The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Additional information

13.—(1) If, after complying with regulation 12(3) the Department decides that it requires any additional environmental information in order to decide whether to grant, or refuse to grant, consent for a significant project, it must notify the applicant of the information required, and the applicant must provide the Department with that information.

(2) The Department shall—

(a) send a copy of the additional environmental information to such of the consultation bodies as it thinks fit; and

(b) inform them that they may make representations within 28 days of the date they receive it.

(3) The Department must publish on its website and in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the relevant land a notice—

(a) referring to the application to which the additional environmental information relates and the date the application was made;

(b) stating that the additional environmental information has been received;

(c) specifying an address—

(i) at which copies of the additional environmental information can be inspected free of charge, and

(ii) where copies of the additional environmental information may be taken,

at all reasonable hours within 35 days of the date the notice is published; and

(d) stating that representations in relation to the additional environmental information may be made in writing to the Department at the address in sub-paragraph (c) within 35 days of the date the notice is published.

(4) The Department may make a reasonable charge for copies referred to in paragraph (3)(c)(ii).