The Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Further information relating to environmental statement

15.—(1) Where the Department or the Commission is of the opinion that—

(a) the applicant could have provided further information about any of the matters mentioned in Schedule 4; and

(b) that further information is reasonably required to give proper consideration to the likely environmental effects of the proposed development,

it may request the applicant, by notice in writing, to submit such further information.

(2) The Department or the Commission may, by notice in writing, require an applicant to produce such evidence as it may reasonably call for to verify any information in his environmental statement.

(3) Regulations 12 to 14 shall apply where such further information is received by the Department in relation to an environmental statement, as if references to “environmental statement” were references to “further information”.