The Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Publicity where an environmental statement is submitted

20.  Where an environmental statement is submitted, the developer shall make it available to the public, and the council or, as the case may be, the Department shall, when it receives the environmental statement—

(a) publish notice of the application for planning permission or subsequent application by local advertisement, allowing the public a period of 4 weeks from the date on which the notice is first published, in which to make representations;

(b) state in the notice that—

(i) the application for planning permission or subsequent application is accompanied by an environmental statement; and,

(ii) in the case of a subsequent application, that a copy of the planning permission and supporting documents for the development in respect of which the application has been made may be inspected by members of the public at all reasonable hours at the relevant office of the council or, as the case may be, the Department;

(c) give in the notice, a postal address (within the locality in which the land proposed to be developed is situated) at which copies of the environmental statement may be obtained from the developer, so long as stocks last, and if a charge is to be made for a copy, state the amount of the charge; and

(d) where it is aware of any particular person who is or is likely to be affected by, or has an interest in, the application for planning permission or subsequent application, and who is unlikely to become aware of it by means of a local advertisement, send a notice to such person containing the details set out in paragraphs (a) – (c) and the address of the relevant office of the council or, as the case may be, the Department.