# Planning (Wales) Act 2026, Paragraph 7: Two or more applications

Extent: E+W
Status: prospective

(1) This paragraph applies where a planning authority has received an application under paragraph 1.
(2) The applicant may not make another application under paragraph 1 that is connected with that application.
(3) If the application has been determined (whether or not it has been finally determined), no other person may make a connected application under paragraph 1.
(4) Sub-paragraph (5) applies if, before the application has been determined, the planning authority receives a connected application under paragraph 1 from another person.
(5) For the purposes of the determination of the applications and any appeal against their determination, this Schedule has effect—
(a) as if they were a single application made to the planning authority on the day it received the later application;
(b) as if references to the applicant were references to each of the applicants.
(6) For the purposes of this paragraph—
(a) applications in respect of pre-1948 minerals permissions are connected where they relate to the same permission;
(b) applications in respect of post-1948 minerals permissions are connected where they relate to the same site.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/6/schedule/8/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2026/schedule-8/paragraph-7
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