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Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023

Section 169 — Arrangements for obtaining specialist advice

638.Section 169 enables the Welsh Ministers to direct a planning authority to submit for their approval the arrangements that the authority has in place for obtaining specialist advice in connection with some of its functions under the Act. The relevant functions are set out in subsection (6) and are those where an understanding of the significance and special architectural or historic interest of a building is required in order for the planning authority to undertake its functions effectively.

639.For example, when considering an application for listed building consent, a planning authority has a duty to have special regard to the desirability of preserving the listed building, its setting and any features of special architectural or historic interest the building possesses (section 96(2)). Due to the specialist nature of works to a listed building, the availability of specialist advice is essential when determining listed building consent applications.

640.Section 169(3) provides that if the Welsh Ministers are not satisfied with the arrangements that one planning authority (authority A) proposes to make to receive specialist advice, they can direct another planning authority (authority B) to exercise any of the relevant functions of authority A, or to make an officer from authority B available to provide specialist advice to authority A.

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