{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2026/section-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2026/section-78.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2026/6",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Wales) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-wales-act-2026",
  "path": "section/78",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Option to make application to the Welsh Ministers",
  "text": "(1) If the following conditions are met, an application for planning permission or for approval of a reserved matter may (if the applicant chooses) be made to the Welsh Ministers instead of to a planning authority.\n(2) The first condition is that the planning authority is designated by the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of this section.\n(3) The second condition is that—\n(a) the development to which the application relates, in the case of an application for planning permission, or\n(b) the development for which outline planning permission has been granted, in the case of an application for approval of a reserved matter,\nis development of a description specified in regulations.\n(4) The third condition, in the case of an application for planning permission for the development of land without complying with conditions subject to which a previous planning permission was granted, is that the application is of a description specified in regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 78 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 409(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/6/section/78",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:37.107863+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."
}