Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024

30 Pre-application consultation and publicity

(1) A person who proposes to make an application for infrastructure consent (“the applicant”) must carry out consultation on the proposed application.

(2) Regulations may make provision for, or in connection with, the consultation required under this section, including (among other things) provision—

(a) about the persons or persons of a description required to be consulted;

(b) about how the consultation is to be carried out (including the form and content of documents, information and other materials that are to be provided to a person for the purposes of, or in connection with, the consultation);

(c) about the matters to be consulted on, including (among other things) the benefits of the proposed development for people living in the area of the proposed development;

(d) about responding to the consultation (including provision requiring a person or description of person consulted to respond to the consultation or to respond to the consultation in a particular way, or to respond within a particular time);

(e) about the timetable in connection with carrying out the consultation;

(f) requiring a person consulted by virtue of paragraph (a) to prepare and publish a report about the person’s compliance with any requirement imposed by virtue of paragraph (d) or (e) (including the form and content of the report and the time at which it is to be made).

(3) The applicant must publicise the proposed application in the way specified in regulations.

(4) If section 29 applies to a proposed application, a step taken in respect of the proposed application before the date on which notice is given by the Welsh Ministers under section 29(4) is not to be treated as consultation or publicity under this section.