PART 3PLANNING PERMISSION

CHAPTER 7APPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING PERMISSION AND RELATED APPROVALS: SPECIAL CASES

Optional applications to the Welsh Ministers

82Procedure for dealing with planning applications made to the Welsh Ministers

(1)

Regulations may make provision about how the Welsh Ministers are to deal with—

(a)

applications for planning permission or approval of a reserved matter that are made to them under section 78 or 80, or

(b)

applications for any other consent, agreement or approval required by a condition or limitation subject to which planning permission was granted, that are made to them under section 80.

(2)

That provision may include provision about—

(a)

publicity, notification or consultation to be carried out in relation to applications;

(b)

the variation of applications;

(c)

the notice to be given of how an application has been dealt with.

(3)

If an application for planning permission or for approval of a reserved matter—

(a)

falls within the terms of a request that a community council has made to a planning authority under section 65(1) (notifying community councils of applications), and

(b)

is made to the Welsh Ministers instead of the planning authority under section 78 or 80,

the Welsh Ministers (instead of the planning authority) must notify the community council of the application in accordance with section 65(4).

(4)

The planning authority must comply with any request made by the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of this section to give them information about requests received by the authority under section 65(1).