The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications and Site Visits) (Wales) Regulations 2015

Exceptions – access and facilities for disabled persons

4.—(1) Regulation 3 does not apply where the local planning authority to whom the application is made are satisfied that it relates solely to—

(a) the carrying out of operations for the alteration or extension of an existing dwellinghouse; or

(b) the carrying out of operations within the curtilage of an existing dwellinghouse (other than the erection of a dwellinghouse),

for the purpose, in either case, of providing means of access to or within the dwellinghouse for a disabled person who is resident in, or is proposing to take up residence in, that dwellinghouse, or of providing facilities designed to secure that person’s greater safety, health or comfort.

(2) Regulation 3 does not apply where the local planning authority to whom the application is made are satisfied that it relates solely to the carrying out of operations for the purpose of providing means of access for disabled persons to or within a building or to premises to which members of the public are admitted (whether on payment or otherwise).

(3) For the purposes of this regulation a person is disabled if—

(a) the person’s sight, hearing or speech is substantially impaired;

(b) the person has a mental disorder; or

(c) the person is physically substantially disabled by any illness, any impairment present since birth, or otherwise.

(4) In this regulation “mental disorder” (“anhwylder meddyliol”) means any disorder or disability of the mind.