PART 3PLANNING PERMISSION

CHAPTER 12REGISTER

111Register of local development orders, planning applications etc.

(1)

A planning authority must keep a register containing information specified in regulations relating to—

(a)

local development orders made by the authority;

(b)

applications for planning permission made to the authority or the Welsh Ministers in relation to land in the authority’s area;

(c)

applications for approval of reserved matters made in relation to land in the authority’s area;

(d)

applications for non-material changes to planning permission made to the authority under section 100;

(e)

applications made to the authority under Schedules 8 and 9 (applications to determine conditions of minerals permissions or postpone review dates);

(f)

applications for certificates of lawfulness made to the authority under sections 156 and 157;

(g)

decisions of the Welsh Ministers to exercise the powers conferred by section 133 (grant of planning permission or removal of conditions on determination of appeal against enforcement notice) in relation to land in the authority’s area;

(h)

certificates of lawfulness issued by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 134(2) (issue of certificate on determination of appeal against enforcement notice) in relation to land in the authority’s area.

(2)

The information specified in relation to applications mentioned in subsection (1)(b) to (f) must include information about how they have been dealt with.

(3)

The regulations may—

(a)

require the register to be kept in two or more parts;

(b)

require a specified part of the register to contain copies of applications and of other documents or materials submitted with them;

(c)

provide for the entry relating to an application (and everything relating to it) to be removed from that part of the register when the application (including any appeal arising out of it) has been finally disposed of.

(4)

Provision made under subsection (3)(c) does not prevent the regulations requiring a different entry relating to the application to be included in another part of the register.

(5)

The register must be kept in the way specified in the regulations.

(6)

The register must be available for public inspection at all reasonable times.