The Town and Country Planning (Local Development Plan) (Wales) Regulations 2005

Changes proposed by the National Assembly to an LDP (call-in)E+W

31.—(1) If the National Assembly proposes to depart from the recommendations of the person appointed to carry out an examination under section 64, it must publish—

(a)the changes it proposes to make; and

(b)its reasons for doing so.

(2) As soon as reasonably practicable after the National Assembly complies with paragraph (1), the LPA must—

(a)make copies of the changes and reasons and a statement of the matters in paragraph (3) available for inspection during normal office hours at the places at which the pre-deposit proposals documents were made available under regulation 15 [F1or 26B as the case may be];

(b)publish on its website—

(i)the changes and reasons,

(ii)the matters in paragraph (3),

(iii)a statement of the fact that the changes and reasons are available for inspection and the places and times at which they can be inspected; [F2and]

(c)send copies of the changes and reasons to the bodies referred to in paragraph (4) and notify those bodies of the matters referred to in paragraph (3); F3...

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(3) The matters referred to in paragraph (2) are—

(a)the period within which representations on the changes must be made;

(b)the address at the National Assembly to which and, where appropriate, the person to whom representations (whether made by way of electronic communications or otherwise) must be sent; and

(c)a statement that any representations made may be accompanied by a request to be notified at a specified address of the National Assembly’s decision under section 65(9)(a).

(4) The bodies referred to in paragraph (2)(c) are—

(a)each of the specific consultation bodies to the extent that the National Assembly thinks the changes affect those bodies; and

(b)such of the general consultation bodies as the National Assembly considers appropriate.