PART 3PLANNING PERMISSION
CHAPTER 4PRE-APPLICATION PROCEDURE
52Requirement for applicant to carry out pre-application consultation and publicity
(1)
This section applies where a person (“the applicant”) proposes to make an application for planning permission for development of a description specified in regulations.
(2)
The applicant must publicise and consult on the proposed application in accordance with this section.
(3)
The applicant must publicise the proposed application in a way the applicant reasonably considers likely to bring it to the attention of a majority of the owners and occupiers of land in the vicinity of the proposed development.
(4)
In doing so, the applicant must—
(a)
set out how persons wishing to comment on the proposed development may contact the applicant;
(b)
give enough information about the timetable for commenting on the proposed development to ensure that persons wishing to comment can do so in good time.
(5)
The applicant must consult every person specified in regulations, or of a description specified in regulations, about the proposed application.
(6)
This section does not apply—
(a)
if the proposed application is an application under section 85 (urgent Crown development), or
(b)
in cases specified in regulations.
(7)
Regulations may make provision in connection with publicity and consultation under this section.
(8)
That provision may include—
(a)
provision about how the publicity and consultation are to be carried out (including provision about the form and content of documents, and about information and other materials that are to be provided to a person for the purposes of, or in connection with, the publicity or consultation);
(b)
provision about the timetable (including deadlines) for the publicity and consultation;
(c)
provision about responding to the consultation (including provision requiring a person who is consulted to respond to the consultation, to respond to it in a particular way, or to respond within a particular time);
(d)
provision requiring a person who is consulted to make a report to the Welsh Ministers about the person’s compliance with any requirement imposed by virtue of paragraph (c) (including provision about the form and content of the report and when it must be made).