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  "legislation": "wsi/2012/801",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Wales) Order 2012",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Consultations before the grant of permission",
  "text": "In the above Table—\n(a) in paragraphs (c)(iv) and (d)(iv), “industrial process” (“proses ddiwydiannol”) means a process for or incidental to any of the following purposes—\n(i) the making of any article or part of any article (including a ship or vessel, or a film, video or sound recording);\n(ii) the altering, repairing, maintaining, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, packing, canning, adapting for sale, breaking up or demolition of any article; or\n(iii) the getting, dressing or treatment of minerals in the course of any trade or business other than agriculture, and other than a process carried out on land used as a mine or adjacent to and occupied together with a mine (and in this sub-paragraph, “mine” (“mwynglawdd”) means any site on which mining operations are carried out);\n(b) in paragraphs (c) and (d) “relevant nuclear site” (“safle niwclear perthnasol”) means a site which is—\n(i) a GB nuclear site (within the meaning given in section 68 of the Energy Act 2013);\n(ii) an authorised defence site (within the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998); or\n(iii) a new nuclear build site (within the meaning given by regulation 2A(1) of those Regulations).]\n(c) in paragraph (e), “network” (“rhwydwaith”) and “operator” (“gweithredwr”) have the same meaning as in section 83(1) of the Railways Act 1993 (the provision of railway services);\n(d) in paragraphs (f) and (g), “classified road” (“ffordd ddosbarthiadol”) means a highway or proposed highway which—\n(i) is a classified road or a principal road by virtue of section 12(1) of the Highways Act 1980 (general provision as to principal and classified roads); or\n(ii) is classified for the purposes of any enactment by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 12(3) of that Act;\n(e) in paragraph (h), “concessionaire” (“consesiynydd”), “road subject to a concession” (“ffordd sy’n ddarostyngedig i gonsesiwn”) and “toll order” (“gorchymyn tollau”) have the same meaning as in Part I of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (new roads in England and Wales);\n(f) in paragraph (i), “street” (“stryd”) has the same meaning as in section 48(1) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (streets, street works and undertakers), and “new street” (“stryd newydd”) includes a continuation of an existing street;\n(g) in paragraph (j), “householder development” (“datblygiad gan ddeiliad tŷ”) means—\n(i) the enlargement, improvement or other alteration of a dwellinghouse, or development within the curtilage of such a dwellinghouse, or\n(ii) a change of use to enlarge the curtilage of a dwellinghouse,\nfor any purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse but does not include—\n(aa) any other change of use,\n(bb) the erection of a dwellinghouse, or\n(cc) a change to the number of dwellings in a building;\n(h) in paragraph (l)—\n(i) “scheduled monument” (“heneb gofrestredig”) has the same meaning as in section 3(7) of the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 (schedule of monuments);\n(ii) reference to the height of development is be construed as a reference to its height when measured from ground level; and for the purposes of this paragraph “ground level” (“lefel y ddaear”) means the level of the surface of the ground immediately adjacent to the development in question or, where the level of the surface of the ground on which it is situated or is to be situated is not uniform, the level of the highest part of the surface of the ground adjacent to it;\n(iii) “registered historic park or garden” (“parc hanesyddol cofrestredig neu ardal hanesyddol gofrestredig”) and “registered historic landscape” (“tirwedd hanesyddol gofrestredig”) means the park, garden or landscape is included in the Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales maintained by the Welsh Ministers;\n(iv) “World Heritage Site” (“Safle Treftadaeth y Byd”) means land appearing on the World Heritage List kept under article 11(2) of the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage adopted at Paris on 16th November 1972 ;\n(i) in paragraph (o)—\n(i) “slurry” (“slyri”) means animal faeces and urine (whether or not water has been added for handling), and\n(ii) “caravan” (“carafán”) has the same meaning as in section 29(1) of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (caravan sites);\n(j) in paragraph (q), “site of special scientific interest” (“safle o ddiddordeb gwyddonol arbennig”) means land to which section 28(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (sites of special scientific interest) applies;\n(k) in paragraph (r), theatre” (“theatr”) has the same meaning as in section 5 of the Theatres Trust Act 1976 (interpretation) and “householder development” (“datblygiad gan ddeiliad tŷ”) has the same meaning as in paragraph (j);\n(l) in paragraph (u)—\n(i) “playing field” (“maes chwarae”) means the whole of a site which encompasses at least one playing pitch;\n(ii) “playing pitch” (“llain chwarae”) means a delineated area which, together with any run-off area, is of 0.2 hectares or more, and which is used for association football, American football, rugby, cricket, hockey, lacrosse, rounders, baseball, softball, Australian football, Gaelic football, shinty, hurling, polo or cycle polo;\n(m) in paragraph (w)—\n(i) the expressions “major accident” and “establishment” as they appear in that paragraph have the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015.\n(ii) “control of major accident hazards competent authority” (“awdurdod cymwys rheoli peryglon damweiniau mawr”) means—\n(aa) in relation to a relevant nuclear site, the Office of Nuclear Regulation and the Natural Resources Body for Wales, acting jointly;\n(bb) otherwise, the Health and Safety Executive and the Natural Resources Body for Wales acting jointly; ...\n(n) in paragraph (x)—\n“Rivers and Sea – Flood Zone 2” (“Afonydd a’r Môr – Parth Llifogydd 2”) means an area with less than a 1 in 100 chance of flooding from rivers and less than 1 in 200 chance of flooding from the sea but greater than 1 in 1000 chance of flooding from rivers and the sea in a given year, including climate change;\n“Rivers and Sea – Flood Zone 3” (“Afonydd a’r Môr – Parth Llifogydd 3”) means an area with a greater than 1 in 100 chance of flooding from rivers in a given year, including climate change, and a greater than 1 in 200 chance of flooding from the sea in a given year, including climate change;\n“TAN 15 Defended Zones” (“Parthau Amddiffynedig TAN 15”) means areas where flood risk management infrastructure provides a minimum standard of protection against flooding of 1 in 100 from rivers and 1 in 200 from the sea (plus climate change and freeboard) as set out in the Flood Map for Planning published by the Natural Resources Body for Wales.\n(o) in paragraph (z) “house in multiple occupation” does not include a converted block of flats to which section 257 of the Housing Act 2004 applies but otherwise has the same meaning as in section 254 of the Housing Act 2004.",
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  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 substituted (16.3.2016) by The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/59), art. 1(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 substituted (16.3.2016) by The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/59), art. 1(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 substituted (4.11.2024) by The Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 (Consequential Provision) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/924), regs. 1(2), 61"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/456), regs. 1, 4(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 omitted (24.1.2022) by virtue of The Development Procedure (Consultees) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1189), arts. 1(2)(b), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 substituted (21.4.2025) by The Development Procedure (Consultees) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/400), arts. 1(2), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 substituted (1.8.2025) by The Amendments to Subordinate Legislation (Minimum Landing Size and Miscellaneous Corrections) (Wales) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/815), arts. 1(2), 14(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 inserted (24.1.2022) by The Development Procedure (Consultees) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1189), arts. 1(2)(b), 2(3)(c)"
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