The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Assessment and Unauthorised Development) Regulations 1995

Publicity for environmental statements

10.—(1) Where an authority receive a copy of an environmental statement by virtue of regulation 8(1)(a) they shall publish in a local newspaper circulating in the locality in which the land to which the enforcement notice relates is situated (“the locality”) a notice stating—

(a) the name of the appellant and that he has appealed to the Secretary of State against the enforcement notice;

(b) the address or location of the land to which the notice relates and the nature of the development;

(c) that a copy of the environmental statement may be inspected by members of the public at all reasonable hours;

(d) an address in the locality at which the statement may be inspected, and the latest date on which it will be available for inspection (being a date not less than 20 days later than the date on which the notice is published);

(e) that any person wishing to make representations about any matter dealt with in the statement should make them in writing, no later than 14 days after the date named in accordance with sub-paragraph (d), to the Secretary of State; and

(f) the address to which any such representations should be sent.

(2) The authority shall as soon as practicable after publication of a notice in accordance with paragraph (1) send to the Secretary of State a copy of the notice certified by or on behalf of the authority as having been published in a named newspaper on a date specified in the certificate.

(3) Where the Secretary of State receives a certificate under paragraph (2) he shall not determine the deemed application or the ground (a) appeal in respect of the development to which the certificate relates before the expiry of 14 days from the date stated in the published notice as the last date on which the environmental statement was available for inspection.