# The Infrastructure Consent (Pre-Application and Application Procedure and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2025, Regulation 12: Responses to pre-application consultation

Extent: E+W

(1) A statutory consultee, consulted under regulation 8 or 10 must provide a substantive response within 42 days beginning with the day after the notice referred to in regulation 8 or 10 is given or such other period as may be agreed in writing between the statutory consultee and the applicant.
(2) A substantive response is one which—
(a) states the statutory consultee has no comment to make and gives reasons for that response,
(b) states the statutory consultee has no objection to the proposed development and refers the applicant to current standing advice by the statutory consultee on the subject of the consultation,
(c) advises the applicant the statutory consultee has concerns about the proposed development and how those can be addressed, or
(d) advises the applicant the statutory consultee has concerns about the proposed development and that it would object to an application made in the same or substantially the same terms and sets out the reasons for those objections.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/690/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-consent-pre-application-and-application-procedure-and-transitional-provisions-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-12
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