Commentary on Sections Application procedure Section 36 – Local impact reports
92.Section 36 makes provision about local planning authorities and community councils responding to notification or publicity about proposed development by a local impact report which is a report that gives details of the likely impact of a proposed development within the area of a local authority and community council.
93.Where a proposed development is in the area of a local planning authority and the authority receives notification of an accepted application under section 34(2)(a)(i) the authority must submit a local impact report to the Welsh Ministers before the deadline specified in the notice.
94.A community council which is notified of a proposed development under section 34(2)(a)(ii) may also, but is not required to, submit a local impact report to the Welsh Ministers before the deadline specified in the notice.
95.Where a proposed development is in the Welsh marine area, any local planning authority or community council which is given notice of the proposed development under section 34(2)(b)(ii) may submit a local impact report to the Welsh Ministers before the deadline specified in the notice.
96.Where a planning authority or community council submits a local impact report otherwise than in response to a notice under section 34(2), they must submit the local impact report to the Welsh Ministers before the deadline specified in the publicity undertaken under section 34(3).
97.This section also provides the Welsh Ministers with a regulation-making power to prescribe the form and content of a local impact report and any report submitted to the Welsh Ministers must comply with the requirements specified in the regulations.