The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (England) Regulations 2006

The consent application

13.—(1) An application for consent must include an environmental statement and must be made to Natural England.

(2) The applicant for consent must provide Natural England with as many copies of the application as it reasonably requires.

(3) After receiving the application for consent, Natural England must comply with paragraphs (4) and (5).

(4) Natural England must—

(a) send a copy of the application to any of the consultation bodies it considers appropriate; and

(b) inform them that they may make representations within 6 weeks of the date they received the copy of the application.

(5) In order to ensure that members of the public concerned are given an opportunity to make representations before the application is determined, Natural England must publish on its website and in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the relevant land a notice—

(a) stating that the application has been made;

(b) specifying an address—

(i) at which copies of the application can be inspected free of charge, and

(ii) where copies of the application may be taken

at all reasonable hours within 6 weeks of the date the notice is published;

(c) stating that representations on the likely environmental effects of the project may be made in writing to Natural England at the address specified under sub-paragraph (b) within 6 weeks of the date the notice is published;

(d) stating that, if consent is granted, it will be subject to—

(i) the conditions in regulation 19(2), and

(ii) any other conditions that Natural England thinks fit; and

(e) stating, if relevant, which of the other EEA States, the authorities referred to in Article 6(1) of the EIA Directive, and the public concerned in such EEA States will be consulted on the application.

(6) Natural England may make a reasonable charge for copies referred to in paragraph (5)(b)(ii).