the development on the environment and local amenity (in terms of, for example,
its scale and design, use of materials and natural resources, impact on landscape and wildlife,
and its contribution to the generation of traffic and waste, noise and odour, emissions to air,
water and soil, and its impacts on community safety and health);
• ways to avoid, mitigate or compensate for negative environmental impacts, including the impacts
of climate change;
• accessibility by a range of different transport modes;
• the possible need for, and scale of, transport and other infrastructure changes required to enable
development to occur;
• proximity to, and compatibility (in terms of nature and scale) with, residential areas;
• compatibility with existing industrial and commercial activities;
• whether the intensification of industrial / commercial use is appropriate; and
• opportunities to encourage developments involving co-location deploying waste stream
technology or practices, innovative business or technology clusters, sustainable energy and
developments in the social economy.
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