Schedule Notices to statutory and specialist consultees

Natural Resources Wales

The relevant water and sewerage undertaker

National Air Traffic Services

Ministry of Defence

Public Health Wales

Transport for Wales

Canal and River Trust

Distribution Network

Operators

Development likely to result in a material increase in the volume or material change in the character of traffic—

(i) entering or leaving a trunk road;

(ii) using a level crossing over a railway

The Welsh Ministers

The operator of the network which includes or consists of the railway in question

1. (i)

   Development which has a physical impact on a scheduled monument,

2. (ii)

   Development likely to be visible from a scheduled monument and which meets one of the following criteria—

3. (aa)

   it is within a distance of 0.5 km from any point of the perimeter of a scheduled monument,

4. (bb)

   it is within a distance of 1 km from the perimeter of a scheduled monument and is 15 metres or more in height, or has an area of 0.2 hectares or more,

5. (cc)

   it is within a distance of 2 km from the perimeter of a scheduled monument and is 50 metres or more in height, or has an area of 0.5 hectares or more,

6. (dd)

   it is within a distance of 3 km from the perimeter of a scheduled monument and is 75 metres or more in height, or has an area of 1 hectare or more, or

7. (ee)

   it is within a distance of 5 km from the perimeter of a scheduled monument and is 100 metres or more in height, or has an area of 1 hectare or more,

8. (iii)

   Development likely to affect the site of a registered historic park or garden or its setting,

9. (iv)

   Development within a registered historic landscape that requires an Environmental Impact Assessment,

10. (v)

    Development likely to have an impact on the outstanding universal value of a World Heritage Site

Development which involves —

(i) the loss of not less than 20 hectares of grades 1, 2 or 3a agricultural land which is for the time being used (or was last used) for agricultural purposes, or

(ii) the loss of less than 20 hectares of grades 1, 2 or 3a agricultural land which is for the time being used (or was last used) for agricultural purposes, in circumstances in which the development is likely to lead to a further loss of agricultural land amounting cumulatively to 20 hectares or more

Development which—

(i) is likely to prejudice the use, or lead to the loss of use, of land being used as a playing field, or

(ii) is on land which has been:

(aa) used as a playing field at any time in the years before the making of the relevant application and which remains undeveloped,

(bb) allocated for use as a playing field in a development plan or in proposals for such a plan or its alteration or replacement, or

(iii) involves the replacement of the grass surface of a playing pitch on a playing field with an artificial, man-made or composite surface.

Development—

(i) involving waste development,

(ii) involving the provision of a building where the floor space to be created by the development is 1,000 square metres or more,

(iii) carried out on a site having an area of 1 hectare or more

The Crown Estate

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Trinity House

Reserved Trust Ports

Local harbour authority

Local ports

Welsh Ministers

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales

Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities

The Royal Yachting Association

Concerned Welsh archaeological trust

UK Chamber of Shipping

National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations

Welsh Fishermen’s Association

Harbour Authority concerned

Navigation Authority concerned

Associated British Ports

Interpretation of Table

In the above Table—

1. (a)

   in paragraph (b)—

• “network” (“rhwydwaith”) and “operator” (“gweithredwr”) have the same meaning as in section 83(1) of the Railways Act 1993^f1 (the provision of railway services);

• “trunk road” (“cefnffordd”) has the same meaning as in section 143 of the 2024 Act;

1. (b)

   in paragraph (d)—

• “scheduled monument” (“heneb gofrestredig”) has the same meaning as in section 3(7) of the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023^f2 (duty to maintain and publish schedule of monuments);

• Reference to the height of development is to be construed as a reference to its height when measured from ground level; and for the purposes of this paragraph “ground level” means the level of the surface of the ground immediately adjacent to the development in question, or where the level of the surface of the ground on which it is situated is not uniform, the level of the highest part of the surface immediately adjacent to it;

• “registered historic park or garden” (“parc hanesyddol cofrestredig neu ardd hanesyddol gofrestredig”) and “registered historic landscape” (“tirwedd hanesyddol gofrestredig”) means the park, garden or landscape included in the Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales maintained by the Welsh Ministers;

• “World Heritage Site” (“Safle Treftadaeth y Byd”) means land appearing on the World Heritage List kept under article 11(2) of the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage adopted at Paris on 16 November 1972;

1. (c)

   in paragraph (e), “theatre” has the same meaning as in section 5 of the Theatres Trust Act 1976^f3 (interpretation);

1. (d)

   in paragraph (g)—

• “playing field” (“maes chwarae”) means the whole of a site which encompasses at least one playing pitch;

• “playing pitch” (“llain chwarae”) means a delineated area which, together with run-off area, is of 0.2 hectares or more and which is used for association football, American football, rugby, cricket, hockey, lacrosse, rounders, baseball, softball, Australian football, Gaelic football, shinty, hurling, polo or cycle polo;

1. (e)

   in paragraphs (i) and (p) “harbour authority” has the meaning given in section 143 of the 2024 Act;

1. (f)

   in paragraph (n) “airport” has the meaning given in section 143 of the 2024 Act;

1. (g)

   in paragraph (r) “Distribution Network Operators” means companies licensed to operate the networks that distribute electricity from the national transmission grid to end users.