s 316 Land of interested planning authorities and development by them.
(1) The provisions of Parts III, VII and VIII of this Act shall apply in relation to— (a) land of interested planning authorities; and (b) the development of any land by interested planning authorities or by such authorities jointly with any other persons, subject to regulations made by virtue of this section. (2) The regulations may, in relation to such land or such development— (a) provide for any of those provisions to apply subject to prescribed exceptions or modifications or not to apply; (b) make new provision as to any matter dealt with in any of those provisions; (c) make different provision in relation to different classes of land or development. (3) Without prejudice to subsection (2), the regulations may provide— (a) subject to subsection (5), for applications for planning permission to develop such land, or for such development, to be determined by the authority concerned, by another interested planning authority or by the Secretary of State; and (b) for the procedure to be followed on such applications, and, in the case of applications falling to be determined by an interested planning authority, they may regulate the authority’s arrangements for the discharge of their functions, notwithstanding any provision made by or under sections 319ZA to 319ZC or anything in section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972. (4) The regulations shall— (a) provide for section 71(3), and any provision made by virtue of section 65 or 71 by a development order, to apply to applications for planning permission to develop such land, or for such development, land of an interested planning authority other than the Welsh Ministers, or for the development of land by an interested planning authority other than the Welsh Ministers, subject to prescribed exceptions or modifications, or (b) make corresponding provision. (5) In the case of any application for planning permission to develop land of an interested planning authority other than the Welsh Ministers where— (a) the authority do not intend to develop the land themselves or jointly with any other person; and (b) if it were not such land, the application would fall to be determined by another body, the regulations shall provide for the application to be determined by that other body, unless the application is referred to the Secretary of State under section 77. (6) In this section “ interested planning authority ”, in relation to any land, means any body which exercises any of the functions of a local planning authority in relation to that land or the Welsh Ministers ; and for the purposes of this section land is land of an authority if the authority have any interest in it. (7) This section applies— (a) to permission in principle to develop any land, and (b) to any consent required in respect of any land, as it applies to planning permission to develop land. (8) Subsection (1) does not apply to sections 76, 90(2) and (5) and 223. (9) The power to make regulations under this section relating to land of the Welsh Ministers or to the development of land by the Welsh Ministers is exercisable by the Welsh Ministers.