Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Notification of decisions

16.  Where an application for consent has been determined by the Department it shall—

(a) give notice in writing of its decision to the applicant and any person from whom it received representations in relation to the application, stating that it has taken into consideration the environmental information relating to the application and giving the reasons and considerations on which the decision was based; and

(b) publish a notice of its decision in the newspapers in which notice of the application was published in accordance with regulation 13(1) which gives details of the place and times at which the public may inspect a statement of—

(i) the content of the Department’s decision and any conditions attached thereto;

(ii) the main reasons and considerations on which the decision is based; and

(iii) a description, where necessary, of the main measures to avoid, reduce and if possible offset, the major adverse effects of the project.