The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2016

Amendments relating to the duty to respond to consultation: annual reports

7.  In article 15B(1)—

(a) after paragraph 1 insert—

“(1A) Each consultee who is, by virtue of article 2E, under a duty to respond to pre-application consultation must, in the report given to the Welsh Ministers in accordance with paragraph (1), include a report as to that consultee’s compliance with that article.”;

(b) in paragraph (3)(d) after “for the purposes of section 54(4) of the 2004 Act” insert “or, as the case may be, the period specified in or referred to in article 2E(1)”;

(c) after paragraph 3(d) insert—

“(4) In this article “substantive response” means either a substantive response to the applicant or local planning authority in accordance with articles 2E or 15A.”

(1)

Article 15B was inserted by S.I.2015/1330 (W. 123).