# The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Wales) Order 2012, Article 15B: Duty to respond to consultation: annual reports

Extent: E+W

(1) Each consultee who is, by virtue of section 54 of the 2004 Act and article 15A, under a duty to respond to consultation must give to the Welsh Ministers, not later than 1 July in each year, beginning with the 1 July 2017, a report as to that consultee’s compliance with section 54(4) of the 2004 Act.
(1A) Each consultee who is, by virtue of article 2E, under a duty to respond to pre-application consultation must, in the report given to the Welsh Ministers in accordance with paragraph (1), include a report as to that consultee’s compliance with that article.
(2) The report must relate to the period of 12 months commencing on 1 April in the preceding year (“the report year”).
(3) The report must contain, in respect of any report year, a statement as to—
(a) the number of occasions on which the consultee was consulted;
(b) the number of occasions on which a substantive response was provided;
(c) when the substantive response was provided; and
(d) the number of occasions on which the consultee gave a substantive response outside the period prescribed for the purposes of section 54(4) of the 2004 Act or, as the case may be, the period specified in or referred to in article 2E(1) and a summary of the reasons why.
(4) In this article “substantive response” means either a substantive response to the applicant or local planning authority in accordance with articles 2E or 15A.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2012/801/article/15B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-development-management-procedure-wales-order-2012/article-15B
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