23 Option to make application to Welsh Ministers
Planning (Wales) Act 2015 (2015 anaw 4) | Legislation

Option to make application to Welsh Ministers

23  Option to make application to Welsh Ministers

In TCPA 1990, after section 62L (as inserted by section 22) insert—

“Wales: option to make application to Welsh Ministers
62M Option to make application directly to Welsh Ministers

(1)     If the following conditions are met, a qualifying application that would otherwise have to be made to the local planning authority may (if the applicant so chooses) instead be made to the Welsh Ministers.

(2)     The first condition is that the local planning authority is designated by the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of this section.

(3)     The second condition is that—

(a)     the development to which the application relates, in the case of a qualifying application within subsection (4)(a), or

(b)     the development for which the outline planning permission has been granted, in the case of a qualifying application within subsection (4)(b),

is development of a description prescribed by regulations made by the Welsh Ministers.

(4)     A qualifying application, for the purposes of this section, is—

(a)     an application for planning permission for the development of land in Wales, provided that the development to which it relates is not development of national significance

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