The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2008

PART 6 Marine fish farming

Application to marine fish farming

35.—(1) These Regulations apply to an application for planning permission relating to marine fish farm development subject to the following modifications.

(2) In regulation 7(2)(b) for “in the locality in which the proposed development is situated” substitute, “in the district of the planning authority for the marine planning zone in which the marine fish farm development is proposed”;

(3) In regulation 9–

(a) for paragraph 2(b) substitute–

“(b) a description of the location of the development;”;

(b) for paragraph (3)(a) substitute–

“(a) a plan sufficient to identify the location of the development;”; and

(c) for paragraph (3)(e) substitute–

“(e) where the development belongs to the category of–

(i) major developments; or

(ii) local developments and the land to which the development relates is situated within a World Heritage Site, a National Scenic Area or the site of a scheduled monument,

a design statement;”.

(4) Omit regulations 10, 18 and 38.

(5) In regulation 20–

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute–

“(1) The planning authority must publish a notice in the form set out in Schedule 4 in a newspaper circulating in the district of that planning authority.”; and

(b) omit paragraphs (2) and (3).

(6) In Schedule 5, in paragraph 6 for “within whose area the development is to take place” substitute, “whose area is adjacent to the marine planning zone in which the marine fish farm development is proposed”.

(7) Where an application for planning permission relates in part to marine fish farm development and in part to other development, the modifications specified in this regulation apply only for the purposes of that application to the extent that it relates to marine fish farm development.