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Annotated cuttings from newspapers and magazines, and related papers, mainly relating to wind farms, but also landscape, climate change, energy policy, the energy market, the environmental impact of airports, air travel, travel etc.

Letters and related papers, mainly relating to the Powys Local Development Plan, 2008, and planning application for Mynydd y Gwynt, Llanbryn-mair and Carnedd Wen windfarms, 2014-2016.

Letters and other papers relating to Cefn Croes planning consent conditions, including local benefits, borrow pits, water abstraction, archaeology, overhead cable connections, and retrospective planning applications.

Mainly comprising Kaye Little's correspondence with WAG and Westminster politicians, candidates, advisors and public servants, 2006-2009, including Alistair Darling, DTI minister, Prof. Mark Drakeford, Cheryl Gillam, shadow secretary of state for Wales, Elin Jones AM, Carwyn Jones, WAG minister for environment, planning & countryside, Rhodri Morgan, first minister, Paul Murphy, secretary of state for Wales. Also a print-out of an election diary by Simon Thomas for the Channel 4 News website, April-May 2005; copies of CCAG's response to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee enquiry 'Keeping the lights on: nuclear, renewables and climate change', 2005-2006; and the Welsh Assembly Government 'Ministerial code: a code of ethics and procedural guidance for ministers and deputy ministers', 2007.

Letters relating to the Powys UDP and related papers, including a copy of the Powys Rural Development Plan, 2007-2013.

Drafts of Kaye Little's evidence to the Scout Moor wind farm inquiry, co. Lancs, and a draft of 'Developer's false promises, dodgy statistics, outright lies and other dirty tricks'.

Letters from the Wales Tourist Board to Peggy Liford, and related papers, including a copy of WTB's windfarm policy, 1994, and papers for the board meeting at Aberystwyth, 20 Oct. 2000.

Unfiled letters, newspaper cuttings and related material, including related to RAF low flying, 2002, and the launch of the Cambrian Mountains Society, 2005.

Papers relating to the Cambrian Mountains Society/Cymdeithas Mynyddoedd Cambria, Kaye Little's membership, and society activities and publications. Also an unattributed report, 'A project for Strata Florida: a concept note', [post 2002].

Papers relating to the CPRW, including copies of 'Cymru wledig/Rural Wales', 1997-2007; a legal opinion for CPRW and the Speyside Environmental Protection Group on Cefn Croes and an unnamed windfarm in Speyside, 2002; papers relating to the Ceredigion branch, 2003-2007; Kaye Little's notes of the contentious CPRW council meetings of March and June 2007; and correspondence, 2007.

Papers relating to the Forestry Commission, 1998-2007, particularly relating to the use of the forest estate for purposes beyond their statutory remit. Also extracts from the Forestry Act 1967.

Mainly relating to forestry policy, including the 'Review of woodland expansion in Wales', 2004, and Kaye Little's report to CCAG on the Forestry Commission's 'Woodlands for Wales' conference at Llandrindod, 12 Jan. 2006.

Correspondence between Kaye Little and the Forestry Commission, and related papers and publications, including Forestry Commission Wales annual report and accounts 2006-07.

Letters relating to CCAG's FOI request into the DTI minister's decision-making process.

Green group responses, including Friends of the Earth and the Sustainable Development Consortium, 2001-2009. Also copies of Marcus Rand, 'Developing wind energy for the UK' (FoE, 1990), a speech by Niel Kinnock against the Mynydd Maen windfarm, 1994, the Darmstadt manifesto on the exploitation of wind energy in Germany, 1998, and notes on the Cefn Croes windfarm debate, Merched y Wawr building, Aberystwyth, 26 Oct. 2000.

Papers mainly relating to CCAG's appeal to the Information Tribunal, 2006-2008, including related papers, 2001-2002, including more and less heavily redacted copies of the minister, Brian Wilson's grants of planning consent, Dec. 2001 and May 2002.

Correspondence relating to requests for information, mainly between Kaye Little and the Welsh Assembly Government, the Forestry Commission and the Information Commissioner's Office.

Correspondence with David Morgan Jones, ex-Aberystwyth retired solicitor and supporter of CCAG.

File of Helen Kaye's letters to newspapers, and newspaper cuttings and photocopies. Also a WindPower note on 'The energy balance of modern wind turbines', Dec. 1997, and other similar reports, a report on a WDA sponsored workshop on 'The integration and promotion of sustainable development in the Ystwyth valley', 2002, a report by John Philips, 'Environmental problems at the Braes of Doune wind farm', Aug. 2006, a paper by Sir Leslie Fielding, 'Global warming', given to the Ludlow Civic Society, 2006, and the executive summary of a report by Friends of the Braes, 'Scandal on the Braes: environmental law and the River Teath special area of conservation', [post Dec. 2006], and related correspondence.

File of Helen Kaye's letters to the Cambrian News, the Western Mail and other local, regional and national papers, and newspaper cuttings and photocopies.