The Environmental Impact Assessment (Uncultivated Land and Semi-Natural Areas) (Wales) Regulations 2002

The consent application

9.—(1) An application for consent (which shall include the environmental statement) must be made to the National Assembly.

(2) The applicant for consent must provide to the National Assembly the number of copies of the application it may reasonably require.

(3) After the National Assembly has received an application for consent in accordance with regulation 9(1) and (2) it must

(a) send a copy of the application to such of the consultation bodies as it thinks fit and inform them that they may make representations within 42 days from the date the application was served on them; and

(b) for the purpose of ensuring that members of the public are given an opportunity to make representations before the application is determined, publish in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the relevant land a notice:—

(i) announcing that the application has been made;

(ii) specifying an address at which copies of the application may be inspected free of charge and where anyone who wishes to obtain copies of the application may do so (for which a reasonable charge may be made) at all reasonable hours within 42 days from the date of publication of the notice; and

(iii) stating that any person wishing to make any representations in relation to the likely environmental effects of the project for which consent is sought shall make them in writing to the National Assembly at the address specified at sub-paragraph (ii) above within 42 days from the date of publication of the notice.