Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General – in the Senedd at 2:20 pm on 28 November 2018.
Thank you to the Member for that further question. The legislative framework sets out the minimum requirements and responsibilities of local authorities to advertise. It has to be done close to the area and in a newspaper and, on top of that, flexibility is available for local authorities to expand the advertising that’s done for plans such as these. It’s a responsibility on them to ensure that the types of advertisements are suitable and, as I said earlier, to ensure that there is a public register maintained, so that the public can access and understand what the plans are. Of course, there is an opportunity for anyone who has a complaint in this area against a local authority for not reaching the statutory minimum, or for not ensuring specific or suitable measures—it is open to them, of course, to take up the issue with the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales and take their complaint through that official process.