s 62M Option to make application directly to Welsh Ministers
(1) If the following conditions are met, a qualifying application that would otherwise have to be made to the local planning authority may (if the applicant so chooses) instead be made to the Welsh Ministers. (2) The first condition is that the local planning authority is designated by the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of this section. (3) The second condition is that— (a) the development to which the application relates, in the case of a qualifying application within subsection (4)(a), or (b) the development for which the outline planning permission has been granted, in the case of a qualifying application within subsection (4)(b), is development of a description prescribed by regulations made by the Welsh Ministers. (4) A qualifying application, for the purposes of this section, is— (a) an application for planning permission for the development of land in Wales ... ; (b) an application for approval of a matter that, for the purposes of section 92, is a reserved matter in the case of an outline planning permission for the development of land in Wales. (5) But an application within subsection (6) that would otherwise be a qualifying application for the purposes of this section is not to be treated as such unless it is an application of a description prescribed in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers. (6) An application is within this subsection if it is an application for planning permission for the development of land without complying with conditions subject to which a previous planning permission was granted.