Environmental Impact Assessment (Uncultivated Land and Semi-Natural Areas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

The consent application

9.—(1) An application for consent for a project (which shall include the environmental statement) shall be made to the Department.

(2) The applicant shall provide to the Department such number of copies of the application as it may reasonably require.

(3) After the Department has received an application for consent for a project in accordance with paragraph (1) and (2) it shall—

(a) send a copy of the application to such of the consultation bodies as it thinks fit and inform them that they may make representations within six weeks from the date of receipt of that copy; and

(b) for the purpose of ensuring that members of the public concerned are given an opportunity to make representations before the application is determined, publish in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the project a notice:—

(i) announcing that the application has been made;

(ii) specifying an address at which copies of the application may be inspected free of charge and where anyone who wishes to obtain copies of the application may do so (for which a reasonable charge may be made) at all reasonable hours within six weeks beginning from the date of publication of the notice; and

(iii) stating that any person wishing to make any representations in relation to the likely environmental effects of the project shall make them in writing to the Department at the address specified at paragraph (b) within six weeks from the publication of the notice.