Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee

Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports

8 June 2015

CLA535 - The Town and Country Planning (Referrals and Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2015

Procedure:  Negative

These Regulations lay down the procedure and time limits in connection with the determination of certain prescribed applications that are referred to the Welsh Ministers and appeals where the matters are to be considered on the basis of written representations.

They revoke and replace, with some changes, the Town and Country Planning (Referrals and Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2003, subject to transitional and saving provisions.

CLA536 - The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2015

Procedure:  Negative

This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Wales) Order 2012.  The detailed amendments are explained in the Explanatory Note to the Order.

CLA537 - The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Procedure:  Negative

These Regulations amend the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Wales) Regulations 2012 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2(2) and (3) amends regulation 12 of the principal Regulations by removing the six month time limit for lodging an appeal following the failure of a local planning authority to determine an application for listed building consent within the determination period prescribed in regulation 3(5) of the principal Regulations.

Regulation 2(4) inserts a provision into the principal Regulations prescribing an additional period of four weeks for the purposes of section 20A of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.

Regulation 3 makes transitional provisions.