The Town and Country Planning (Enforcement Notices and Appeals) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Statement by local planning authority

8.—(1) Where an appeal has been made to the National Assembly against an enforcement notice issued by a local planning authority, the authority must send to the National Assembly, and any person on whom a copy of the enforcement notice has been served, a statement indicating the submissions which it proposes to put forward on the appeal, including—

(a) a summary of the authority’s response to each ground of appeal pleaded by the appellant; and

(b) a statement whether the authority would be prepared to grant planning permission for the matters alleged in the enforcement notice to constitute the breach of planning control, or grant listed building consent or conservation area consent for the works to which the listed buildings enforcement notice or conservation area enforcement notice relates, as the case may be, and, if so, particulars of the conditions, if any, which it would wish to impose on the permission or consent.

(2) Any statement which is required to be sent under paragraph (1) must be received within 6 weeks of the starting date.

(3) In paragraph (2), “starting date” means the date of—

(a) the National Assembly’s written notice under regulation 9; or

(b) the National Assembly’s written notice served in accordance with Rules made under section 9 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992, informing the appellant and the local planning authority that an inquiry or hearing, as the case may be, is to be held, whichever is the later.