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Regulation 5 Time limits for determining applications for approval

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(1)

An approving body must determine—

(a)

an application for approval that relates to a development that is the subject of an Environmental Impact Assessment under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2017f1(“the 2017 Regulations”) within the period of 12 weeks beginning on the first working day after it receives a valid application, or

(b)

any other application for approval within the period of 7 weeks beginning on the first working day after it receives a valid application.

(2)

Before the end of the period specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) (as the case may be) of paragraph (1), the approving body and applicant may agree a longer time for determining an application.

(3)

An approving body which fails to determine an application within the relevant time limit is deemed to have refused the application.

(4)

In this regulation—

  • “development” (“datblygiad”) has the meaning given in section 55(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990f2;

  • “Environmental Impact Assessment” (“Asesiad o’r Effaith Amgylcheddol”) has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the 2017 Regulations;

  • “relevant time limit” (“terfyn amser perthnasol”) means—

    1. (a)

      a period specified in paragraph (1), or

    2. (b)

      any longer period agreed under paragraph (2).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 2017/567 (W. 136).

f2

1990 c. 8.