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

Publicity for environmental statements or further information E+W

44.—(1) Where a relevant planning authority receives a copy of an environmental statement or further information by virtue of regulation 42(a) or any other information it must publish by local advertisement a notice stating—

(a) the name of the appellant and that the enforcement notice has been appealed to the Secretary of State;

(b) the address or location of the land to which the notice relates and the nature of the development;

(c) sufficient information to enable any planning permission for the development to be identified;

(d) that a copy of the environmental statement, further information or any other information and of any planning permission may be inspected by members of the public at all reasonable hours;

(e) an address in the locality in which the land is situated at which the environmental statement or further information or any other information may be inspected, and the latest date on which it will be available for inspection (being a date not less than 30 days later than the date on which the notice is published);

(f) details of a website maintained by or on behalf of the authority on which those documents may be inspected, and the latest date on which they will be available for access (being a date not less than 30 days later than the date on which the notice is published);

(g) that any person wishing to make representations about any matter dealt with in the environmental statement or further information or any other information should make them in writing before the latest date named in accordance with sub-paragraph (e) or (f), to the Secretary of State; and

(h) the address to which any such representations should be sent.

(2) The authority must as soon as practicable after publication of a notice in accordance with paragraph (1) send to the Secretary of State a copy of the notice certified by or on behalf of the authority as having been published by local advertisement on a date specified in the certificate.

(3) Neither the Secretary of State receiving a certificate under paragraph (2) nor an inspector shall determine the ground (a) appeal in respect of the development to which the certificate relates until the expiry of 30 days from the date stated in the published notice as the last date on which the statement or further information was available for inspection.