http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/6/section/87Planning (Wales) Act 2026enStatute Law Database2026-06-16Expert Participation2026-04-28 PART 3PLANNING PERMISSIONCHAPTER 8PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT WITH GOVERNMENT AUTHORISATIONAuthorisation for development by local authorities and statutory undertakers 87 1 This section applies where the authorisation of a government department is required by virtue of an enactment for development that is to be carried out in Wales by a local authority or a statutory undertaker. 2 On granting the authorisation, the government department may give a direction granting planning permission for the development, subject to conditions specified in the direction. 3 For the purposes of this section a government department grants an authorisation for development if it— a grants any consent, authority or approval for the development under an enactment; b confirms a compulsory purchase order authorising the acquisition of land for the purpose of the development; c consents to the appropriation of land for the purpose of the development or to the acquisition of land by agreement for that purpose; d authorises— i the borrowing of money for the purpose of the development, or ii the application for that purpose of money that would not otherwise be applicable for that purpose; e gives an undertaking to pay a grant in respect of the development. 4 In subsection (1) the reference to a statutory undertaker does not include an electricity licensee. 5 See also— a section 5(1) of the Pipe-lines Act 1962 (c. 58), which provides that the Secretary of State may direct that planning permission is granted for development in accordance with a pipe-line construction authorisation under section 1 of that Act or a notice requiring the removal of works under section 4 of that Act; b section 4(6) of the Gas Act 1965 (c. 36), which provides that certain development shown as approved in a storage authorisation order under that section, or carried out in accordance with such an order, is taken to be authorised by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this section. S. 87 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 409(2)