A pre-application consultation is required if development meets any of the following:-

It is Major development if it meets one or more of the following:-

(a) the winning and working of minerals or the use of land for mineral-working deposits(4);

(b) waste development;

(c) the provision of dwellinghouses where—

(i) the number of dwellinghouses to be provided is 10 or more; or

(ii) the development is to be carried out on a site having an area of 0.5 hectares or more and (number of dwellinghouses not known) it is not known whether the development falls within sub-paragraph (c)(i);

(d) the provision of a building or buildings where the floor space to be created by the development is 1,000 square metres or more; or

(e) development carried out on a site having an area of 1 hectare or more;

OR

It is Development of National Significance