PART 5Appeals under section 19 of the principal Act

Notification to interested parties26.

(1)

The planning authority must not later than 14 days following the date of receipt of the notification of appeal given under regulation 25(1) give notice of the appeal to each interested party.

(2)

Notice under paragraph (1) may be given—

(a)

by post to any interested party notified or consulted under these Regulations other than by newspaper advertisement; and

(b)

by post or by advertisement in a newspaper circulating in the locality in which the land to which the appeal relates is situated, to any other interested party.

(3)

Notice under paragraph (1) must—

(a)

state the name of the appellant;

(b)

include a description of the proposal to which the appeal relates;

(c)

include the postal address of the land to which the appeal relates, or if the land in question has no postal address, a description of the location of the land;

(d)

state that a copy of any representation previously made to the planning authority, other than a representation which the interested party who made it has asked to be treated as confidential, will be sent to the Scottish Ministers and the appellant and will be taken into consideration in the determination of the appeal;

(e)

state that further representations may be made to the Scottish Ministers and include information as to how representations may be made and by what date they must be made; and

(f)

state where and when a copy of the notice of appeal and other documents related to the appeal may be inspected.

(4)

An interested party may, within a period of 14 days beginning with the date on which notice is given under paragraph (1), make representations in respect of the appeal to the Scottish Ministers.

(5)

The Scottish Ministers must send a copy of any representations received under paragraph (4) to the appellant and to the planning authority and inform them how and by what date (being a date not less than 14 days after the date on which such copy is sent under this paragraph) they may make comments to the Scottish Ministers on such representations.

(6)

The appellant and the planning authority may, on or before that date, make comments on such representations to the Scottish Ministers.