The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988

Provision of information for environmental statement

8.—(1) This regulation applies where—

(a) (i) the planning authority have given an opinion under regulation 7(4); or

(ii) the planning authority have received a direction from the Secretary of State under regulation 10 (other than where the direction relates to a determination by the Secretary of State under section 32 or 33);

that the proposed development would fall within any of the descriptions of development mentioned in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 and would be likely to have significant effects on the environment; or

(b) under regulation 14(1) the planning authority have notified an applicant for planning permission that the application for planning permission is an application to which regulation 6 applies.

(2) Where this regulation applies, the planning authority shall—

(a) inform the authorities, bodies and persons mentioned in Schedule 4—

(i) of the requirement for an environmental statement;

(ii) that they may be required to make available to the applicant, in accordance with regulation 23, any information in their possession which he or they consider relevant to the preparation of the environmental statement; and

(b) inform the applicant—

(i) of what they have done under sub-paragraph (a);

(ii) of their view that he should provide an environmental statement;

(iii) that the planning authority is a body required under regulation 23 to provide him with any relevant information in their possession; and

(iv) that he shall supply the authorities, bodies and persons mentioned in Schedule 4 and the planning authority with such further information about the proposed development as they may request.