Procedure to facilitate preparation of environmental statementsS
16.—(1) Any person who intends to submit an environmental statement to the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers under these Regulations may give notice in writing to that planning authority or the Scottish Ministers under this paragraph.
(2) A notice under paragraph (1) must include the information necessary to identify the land and the nature and purpose of the development, and must indicate the main environmental consequences to which the person giving the notice proposes to refer in the environmental statement.
(3) Where the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers receive notice under paragraph (1) or a written statement made pursuant to regulation 9(3)(a), 11(3), 12(2) or 13(2)(a), they must—
(a)notify the consultation bodies in writing of the name and address of the person who intends to submit an environmental statement and of the duty imposed on the consultation bodies by paragraph (4) to make information available to that person; and
(b)inform in writing the person who intends to submit an environmental statement of the names and addresses of the bodies so notified.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the planning authority and any body notified in accordance with paragraph (3) must, if requested by the person who intends to submit an environmental statement, enter into consultation with that person to determine whether the planning authority or consultation body have in their possession any information which that person or they consider relevant to the preparation of the environmental statement, and the planning authority or consultation body must make any such information available to that person.
(5) In relation to a person to which the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 M1 apply, paragraph (4) does not require disclosure of information which the person—
(a)may refuse to disclose under regulation 10(1) of those Regulations; or
(b)is prevented from disclosing by regulation 11(1) of those Regulations.
(6) In relation to a person to which the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 apply, paragraph (4) does not require disclosure of information which the person—
(a)may refuse to disclose under regulation 12(1) of those Regulations; or
(b)is prevented from disclosing by regulation 13(1) of those Regulations.
(7) A reasonable charge reflecting the cost of making the relevant information available may be made by any person who makes information available in accordance with paragraph (4).
Marginal Citations
M1S.S.I. 2004/520.