The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Assessment and Unauthorised Development) Regulations 1995

Further information and evidence respecting environmental statements

9.—(1) The Secretary of State may in writing require an appellant who has submitted an environmental statement otherwise than as mentioned in regulation 7(2) to provide such further information as may be specified concerning any matter which is required to be, or may be, dealt with in the statement; and where the Secretary of State is of the opinion that—

(a) the appellant could (having regard in particular to current knowledge and methods of assessment) provide further information about any matter mentioned in paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the 1988 Regulations; and

(b) that further information is reasonably required to give proper consideration to the likely environmental effects of the unauthorised development,

he shall notify the appellant in writing accordingly, and the appellant shall provide that further information within the period specified in the notice or such longer period as the Secretary of State may, by notice in writing to the appellant, allow.

(2) If an appellant to whom notice has been given under paragraph (1) fails to provide the further information within the period specified or allowed (as the case may be), the deemed application and the ground (a) appeal (if any) shall lapse at the end of that period.

(3) Regulation 8 shall apply in relation to further information received by the Secretary of State in accordance with paragraph (1) as if references in that regulation to an environmental statement were references to the further information.

(4) The Secretary of State may by notice in writing require the appellant to produce such evidence as he may reasonably call for to verify any information in the environmental statement.