The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2017

12.  Regulation 24 is to be read as if— E+W

(a) paragraph (1) read—

“(1) Where an environmental statement has been prepared and the local planning authority are of the opinion that, in order to satisfy the requirements of regulation 17(3) it is necessary for the statement to be supplemented with additional information which is directly relevant to reaching a reasoned conclusion on the likely significant effects of the proposed development in order to be an environmental statement, the authority must ensure that additional information is provided, and such information is referred to in these Regulations as “further information” (“gwybodaeth bellach”).”;

(b) paragraph (3) read—

“(3) The local planning authority must publish by local advertisement a notice stating—

(a) the name and address of the authority;

(b) the address or location and the nature of the development referred to in the proposed local development order;

(c) that further information is available in relation to an environmental statement which has already been provided;

(d) that a copy of the further information may be inspected by members of the public at all reasonable hours;

(e) an address in the locality in which the land is situated at which the further information may be inspected, and the latest date on which it is available for inspection (being a date not less than 30 days from the date on which the notice is published);

(f) details of a website maintained by or on behalf of the authority on which the environmental statement and other documents may be inspected, and the latest date on which they are available for access (being a date not less than 30 days from the date on which the notice is published);

(g) an address (whether or not the same as that given under sub-paragraph (e)) in the locality in which the land is situated at which copies of the further information may be obtained;

(h) that copies may be obtained there so long as stocks last;

(i) if a charge is to be made for a copy, the amount of the charge;

(j) that any person wishing to make representations about the further information should make them before the latest date specified in accordance with sub-paragraphs (e) and (f), to the authority; and

(k) the address to which representations should be sent.”;

(c) paragraph (4) read—

“(4) The local planning authority must send a copy of the further information and any other information to each person to whom, in accordance with these Regulations, the statement to which it relates was sent and to the Welsh Ministers.”;

(d) paragraphs (5) and (6) were omitted;

(e) paragraph (7) read—

“(7) Where information is provided under paragraph (1) the local planning authority must not make the local development order before the expiry of 30 days after the latest of—

(a) the date on which the further information was sent to all persons to whom the statement to which it relates was sent;

(b) the date that notice of it was published in a local newspaper; or

(c) the date that notice of it was published on a website.”;

(f) in paragraph (8)—

(i) instead of “The applicant or appellant who provides” it read “The local planning authority providing”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), after “number of copies of the” it read “further information or other”.