The Electricity (Offshore Generating Stations) (Applications for Consent) (Wales) Regulations 2019

Scope of public inquiries where there are one or more relevant planning authorities

11.—(1) This regulation applies where—

(a) a public inquiry is to be held in accordance with regulation 9(1) or 10; and

(b) the application relates to a place a part of which is in the area of one or more relevant planning authorities.

(2) Except in so far as the Welsh Ministers otherwise direct, an inquiry held under regulation 9(1) must be confined to so much of the application as relates to land within the area of the authority by whom an objection has been made.

(3) The Welsh Ministers must have regard to objections made otherwise than by the authority in question in determining whether to give a direction under paragraph (2) and in determining (where they give one) what direction to give.

(4) The Welsh Ministers may direct that separate inquiries may be held in relation to any or each of the following—

(a) so much of the application as relates to land within the area of a particular relevant planning authority;

(b) so much of the application as relates to anywhere that is not within the area of a relevant planning authority.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (2) a planning authority that has made an objection is to be treated as not having done so if the Welsh Ministers propose to accede to the application subject to such modifications or conditions as meet that objection.