{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-enforcement-inquiries-procedure-wales-rules-2003/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1269",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Enforcement) (Inquiries Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-enforcement-inquiries-procedure-wales-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Preliminary information to be supplied by the local planning authority",
  "text": "(1) The National Assembly must, as soon as practicable after it is determined to hold an inquiry under these Rules, inform the appellant and the local planning authority in writing that an inquiry is to be held.\n(2) The local planning authority must—\n(a) send to the National Assembly and the appellant a completed questionnaire, and a copy of each of the documents referred to in it, so as to be received within 2 weeks of the starting date;\n(b) in the case of an enforcement appeal, notify any—\n(i) person on whom a copy of an enforcement notice has been served;\n(ii) occupier of property in the locality in which the land to which the enforcement notice relates is situated; and\n(iii) other person who in the opinion of the local planning authority is affected by the breach of planning control or contravention of listed building or conservation area control which is alleged in the enforcement notice,\nthat an appeal has been made and of the address to which, and the period within which, they may make representations to the National Assembly; such notification to be sent so as to be received within 2 weeks of the starting date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/2285",
      "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Amendment of Appeals Procedures) (Wales) Rules 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1269/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:24:13.123830+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."
}