The Electricity (Offshore Generating Stations) (Applications for Consent) Regulations 2006

Publication of notice of a public inquiry

8.  Where a public inquiry is to be held in respect of the construction, extension or operation of a generating station, the whole or part of which is to be or is at a place that is not within the area of a relevant planning authority, and the applicant serves notice of the same pursuant to paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 8—

(a) the notice shall state that a copy of the application, and of the map referred to in it, can be inspected at the same location or locations used to display the map pursuant to regulation 4(2) or, if in relation to any such location that is not possible, at a suitable alternative location as near as possible to it ; and

(b) the area for the purposes of paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 8 (as modified by paragraph 7A(1) of that Schedule) shall be the same area within which the local newspapers referred to in regulation 4(1)(a) circulate.

(1)

Paragraph 7A of Schedule 8 was inserted by section 93(2) of the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20).