The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2016

9.  Regulation 22 is to be read as if—

(a) paragraph (1) read—

“(1) Where an environmental statement has been prepared and the local planning authority is of the opinion that the statement should contain additional information in order to be an environmental statement, the local planning authority must ensure that additional information is provided and such information provided is referred to in these Regulations as “further information” (“gwybodaeth bellach”)”;

(b) paragraph (3) read—

“(3) The local planning authority must publish in a local newspaper circulating in the locality in which the land is situated a notice stating—

(a) the name and address of the local planning authority;

(b) the address or location and the nature of the development referred to in the proposed local development order;

(c) that further information is available in relation to an environmental statement which has already been provided;

(d) that a copy of the further information may be inspected by members of the public at all reasonable hours;

(e) an address in the locality in which the land is situated at which the further information may be inspected, and the latest date on which it will be available for inspection (being a date not less than 21 days later than the date on which the notice is published);

(f) an address (whether or not the same as that given under sub-paragraph (e)) in the locality in which the land is situated at which copies of the further information may be obtained;

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

(h) if a charge is to be made for a copy, the amount of the charge;

(i) that any person wishing to make representations about the further information should make them before the date specified in accordance with sub-paragraph (e), to the local planning authority;

(j) the address to which representations should be sent.”;

(c) paragraph (4) read—

“(4) The local planning authority must send a copy of the further information and any other information to each person to whom, in accordance with the Regulations, the statement to which it relates was sent and to the Welsh Ministers.”;

(d) paragraphs (5) and (6) were omitted;

(e) paragraph (7) read—

“(7) Where information is provided under paragraph (1) the local planning authority must not make the local development order before the expiry of 21 days after the date on which the further information was sent to all persons to whom the statement to which it relates was sent or the expiry of 21 days after the date that notice of it was published in a local newspaper, whichever is the later.”;

(f) in paragraph (8)—

(i) instead of “The applicant or appellant” it read “The local planning authority”; and

(ii) after “number of copies of the” it read “further information or other”.