The Development Procedure (Consultees) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2021

Amendment of the 2016 Order

3.—(1) Schedule 5 to the 2016 Order is amended as follows.

(2) In the table—

(a) for row (u) substitute—

“(u)

Development— (i) on land within Rivers and Sea — Flood Zone 3; (ii) on land within Rivers and Sea — Flood Zone 2; (iii) on land within TAN 15 Defended Zones.

The Natural Resources Body for Wales”

(b) after row (v) insert—

“(w)

Development— (i) involving waste development; (ii) involving the provision of a building or buildings where the floor space to be created by the development is 1,000 square metres or more; or (iii) carried out on a site having an area of 1 hectare or more.

The Fire and Rescue Authority concerned”

(3) Under the heading “Interpretation of Table” for paragraph (j) substitute—

“in paragraph (u)—

(i) “Rivers and Sea —Flood Zone 3” (“Afonydd a’r Môr – Parth Llifogydd 3”) means an area with a greater than 1 in 100 chance of flooding from rivers and a greater than 1 in 200 chance of flooding from the sea in a given year, including climate change;

(ii) “Rivers and Sea —Flood Zone 2” (“Afonydd a’r Môr – Parth Llifogydd 2”) means an area with less than 1 in 100 chance of flooding from rivers and less than 1 in 200 chance of flooding from the sea but greater than 1 in 1000 chance of flooding from the rivers and sea in a given year, including climate change; and

(iii) “TAN 15 Defended Zones” (“Parthau Amddiffynedig TAN 15”) means areas where flood risk management infrastructure provides a minimum standard of protection against flooding of 1 in 100 from rivers and 1 in 200 from the sea (plus climate change and freeboard) as set out in the Flood Map for Planning published by Natural Resources Wales.”