Digital technologies have evolved rapidly in the last three decades and are now used daily by planners to process applications, visualise data, communicate with stakeholders, and complete administrative tasks. Despite this integration of digital technology into planning practice, the planning systems within all UK nations have largely remained static in their legal requirements, processes and methods. Simultaneous to these changes, planners in the UK’s devolved planning systems and local planning authorities have faced declining resourcing, growing workloads, and challenges recruiting and retaining staff. While several digital planning pilot projects have been launched/implemented in England and Scotland since 2020, progress in Wales has been slower and more focused on broader issues of public service delivery, digital inclusion, foundational infrastructure, and some exploratory work in planning. As a result, there is a gap in our understanding of digital planning practices in Wales. This research establishes a benchmark of digital planning practices in Wales, and the capacity of local planning authorities (LPAs) to engage with digital planning. The research draws on a desktop review of existing policies, online survey, and two focus groups with professional planners in Wales. The study revealed significant variation in the technical capacity of LPAs to adopt more advanced digital planning technologies and reflects on these to makes specific recommendations on digital planning to ease resource pressures and improve planning outcomes in Wales.