The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 545 (W. 122)

Town And Country Planning, Wales

The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Made

5 April 2017

Laid before before the National Assembly for Wales

11 April 2017

Coming into force

5 May 2017

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 20 and 93 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990(1) and now exercisable by them(2) and the powers conferred on them by section 21 of that Act(3) and by section 323A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(4):

(1)

1990 c. 9. See section 91 for the meaning of “prescribed”. Section 20 was amended by article 3 of, and paragraphs 14 and 16 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2014/2773 (W. 280). Section 93 was amended by section 118(1) of, and paragraphs 19 and 26 of Schedule 6 to, the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5), section 78 of, and paragraph 33(4) of Schedule 10 to, the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25) and section 40(3) to (8) of the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 4) (“the 2016 Act”).

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State under those sections were, so far as exercisable in Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). The functions were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

(3)

Section 21 was amended by section 197 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 11 to the Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), section 47(3) of the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 4) (“the 2015 Act”) and section 40(9) of the 2016 Act.

(4)

1990 c. 8. Section 323A was inserted by section 50 of the 2015 Act. Section 323A is applied to the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 by section 89 of that Act. Section 89 was amended by section 51 of, and paragraphs 19 and 21 of Schedule 5 to, the 2015 Act.