The Developments of National Significance (Wales) Regulations 2016

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations deal with various matters in relation to development which is of national significance to Wales(1).

These Regulations:

• make provision under sections 61Z1 and 61Z2 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”) for the provision of services by local planning authorities and the Welsh Ministers before an application for planning permission is made for development of national significance (Part 2);

• prescribe functions relating to such applications and secondary consents(2) which are to be carried out by an appointed person on behalf of the Welsh Ministers (Part 3);

• make provision for the procedure to be followed in the examination of such applications (Parts 4 to 10);

• make provision for the manner in which secondary consents or applications for secondary consents are dealt with by the Welsh Ministers (Part 11);

• modify applicable enactments in relation to secondary consents (Part 11 and Schedules 2 to 10); and

• prescribe the applications made under section 73 of the 1990 Act (determination of applications to develop land without compliance with conditions previously attached) which are to be treated as nationally significant development applications (Part 12).

An impact assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations. Copies are available from the Planning Division of the Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ and on the Welsh Government’s web site at www.wales.gov.uk.

(1)

For “development of national significance” see section 62D(3) and (4) of the 1990 Act. Section 62D was inserted by section 19 of the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4).

(2)

For “secondary consents”, see section 62H of the 1990 Act, inserted by section 20 of the Planning (Wales) Act 2015.