(1) This Order may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2002 and comes into force on the 1st August 2002.
(2) This Order applies to Wales.
S.I. 2002/1877 (W.)
The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/1877 (W.))
This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 in relation to Wales so as to require any application to a local planning authority in Wales for planning permission for development which involves the construction or installation of one or more antennas for the purpose of operating a telecommunications system to be accompanied by a written declaration that the equipment and installation to which the application relates is so designed that it will, when constructed or installed, operate in full compliance with the requirements of the radio frequency public exposure guidelines of the International Commission on Non-ionising Radiation Protection.
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In this Order, βthe 1995 Order β means the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 and any reference to a numbered article is a reference to the article bearing that number in the 1995 Order.
Insert in the 1995 Order, after Article 5β
Declaration to accompany application to a local planning authority in Wales for planning permission for certain telecommunications developments.
(5A)
(1) This article applies to any application for planning permission which:
(a) is made to a local planning authority in Wales; and
(b) relates to development which involves the construction or installation of one or more antennas for the purpose of operating a telecommunications system .
(2) For the purposes of this Articleβ
βtelecommunications systemβ has the meaning assigned to that term by section 4(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1984 (meaning of βtelecommunications systemβ and related expressions);
(3) An application to which this Article applies must be accompanied by a written declaration that the equipment and installation to which the application relates is so designed that it will, when constructed or installed, operate, having regard to its location and the manner in which it has been constructed or installed, in full compliance with the requirements of the radio frequency public exposure guidelines of the International Commission on Non-ionising Radiation Protection, as expressed in EU Council recommendation of 12 July 1999 on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz ).
The amendments made to the 1995 Order by this Order do not apply in relation to applications for planning permission which are made before this Order comes into force.
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