{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2024/3",
  "legislation_title": "Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-wales-act-2024",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Local impact reports",
  "text": "(1) A planning authority must respond to a notice given under section 34(2)(a), and may respond to a notice given under section 34(2)(b), by submitting a local impact report in respect of the application to the Welsh Ministers before the deadline specified in the notice.\n(2) A community council may respond to a notice given under section 34(2)(a) or (b) by submitting a local impact report to the Welsh Ministers before the deadline specified in the notice.\n(3) A planning authority or community council may submit a local impact report otherwise than in response to a notice given under section 34(2) before the deadline specified in publicity under section 34(3).\n(4) In this Act, a local impact report in respect of an application is a report in writing that—\n(a) gives details of the likely impact of the proposed development on the area (or a part of the area) of the local planning authority or community council submitting the report, and\n(b) complies with requirements specified in regulations about the form and content of a local impact report.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "S. 36 in force at 4.6.2024 for specified purposes, see s. 147(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 36 in force at 15.12.2025 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2025/698, art. 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/7",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/3/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:47.929834+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}