Regulation 10 Accepting requests for pre-application servicesI1

A planning authority, Natural Resources Wales and the Welsh Ministers must accept as valid a request for pre-application services if it complies with the requirements imposed by regulation 9.

Where the planning authority, Natural Resources Wales or the Welsh Ministers (as the case may be) accept as valid a request, they must give a notice of acceptance to the person who made the request.

The notice of acceptance must specify the date by which the pre-application services will be provided, which must be no more than 29 days after the day on which notice is given.

The date specified in a notice of acceptance may be amended by written agreement between the planning authority, Natural Resources Wales or Welsh Ministers (as the case may be) and the person who made the request.

Where the Welsh Ministers are to provide the pre-application services, they may amend the date specified in a notice of acceptance by direction.

If the planning authority, Natural Resources Wales or the Welsh Ministers (as the case may be) decide that the request for pre-application services cannot be accepted, they must give a notice of their decision to the person who made the request giving reasons for their decision.