The Town and Country Planning (Referrals and Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Representations

7.—(1) The relevant notice, and the documents accompanying it, will be deemed to comprise the appellant’s representations in relation to the appeal.

(2) The local planning authority may elect to treat the questionnaire, and the documents sent with it, as its representations in relation to the appeal and, where it does so, it must notify the National Assembly and the appellant accordingly when it sends to the National Assembly, and copies to the appellant, the questionnaire in accordance with regulation 6.

(3) Where the local planning authority does not elect as described in paragraph (2), it must ensure that 2 copies of those further written representations are received by the National Assembly within 6 weeks of the starting date.

(4) An appellant who wishes to make any further representations to those in paragraph (1) must send 2 copies of those further representations to the National Assembly so as to be received within 6 weeks of the starting date.

(5) Any representations made to the National Assembly under paragraphs (3) and (4) must be dated with the date on which they are sent to the National Assembly.

(6) The National Assembly must, as soon as practicable after receipt, send to the appellant a copy of any representations sent to it by the local planning authority and must send to the local planning authority a copy of any representations sent to it by the appellant.

(7) The appellant and the local planning authority must send to the National Assembly 2 copies of any written comments they have on each other’s representations so as to be received within 9 weeks of the starting date and the National Assembly must, as soon as practicable after receipt, send a copy of those further comments to the other party.

(8) The National Assembly may disregard further information from the appellant and the local planning authority which is not received within 9 weeks of the starting date unless that further information has been requested by it.