3.—(1) Where a request for pre-application services is made to a local planning authority under the 2016 Regulations, a fee must be paid to the authority.
(2) The fee payable under this regulation is the amount set out in the relevant row of column 3.
(3) The fee must accompany the request.
(4) If the applicant fails to pay the fee under this regulation, the local planning authority need take no steps in relation to the request until payment is received by the authority.
(5) Any fee paid pursuant to this regulation must be refunded if the request is rejected as invalid.
(6) In this regulation “the local planning authority” (“yr awdurdod cynllunio lleol”) means the local planning authority to which, but for section 62D of the 1990 Act, the proposed application would have been made.