Commentary on Sections Part 3 — Buildings of special architectural or historic interest Chapter 2 — Control of works affecting listed buildings Section 105 — Applications by planning authorities and the Crown
360.Section 105 provides that the Welsh Ministers may make regulations to provide that any provisions of the Act, or of regulations made under the Act, do not apply, or apply with modifications, to particular applications made by a planning authority or by or on behalf of the Crown. Subsection (2) provides that the applications in question are ones for listed building consent, the variation or removal of consent conditions, or approval of details of works under a consent condition.
361.Subsection (3) provides that the regulations may, in particular, require applications to be made to the Welsh Ministers.
362.Under the 2012 regulations, a planning authority must apply to the Welsh Ministers for listed building consent for the demolition of a listed building in its ownership. A planning authority may determine its own applications for listed building consent if they do not involve demolition. Unless the Welsh Ministers have directed otherwise under section 95, a planning authority must advise the Welsh Ministers if it is minded to approve an application, which gives the Welsh Ministers an opportunity to call the application in.