Yes. Thanks, Delyth. There will be two opportunities, and in reality, actually, probably more than two opportunities. So, we're going to enshrine a pre-application stage, where there's a consultation process associated with that. We will set that out in secondary legislation because it will have some detail in it about what you have to do. That will have to be done before the application goes in, the application will have to reflect it, obviously, and so on. But then, actually, during the actual progress of the application, there's a—I can't remember what it's called now—publicity and consultation phase, so there's another phase. So, you'll have two bites of the cherry. One is pre application, when we expect that the developers will do a lot of publicity about what they're proposing and seek views on it, but then there'll be an actual consultation during the process, where you get the traditional—you're notified that there's an application that affects you and you get the chance to come in.
We'll continue to fund Planning Aid Wales, for example, to assist people to know how to do it, but I do genuinely feel that it's a simpler and more straightforward process. If you think about it now, you also have a licensing process and I, personally, in my own constituency, have been very frustrated by being told that I'm commenting on things that aren't yet under consideration because they're for the planning. Or, conversely, I'm now commenting on things in the planning that were dealt with in the licensing, and it's deeply frustrating—people get very cross about it. So, that won't happen, you'll be able to do the whole thing in a single piece.
I also think, and I've had this discussion in committee before, that, actually, the developers will do a pre pre-application process, so before they go into the formal thing, they'll do some informal stuff. So, I think in practice, you'll end up with three bites of the cherry, because they've got to spend a lot of money on this, so they'll poke their finger into it a little bit beforehand. I was asked in a previous committee why we don't regulate that, and my view is that it doesn't matter how far back you regulate it, they'll do something before the regulated bit. Because they'll want to see whether it's worth spending all this money, and that's what that first bit will be. So, we will regulate the pre-application process. They will have had to have done some things before applying, and then, as part of the application process, there's another consultation point. So, I do, honest to God, think it will be a more streamlined thing, both for us to help our constituents with and for people to actually take part in it.