The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2017

4.—(1) Where, on consideration of a purchase notice it appears to the Welsh Ministers that—

(a) the relevant application is, or would be, a Schedule 1 application or a Schedule 2 application; and

(b) the development in question—

(i) has not been the subject of a screening opinion or screening direction; or

(ii) has been the subject of a screening opinion or direction before planning permission was granted or modified to the effect that it is not EIA development; and

(c) the relevant application is not accompanied by a statement referred to by the applicant as an environmental statement for the purposes of these Regulations paragraphs (3) and (4) of regulation 7 apply as if the request for confirmation of the purchase notice were a request made by the applicant pursuant to regulation 6(8).

(2) Where regulation 7(3) applies by virtue of paragraph (1), the Welsh Ministers must, where and insofar as necessary to ensure that the applicant has provided, in the case of—

(a) applications where no screening opinion or direction has been made, the information referred to in regulation 6(2); and

(b) other applications, the information referred to in regulation 6(3),

make a request for additional information before issuing a screening direction.