The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Made: 21st February 2011

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 23rd February 2011

Coming into force: 1st June 2011

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PART 1 — INTRODUCTORY

Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Prohibition on granting planning permission without an environmental impact assessment

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Consideration of environmental information when determining an application for multi stage consent

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PART 2 — SCREENING

General provisions relating to screening

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Requests for screening opinions of the planning authority

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Requests for screening directions of the Scottish Ministers

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PART 3 — PROCEDURES CONCERNING APPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING PERMISSION

Application or request to review made to a planning authority without an environmental statement

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EIA application made to a planning authority without an environmental statement

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Application or Appeal to the Scottish Ministers without an environmental statement

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EIA application referred to the Scottish Ministers without an environmental statement

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Appeal to the Scottish Ministers without an environmental statement

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Review by the planning authority of an application without an environmental statement

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PART 4 — PREPARATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENTS

Scoping opinions of the planning authority

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Scoping directions of the Scottish Ministers

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Procedure to facilitate preparation of environmental statements

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PART 5 — PUBLICITY AND PROCEDURES ON SUBMISSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENTS

Notification of environmental statement

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Publication of environmental statement

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Consultation where environmental statement received by planning authority

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Copies of environmental statement for the Scottish Ministers

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Consultation where environmental statement received by the Scottish Ministers

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Copies of environmental statement for the public

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PART 6 — ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional information and evidence relating to environmental statements

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Publication of additional information

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PART 7 — AVAILABILITY OF DIRECTIONS ETC. AND NOTIFICATION OF DECISIONS

Availability of opinions, directions etc. for inspection

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Duties to inform the public and the Scottish Ministers of final decisions

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PART 8 — APPLICATIONS FOR MULTI-STAGE CONSENT

Requests for screening opinions and screening directions

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Application for multi-stage consent without environmental statement

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Application for multi-stage consent referred or appealed to the Scottish Ministers without an environmental statement

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Modification of regulations relating to application for multi-stage consent

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Application for multi-stage consent – simplified planning scheme, enterprise zone scheme and ROMP condition

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PART 9 — SPECIAL CASES

Simplified planning zone schemes or enterprise zone orders

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ROMP applications

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Applications for permission under section 242A

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Marine fish farming

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PART 10 — DEVELOPMENT WITH SIGNIFICANT TRANSBOUNDARY EFFECTS

Development in Scotland likely to have significant effects in an EEA State other than the United Kingdom

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Projects in another EEA State likely to have significant transboundary effects

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PART 11 — MISCELLANEOUS

Electronic communications – general

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Electronic communications – deemed agreement

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Withdrawal of consent to use of electronic communications

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Service of notices etc.

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Application to the Court of Session

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Hazardous waste and material change of use

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Extension of the period for an authority's decision on a planning application

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Directions as to whether development is EIA development

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Access to review procedure before a court

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Amendment of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992

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Amendment of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure (Scotland) Regulations 2008

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Revocation and savings

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SCHEDULE 1 — DESCRIPTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE DEFINITION OF “SCHEDULE 1 DEVELOPMENT”

Interpretation

In this Schedule—

• “airport” means an airport which complies with the definition in the 1944Chicago Convention setting up the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Annex14)[^f00027];

• “express road” means a road which complies with the definition in the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries of 15thNovember 1975[^f00028]; and

• “nuclear power station” and “other nuclear reactor” do not include an installation from the site of which all nuclear fuel and other radioactive contaminated materials have been permanently removed; and development for the purpose of dismantling or decommissioning a nuclear power station or other nuclear reactor is to be treated as development of the description mentioned in paragraph2(2) of this Schedule.

Descriptions of development

The carrying out of development to provide any of the following:—

1 Crude‑oil refineries (excluding undertakings manufacturing only lubricants from crude‑oil) and installations for the gasification and liquefaction of 500tonnes or more of coal or bituminous shale per day.

2 1 Thermal power stations and other combustion installations with a heat output of 300megawatts or more. 2 Nuclear power stations and other nuclear reactors (except research installations for the production and conversion of fissionable and fertile material, whose maximum power does not exceed 1kilowatt continuous thermal load).

3 1 Installations for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel. 2 Installations designed— a for the production or enrichment of nuclear fuel; b for the processing of irradiated nuclear fuel or high‑level radioactive waste; c for the final disposal of irradiated nuclear fuel; d solely for the final disposal of radioactive waste; e solely for the storage (planned for more than tenyears) of irradiated nuclear fuels or radioactive waste in a different site than the production site.

4 1 Integrated works for the initial smelting of cast‑iron and steel. 2 Installations for the production of non‑ferrous crude metals from ore, concentrates or secondary raw materials by metallurgical, chemical or electrolytic processes.

5 Installations for the extraction of asbestos and for the processing and transformation of asbestos and products containing asbestos— a for asbestos‑cement products, with an annual production of more than 20,000tonnes of finished products; b for friction material, with an annual production of more than 50tonnes of finished products; and c for other uses of asbestos, utilisation of more than 200tonnes per year.

6 Integrated chemical installations, that is to say, installations for the manufacture on an industrial scale of substances using chemical conversion processes, in which several units are juxtaposed and are functionally linked to one another and which are— a for the production of basic organic chemicals; b for the production of basic inorganic chemicals; c for the production of phosphorous–, nitrogen– or potassium‑based fertilisers (simple or compound fertilisers); d for the production of basic plant health products and of biocides; e for the production of basic pharmaceutical products using a chemical or biological process; f for the production of explosives.

7 1 Construction of lines for long‑distance railway traffic and of airports with a basic runway length of 2,100metres or more. 2 Construction of motorways and express roads. 3 Construction of a new road of four or more lanes, or realignment and/or widening of an existing road of twolanes or less so as to provide four or more lanes, where such new road, or realigned and/or widened section of road, would be 10kilometres or more in a continuous length.

8 1 Inland waterways and ports for inland‑waterway traffic which permit the passage of vessels of over 1,350tonnes. 2 Trading ports, piers for loading and unloading connected to land and outside ports (excluding ferry piers) which can take vessels of over 1,350tonnes.

9 Waste disposal installations for the incineration, chemical treatment (as defined in AnnexI to Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste and repealing certain Directives[^f00029] under headingD9), or landfill of hazardous waste (that is to say, waste which is considered to be hazardous in accordance with Articles3(2) and 7 of that Directive).

10 Waste disposal installations for the incineration or chemical treatment (as defined in AnnexI to Directive 2008/98/EC under headingD9) of non‑hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 100tonnes per day.

11 Groundwater abstraction or artificial groundwater recharge schemes where the annual volume of water abstracted or recharged is equivalent to or exceeds 10million cubic metres.

12 1 Works for the transfer of water resources, other than piped drinking water, between river basins where the transfer aims at preventing possible shortages of water and where the amount of water transferred exceeds 100million cubic metres per year. 2 In all other cases, works for the transfer of water resources, other than piped drinking water, between river basins where the multi‑annual average flow of the basin of abstraction exceeds 2,000million cubic metres per year and where the amount of water transferred exceeds 5% of this flow.

13 Waste water treatment plants with a capacity exceeding 150,000 population equivalent as defined in Article2(6) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC concerning urban waste-water treatment[^f00030].

14 Extraction of petroleum and natural gas for commercial purposes where the amount extracted exceeds 500tonnes perday in the case of petroleum and 500,000cubic metres per day in the case of gas.

15 Dams and other installations designed for the holding back or permanent storage of water, where a new or additional amount of water held back or stored exceeds 10million cubic metres.

16 Pipelines with a diameter of more than 800millimetres and a length of more than 40kilometres for the transport of— a gas, oil or chemicals; b carbon dioxide streams for the purposes of geological storage, including associated booster stations.

17 Installations for the intensive rearing of poultry or pigs with more than— a 85,000places for broilers or 60,000places for hens; b 3,000places for production pigs (over 30kg); or c 900places for sows.

18 Industrial plants for— a the production of pulp from timber or similar fibrous materials; b the production of paper and board with a production capacity exceeding 200tonnes per day.

19 Quarries and open‑cast mining where the surface of the site exceeds 25hectares, or peat extraction where the surface of the site exceeds 150hectares.

20 Installations for storage of petroleum, petrochemical or chemical products with a capacity of 200,000tonnes or more.

21 Storage sites pursuant to the CCS Directive.