What is being consulted on?
The consultation seeks views on how people and organisations should help develop the revised Framework, which is also known as Future Wales. It covers a draft Statement of Public Participation, setting out the process and timetable, and a National Conversation Engagement Plan, explaining how views and evidence will be gathered.
It also asks broader questions about Wales’s future, including housing, energy, transport, regeneration, and how to reduce delays and duplication in planning. Responses will help shape the revised Framework and other Welsh Government plans and strategies.
Homes and infrastructure must be planned together
In our response, we stress that Wales needs homes for social rent, private rent, and purchase. Plans should reflect local demand, changing household sizes, and an ageing population, while recognising the different pressures facing urban, rural, coastal, and Valleys communities.
We support an infrastructure-first approach, with transport, utilities, schools and healthcare planned and funded alongside new housing. This builds on our position paper, Meeting UK house demand, moving beyond the planning system, which sets out why planning reform alone cannot deliver enough homes. Investment, skills, and support for smaller developers are also essential.
Town-centre regeneration and the reuse of vacant buildings should form part of the solution, consistent with our Tackling empty properties position paper.
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Support investment and improve delivery
We have urged the Welsh Government to recognise the private rented sector’s role in meeting housing need. Our response warns that rent controls and higher Land Transaction Tax rates on additional properties can discourage investment and reduce rental supply.
Improving existing homes matters too. We want realistic energy-efficiency requirements, skilled installers and accessible funding, including extending Green Homes Wales to private landlords.
To help turn plans into completed homes, we recommend clearer requirements, better-resourced planning departments and proportionate processes for smaller developments. National, regional and local plans should work together, with clear responsibilities and enough flexibility to respond to local needs.
Agent expertise is needed to shape the plans
Our members hold practical evidence on demand, affordability, and barriers to development. We want their knowledge used throughout the review, alongside the views of tenants, buyers, landlords and communities. Engagement must continue between formal consultations, with clear feedback showing how evidence has influenced decisions.
Members can read the consultation and submit their own response by 20 November 2026.
