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

Public inspection of opinions and directions

6.—(1) The relevant planning authority shall make available for public inspection at all reasonable hours at the place where the appropriate register (or relevant section of that register) is kept a copy of—

(a) every opinion given by the authority under regulation 3;

(b) the accompanying statement of reasons (if any);

(c) the application to which the opinion relates;

(d) the documents which accompanied the application;

(e) every direction or opinion received by the authority under regulation 4 or 5; and

(f) the statement of reasons (if any) accompanying each such direction or opinion,

and those copies shall remain so available for a period of two years or until particulars of the opinion or direction are entered in Part I of the register in accordance with paragraph (2), whichever is the sooner.

(2) Where particulars of an application for planning permission are entered in Part I of the appropriate register, the local planning authority shall take steps to secure that that Part also contains such particulars of—

(a) any opinion given under regulation 3; and

(b) any direction or opinion given under regulation 4 or 5,

as are relevant to the development which is the subject of the application.

(3) In this regulation, “appropriate register” means the register kept pursuant to section 69 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(1) on which particulars of an application for planning permission for the development concerned are required to be entered.

(1)

Section 69 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), Schedule 7, paragraph 13.