Amendments relating to the duty to respond to consultation: annual reports7

In article 15B12—

a

after paragraph 1 insert—

1A

Each consultee who is, by virtue of article 2E, under a duty to respond to pre-application consultation must, in the report given to the Welsh Ministers in accordance with paragraph (1), include a report as to that consultee’s compliance with that article.

b

in paragraph (3)(d) after “for the purposes of section 54(4) of the 2004 Act” insert “or, as the case may be, the period specified in or referred to in article 2E(1)”;

c

after paragraph 3(d) insert—

4

In this article “substantive response” means either a substantive response to the applicant or local planning authority in accordance with articles 2E or 15A.