The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Undetermined Reviews of Old Mineral Permissions) (Wales) Regulations 2009

Further information

26.—(1) Where a relevant mineral planning authority or the Welsh Ministers reasonably consider that further information is required to properly consider an EIA application or, in the case of the Welsh Ministers, to properly consider an appeal in relation to an EIA application, and either—

(a) the applicant or appellant is (or should be) able to provide such information, or

(b) an operator is (or should be) able to provide such information,

the relevant mineral planning authority or the Welsh Ministers must notify the applicant, the appellant or, as the case may be, the operator, in writing of the further information required.

(2) A written notification given under paragraph (1) must state clearly and precisely the information required.

(3) Written notification given under paragraph (1) must be accompanied by written notification of the matters set out in paragraph 15 of Schedule 3.

(4) Further information required pursuant to a notification under paragraph (1) must be provided within 6 weeks of the date of the notice, or such longer period as may be agreed in writing with the relevant mineral planning authority or the Welsh Ministers (as the case may be) (“the relevant period”).

(5) If further information is not provided within the relevant period the planning permission to which the EIA application or appeal relates ceases to authorise any minerals development from the end of the relevant period.

(6) A written notification given under paragraph (1) does not preclude a relevant mineral planning authority or the Welsh Ministers from giving a further written notification under that paragraph or under regulation 27 (evidence).

(7) A relevant mineral planning authority or the Welsh Ministers may withdraw a written notification given under paragraph (1) at any time before the expiration of the relevant period.