The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2012

Amendment of the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992

2.—(1) The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992(1) are amended as follows.

(2) For regulation 9 substitute—

“Applications for express consent

9.— (1) An application for express consent must be made to the local planning authority.

(2) Subject to paragraph 6, the application must be made electronically or in hard copy on a form published by the Welsh Ministers or a form substantially to the same effect.

(3) The applicant must—

(a) include the particulars specified in the form; and

(b) send with the application (whether electronically or otherwise) a plan which—

(i) is drawn to an identified scale,

(ii) shows the direction of north,

(iii) identifies the location of the site by reference to at least two named roads, and

(iv) identifies the proposed position of the advertisement.

(4) Unless an application is made electronically or the local planning authority indicates that fewer copies are required, three copies of the completed form and the plan must accompany the application.

(5) Where the application is one to which directions given by the Welsh Ministers under regulation 10 apply, the applicant must send with the application (whether electronically or otherwise) such particulars, plans or information specified or referred to in those directions as may have been notified to the applicant by the local planning authority.

(6) An application made on or after 30 April 2012 and before 31 May 2012, otherwise than by a local planning authority, may be made in writing on a form devised by the local planning authority.

(7) Where an application is made electronically, the applicant is taken to have agreed—

(a) to the use by the local planning authority of electronic communication for the purposes of the application;

(b) that the applicant’s address for that purpose is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, the application; and

(c) that deemed agreement under this paragraph subsists until the applicant gives notice in writing—

(i) withdrawing any address notified to the authority for that purpose, or

(ii) revoking that deemed agreement,

and such withdrawal or revocation is final and takes effect on a date specified by the applicant in the notice at least seven days after the date on which the notice is given.

(8) An application made electronically must, unless the contrary is proved, be treated as having been delivered at 9.00 a.m. on the next working day after the day on which it is transmitted.

(9) This regulation applies to applications for renewal consent as it applies to applications for consent.

(10) An application for the renewal of an express consent may not be made more than 6 months before the date on which the consent is due to expire.”.

(1)

S.I. 1992/666, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.