The Development Procedure (Consultees) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025

Amendment of the 2012 Order

2.—(1) Schedule 4 to the 2012 Order is amended as follows.

(2) In the table, for row (x) substitute—

“(x)

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

The Natural Resources Body for Wales”

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

“(n) in paragraph (x)–

“Rivers and Sea – Flood Zone 2” (“Afonydd a’r Môr – Parth Llifogydd 2”) means an area with less than a 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 rivers and the sea in a given year, including climate change;

“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 in a given year, including climate change, and a greater than 1 in 200 chance of flooding from the sea in a given year, including climate change;

“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(1)”.

(1)

https://flood-map-for-planning.naturalresources.wales