# The Infrastructure Consent (Correcting Errors and Applications to Change or Revoke Infrastructure Consent Orders) (Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2026, Regulation 36: Publicity for hearing or local inquiry


(1) Where the examining authority determines that an application is to be examined by way of hearing or local inquiry, the applicant must publish and display notice of the hearing or local inquiry in accordance with this regulation.
(2) A notice containing the following information must be published in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality of the relevant land no later than 4 weeks before the first day of the hearing or local inquiry—
(a) a description of the application,
(b) a description of the location of the relevant land,
(c) the date and time of the hearing or local inquiry,
(d) the place of the hearing or local inquiry,
(e) details of any arrangements for broadcasting the hearing or local inquiry,
(f) the topics to be examined at the hearing or local inquiry,
(g) details of a place in the locality where the application and initial written representations can be inspected at all reasonable hours, and
(h) the address of the website where the application and initial written representations can be found.
(3) A notice containing the information specified in paragraph (2) (“site notice”) must be displayed in a conspicuous place on or near the relevant land, for at least 4 weeks before the first day of the hearing or local inquiry.
(4) A site notice must be displayed at intervals of not more than 5 km, unless it is impracticable to do so, where—
(a) the application relates to a linear scheme that is more than 5 km in length;
(b) in the case of an application for revocation the relevant infrastructure consent order grants infrastructure consent for development that relates to a linear scheme that is more than 5 km in length.
(5) Where a site notice is, without the fault of the applicant removed, obscured or defaced before the end of the 4 weeks, the applicant is treated as having complied with paragraphs (3) and (4) if it has taken reasonable steps for the protection of the notice, and, if necessary, replaced it.
(6) The applicant must as soon as reasonably practicable—
(a) send a copy of the notice published under paragraph (2) to the examining authority, and
(b) confirm to the examining authority that the notice required by paragraphs (3) and (4) has been displayed and provide a photograph of that notice in place.
(7) If the relevant infrastructure consent order grants infrastructure consent for development in the Welsh marine area, references to “the relevant land” are to be read (except in paragraph (2)(b)) as references to land in Wales nearest the area to which the application relates.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/25/regulation/36 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-correcting-errors-and-applications-to-change-or-revoke-infrastructure-consent-orders-procedure-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-36
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