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2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the Act" means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 M1 and references to sections are references to sections of that Act;
“the consultation bodies" means—
any body which the relevant planning authority is required to consult, or would, if an application for planning permission for the development in question were before them, be required to consult by virtue of article 10 (consultations before the grant of permission) of the Order or of any direction under that article; and
the following bodies if not referred to in sub-paragraph (a)—
any principal council for the area where the land is situated, if not the relevant planning authority;
where the land is situated in England, the Countryside Commission M2 and the Nature Conservancy Council for England M3;
where the land is situated in Wales, the Countryside Council for Wales M4; and
the Environment Agency M5;
“the Directive" means Council Directive 85/337/EEC M6;
“EIA application" means an application for planning permission for EIA development;
“EIA development" means development which is either—
Schedule 1 development; or
Schedule 2 development likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue of factors such as its nature, size or location;
“environmental information" means the environmental statement, including any further information, any representations made by any body required by these Regulations to be invited to make representations, and any representations duly made by any other person about the environmental effects of the development;
“environmental statement" means a statement—
that includes such of the information referred to in Part I of Schedule 4 as is reasonably required to assess the environmental effects of the development and which the applicant can, having regard in particular to current knowledge and methods of assessment, reasonably be required to compile, but
that includes at least the information referred to in Part II of Schedule 4;
“exempt development" means development which comprises or forms part of a project serving national defence purposes or in respect of which the Secretary of State has made a direction under regulation 4(4);
“further information" has the meaning given in regulation 19(1);
“General Regulations" means the Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992 M7;
“inspector" means a person appointed by the Secretary of State pursuant to Schedule 6 to the Act M8 to determine an appeal;
“the land" means the land on which the development would be carried out or, in relation to development already carried out, has been carried out;
“the Order" means the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 M9;
“principal council" has the meaning given by sub-section (1) of section 270 (general provisions as to interpretation) of the Local Government Act 1972 M10;
“register" means a register kept pursuant to section 69 (registers of applications etc.) and “appropriate register" means the register on which particulars of an application for planning permission for the relevant development have been placed or would fall to be placed if such an application were made;
“relevant planning authority" means the body to whom it falls, fell, or would, but for a direction under section 77 M11 (reference of applications to Secretary of State), fall to determine an application for planning permission for the development in question;
“Schedule 1 application" and “Schedule 2 application" mean an application for planning permission for Schedule 1 development and Schedule 2 development respectively;
“Schedule 1 development" means development, other than exempt development, of a description mentioned in Schedule 1;
“Schedule 2 development" means development, other than exempt development, of a description mentioned in Column 1 of the table in Schedule 2 where—
any part of that development is to be carried out in a sensitive area; or
any applicable threshold or criterion in the corresponding part of Column 2 of that table is respectively exceeded or met in relation to that development;
“scoping direction" and “scoping opinion" have the meanings given in regulation 10;
“screening direction" means a direction made by the Secretary of State as to whether development is EIA development;
“screening opinion" means a written statement of the opinion of the relevant planning authority as to whether development is EIA development;
“sensitive area" means any of the following—
land notified under sub-section (1) of section 28 (areas of special scientific interest) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 M12;
land to which sub-section (3) of section 29 (nature conservation orders) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 applies;
an area to which paragraph (u)(ii) in the table in article 10 of the Order applies;
a National Park within the meaning of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 M13;
the Broads M14;
a property appearing on the World Heritage List kept under article 11(2) of the 1972 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage M15;
a scheduled monument within the meaning of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 M16;
an area of outstanding natural beauty designated as such by an order made by the Countryside Commission, as respects England, or the Countryside Council for Wales, as respects Wales, under section 87 (designation of areas of outstanding natural beauty) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 M17 as confirmed by the Secretary of State;
a European site within the meaning of regulation 10 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats etc.) Regulations 1994 M18.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), expressions used both in these Regulations and in the Act have the same meaning for the purposes of these Regulations as they have for the purposes of the Act.
(3) Expressions used both in these Regulations and in the Directive (whether or not also used in the Act) have the same meaning for the purposes of these Regulations as they have for the purposes of the Directive.
(4) In these Regulations any reference to a Council Directive is a reference to that Directive as amended at the date these Regulations were made.
(5) In these Regulations references to the Secretary of State shall not be construed as references to an inspector.
Marginal Citations
M2 See section 1(1) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (c. 97), as substituted by the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43), section 130 and Schedule 8, paragraph 1.
M3 See section 128 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
M4 See section 130 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
M5 See section 1(1) of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25).
M6O.J. No. L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40. Council Directive 85/337/EEC was amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC, O.J. No. L 73, 14.3.1997, p. 5.
M7S.I. 1992/1492. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/1982 and S.I. 1997/3006.
M8Schedule 6 was amended by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), Schedule 22, paragraph 44.
M9S.I. 1995/419. Relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1996/1817.See also paragraph 233(1) of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995.
M11Section 77 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991, Schedule 7, paragraph 18.
M121981 c. 69, amended by the Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Act 1985 (c. 31), the Wildlife and Countryside (Service of Notices) Act 1985 (c. 59), the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c. 4) and the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11).
M131949 c. 97. Relevant amendments were made by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), Schedule 10, paragraph 2.
M15 See Command Paper 9424.
M161979 c. 46.See the definition in section 1(11).
M171949 c. 97. Section 87 was amended by paragraph 1(12) of Schedule 8 to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43).
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