http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/6/section/80Planning (Wales) Act 2026enStatute Law Database2026-06-16Expert Participation2026-04-28 Planning (Wales) Act 2026Deddf Cynllunio (Cymru) 2026s. 346(3)(c)(ii)Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026Deddf Cynllunio (Darpariaethau Canlyniadol) (Cymru) 2026Sch. 5 para. 23Sch. 5 Pt. 1s. 5(2) PART 3CHAPTER 7 80 1 This section applies where an application for planning permission or for approval of a reserved matter (“the principal application”) is made to the Welsh Ministers under section 78. 2 A connected application that would otherwise have to be made to a planning authority may (if the applicant chooses) instead be made to the Welsh Ministers, but only if it is made on the same day as the principal application. 3 “Connected application” means an application under the Welsh planning Acts that— a is of a description specified in regulations, and b is considered by the person making it to be connected to the principal application. 4 Subsection (5) applies if an application is made to the Welsh Ministers on the basis that it is a connected application but the Welsh Ministers consider— a that the application is not connected to the principal application, or b that, although the application is connected to the principal application, the decision on the application should not be made by the Welsh Ministers. 5 The Welsh Ministers must refer the application to the planning authority to which it would otherwise have been made. 6 An application that has been referred to a planning authority under subsection (5) is to be— a treated as having been made to that authority (instead of to the Welsh Ministers) on the day it was referred, and b determined by the authority accordingly. 7 Regulations may make provision about the referral of applications under subsection (5) (including provision about what counts as the referral of an application for the purposes of subsection (6)). S. 80 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 409(2)