Regulation 9 Requests for pre-application servicesI1

England and Wales

(1)

A request for pre-application services made to a planning authority, Natural Resources Wales or the Welsh Ministers must be made on a form published by the Welsh Ministers or a form substantially to the same effect.

(2)

A request made under paragraph (1) must include the following information—

(a)

for development in Wales, a plan drawn to an identified scale and showing the direction of north,

(b)

for development in the Welsh marine area, co-ordinates which identify the location to which the application relates, and

(c)

any other plans, drawings and information necessary to describe the proposed development.

(3)

A request under paragraph (1) must be accompanied by any fee payable.

(4)

Where the request is made to the Welsh Ministers, it must also include details of any requests for a F1screening opinion or screening direction, or scoping opinion or scoping direction made under the EIA Regulations.

(5)

In this regulation “the EIA Regulations” means the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2017^f1 and The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2007^f2.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 9(4) substituted (2.6.2026) by The Infrastructure Consent (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/85), regs. 1(2), 4

Commencement

I1: Reg. 9 in force at 15.12.2025, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2017/567 (W. 136).
f2: S.I. 2007/1518.