53Pre-application services provided by planning authority or the Welsh Ministers(1)

Regulations may make provision for and in connection with the provision of pre-application services by a planning authority or the Welsh Ministers.

(2)

The regulations may, in particular, make provision—

(a)

about circumstances in which pre-application services are required to be provided (including provision about the form and content of requests for services, and information that is to be included with a request);

(b)

about the nature of the services required to be provided, and when and how they are to be provided;

(c)

for information and documents relating to services provided under the regulations, or to requests for those services, to be published or otherwise made available to the public, or to persons specified in the regulations, by a planning authority or the Welsh Ministers;

(d)

about other steps required to be taken by any person in connection with, or for the purposes of, the provision of services under the regulations.

(3)

In this Chapter “pre-application services” means services provided to a person, in respect of a qualifying application the person proposes to make in respect of the development of land, for the purpose of assisting the person in making the application.

(4)

A “qualifying application” is an application under or by virtue of this Part that is of a description specified in regulations.