The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Undetermined Reviews of Old Mineral Permissions) (Wales) Regulations 2009

Procedure following notice given under regulation 28(8) E+W

32.—(1) An applicant, appellant or operator notified under regulation 28(8) must, within seven days of the date of that notification, provide to the relevant mineral planning authority or the Welsh Ministers (as the case may be), such number of copies of the further information or evidence as are specified in the notice given under that regulation.

(2) A relevant mineral planning authority must, within 14 days of the date of a notice given by it under regulation 28(8)—

(a) send to the Welsh Ministers, two copies of the further information or evidence to which the notice relates;

(b) send to each of the consultation bodies a copy of the further information or evidence to which the notice relates; and

(c) give written notification to each consultation body stating that any representation it wishes to make in response to the consultation should be made in writing to the relevant mineral planning authority within 28 days of the date of the notice (or such longer period as may be agreed between the relevant mineral planning authority and the consultation body);

(3) The Welsh Ministers must, as soon as reasonably practicable following the date of a notice given by them under regulation 28(8)—

(a) send to each of the consultation bodies a copy of the further information or evidence to which the notice relates;

(b) give written notification to each consultation body stating that any representation it wishes to make in response to the consultation should be made in writing to the Welsh Ministers within 28 days of the date of the notice (or such longer period as may be agreed between the Welsh Ministers and the consultation body); and

(c) send to the relevant mineral planning authority a copy of the further information or evidence to which the notice relates.

(4) Where a relevant mineral planning authority or the Welsh Ministers give written notification under regulation 28(8), the authority or, as the case may be, the Welsh Ministers, must suspend consideration of the application or appeal in question until the expiry of the relevant period applicable in accordance with regulation 29(1); and must not determine the application or appeal until the expiry of 21 days following the date on which that relevant period ends .