PART 3BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST
CHAPTER 2CONTROL OF WORKS AFFECTING LISTED BUILDINGS
Special cases
I1106Applications relating to urgent works on Crown land
1
The appropriate Crown authority may make an application for listed building consent to the Welsh Ministers (instead of to a planning authority) if—
a
the listed building to which the application relates is on Crown land, and
b
the appropriate Crown authority certifies—
i
that the works for which consent is sought are of national importance, and
ii
that it is necessary that the works are carried out as a matter of urgency.
2
Before making the application, the appropriate Crown authority must publish in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality of the listed building a notice—
a
describing the proposed works, and
b
stating that it proposes to make the application to the Welsh Ministers under this section.
3
Where the appropriate Crown authority makes an application under this section—
a
it must give the Welsh Ministers a statement of its grounds for making the application;
b
the Welsh Ministers may require it to give them any further information they consider necessary to enable them to determine the application.
4
As soon as practicable after receiving a document or other material by virtue of subsection (3), the Welsh Ministers must make a copy of the document or other material available for inspection by the public in the locality of the proposed works.
5
The Welsh Ministers must, in accordance with any requirements imposed by regulations, publish notice of the application and of the fact that documents and other material are available for inspection.
6
The Welsh Ministers must consult the following persons about the application—
a
the planning authority in whose area the listed building is situated, and
b
any other person that may be specified in regulations.
7
Chapter 2 of Part 5 makes provision about the procedure for the consideration of applications made to the Welsh Ministers under this section.
8
Subsection (4) does not apply to the extent that a document or other material is subject to a direction under section 178 (restriction of access to evidence on national security grounds).
9
The decision of the Welsh Ministers on an application is final.
10
In this section references to regulations are to regulations made by the Welsh Ministers.