86Combination of applications for planning permission with other applications(1)

Regulations may provide for the combination in a single application of—

(a)

an application for planning permission for development, and

(b)

any other application that an enactment specified in the regulations requires to be made to a planning authority or other local authority in respect of the same development.

(2)

The regulations may make provision about—

(a)

the form and content of a combined application;

(b)

how such an application must be made;

(c)

the authority to which it must be made.

(3)

Before making regulations under this section the Welsh Ministers must consult the local authorities or associations of local authorities that they consider appropriate.

(4)

Regulations under this section may make different provision for areas where different enactments apply.

(5)

Where an application required by an enactment specified in regulations under this section is made in accordance with the regulations, it need not comply with any different provision made by or under that enactment about the form and content of an application or how it must be made.

(6)

Subsection (5) does not—

(a)

prevent an application being made in accordance with the enactment in question, or

(b)

limit any power of a local authority under that enactment to require further information about the matters to which the application relates.

(7)

A planning authority must not consider a combined application made to it by virtue of regulations under this section if any requirement imposed by the regulations has not been complied with.

(8)

In this section references to making an application (other than an application for planning permission) include giving a notice or submitting any other document.