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

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Prohibition on the grant of planning permission or subsequent consent without consideration of environmental information

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4.—(1) This regulation applies—

(a)to every application for planning permission for EIA development received by a council or the Department on or after the commencement of these Regulations;

(b)to every application for planning permission for EIA development made by a council pursuant to regulation 3 or 4 (applications for planning permission) of the General Regulations on or after that date;

(c)to every subsequent application in respect of EIA development received by a council or the Department on or after the commencement of these Regulations; and

(d)to every subsequent application in respect of EIA development made by a council pursuant to regulation 10 (other consents) of the General Regulations on or after that date,

and for the purposes of this paragraph, the date of receipt of an application by a council or the Department shall be determined in accordance with article 20 (time periods for decisions) of the General Development Procedure Order as applied by regulation 19.

(2) A council, the Department or the Commission, as the case may require, shall not grant planning permission or subsequent consent pursuant to an application to which this regulation applies unless they have first taken the environmental information into consideration, and they shall state in their decision that they have done so.

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