Register of applications and pre-application services
Section 128 – Register of applications and pre-application services
339.Section 128 requires the Welsh Ministers to maintain a register of:
applications for infrastructure consent;
applications received by the Welsh Ministers for pre-application services;
pre-application services provided by the Welsh Ministers.
340.The Welsh Ministers must include details in the register of valid applications, requests for pre-application services and pre-application services provided.
341.The register must be published (subsection (5)).
342.The Welsh Ministers may, by regulations, require a planning authority to maintain a register of the applications for infrastructure consent in its area, of applications for pre-application services received by the planning authority and of any pre-application services provided by the authority (subsection (6)).
343.The Welsh Ministers may, by regulations, also require Natural Resources Wales to maintain a register of applications that they receive for pre-application services, as well as any pre-application services provided by them in respect of an application.
344.Subsection (8) enables the Welsh Ministers to make regulations in relation to the form, content of any register required by or under the section and may make other provision in respect of public access to documents relating to entries in the register or the timing of entries.