PART 4

Determination

Directions by the Welsh Ministers
18
1
The Welsh Ministers may give directions restricting the grant of permission by a local planning authority, either indefinitely or during such a period as may be specified in the directions, in respect of any development or in respect of development of any class so specified.
2
The Welsh Ministers may give directions that development which is both of a description set out in Column 1 of the Table in Schedule 2 to the EIA Regulations (descriptions of development and applicable thresholds and criteria for the purposes of the definition of “Schedule 2 development”) and of a class described in the direction is EIA development for the purposes of those Regulations.
3
A local planning authority must deal with applications for planning permission for development to which a direction given under this article applies in such manner as to give effect to the direction.
S.I. 1999/293, Column 1 of the Table in Schedule 2 was amended by S.I 2006/3099 and 2007/2610.
Words in art. 18(2) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/567), reg. 1(2), Sch. 9 para. 1(9) (with regs. 1(4), 55(2)(3), 63, 65)