The Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988

Publicity where a planning application is accompanied by an environmental statement

12.—(1) Section 26 (publication of notices of an application)(1) shall apply to development which is the subject of a Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 application accompanied by an environmental statement as it applies to a class of development prescribed for the purposes of that section, but subject to the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) The notice mentioned in section 26(2)(a) or required by section 26(3) shall, in addition to complying with the requirements set out in section 26(6) and the General Development Order, state—

(a) that a copy of the environmental statement is included in documents which will be open to inspection by the public;

(b) an address in the locality in which the land is situated at which copies of the environmental statement may be obtained;

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

(d) if a charge is to be made for a copy, the amount of the charge.

(3) For the purposes of section 26, the requirements of paragraph (2) shall be regarded as requirements of section 26(6); and references to the relevant form of notice prescribed by a development order shall be read as references to a form which also provides the information mentioned in paragraph (2).

(4) Where section 26 applies by virtue of this regulation, that section shall not otherwise apply.

(1)

Section 26 was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), sections 38 and 46.