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

Made: 19th July 2011

Laid before Parliament: 26th July 2011

Coming into force: 24 August 2011

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PART 1 — General

Citation, commencement and application

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Interpretation

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Prohibition on granting planning permission or subsequent consent without consideration of environmental information

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PART 2 — Screening

General provisions relating to screening

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Requests for screening opinions of the local planning authority

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Requests for screening directions of the Secretary of State

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PART 3 — Procedures Concerning Applications for Planning Permission

Applications which appear to require screening opinion

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Subsequent applications where environmental information previously provided

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Subsequent applications where environmental information not previously provided

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Application made to a local planning authority without an environmental statement

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Application referred to the Secretary of State without an environmental statement

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Appeal to the Secretary of State without an environmental statement

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PART 4 — Preparation of Environmental Statements

Scoping opinions of the local planning authority

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Scoping directions of the Secretary of State

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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

Procedure where an environmental statement is submitted to a local planning authority

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Publicity where an environmental statement is submitted after the planning application

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Provision of copies of environmental statements and further information for the Secretary of State on referral or appeal

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Procedure where an environmental statement is submitted to the Secretary of State

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Availability of copies of environmental statements

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Charges for copies of environmental statements

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Further information and evidence respecting environmental statements

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PART 6 — 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 Secretary of State of final decisions

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PART 7 — Development By a Local Planning Authority

Modifications where application by a local planning authority

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Screening opinions and directions

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PART 8 — Restrictions of Grants of Permission

Old simplified planning zone schemes or enterprise orders

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New simplified planning zone schemes or enterprise zone orders

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Local development orders

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PART 9 — Unauthorised Development

Interpretation

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Prohibition on the grant of planning permission for unauthorised EIA development

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Screening opinions of the local planning authority

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Screening directions of the Secretary of State

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Provision of information

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Appeal to the Secretary of State without a screening opinion or screening direction

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Appeal to the Secretary of State without an environmental statement

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Procedure where an environmental statement is submitted to the Secretary of State

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Further information and evidence respecting environmental statements

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Publicity for environmental statements or further information

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Public inspection of documents

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Significant transboundary effects

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PART 10 — ROMP Applications

General application of the Regulations to ROMP applications

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Modification of provisions on prohibition of granting planning permission or subsequent consent

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Modification of provisions on application to local planning authority without an environmental statement

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Disapplication of Regulations and modifications of provisions on application referred to or appealed to the Secretary of State without an environmental statement

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Substitution of references to section 78 right of appeal and modification of provisions on appeal to the Secretary of State without an environmental statement

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Modification of provisions on preparation, publicity and procedures on submission of environmental statements

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Modification of provisions on application to the High Court and giving of directions

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Suspension of minerals development

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Determination of conditions and right of appeal on non-determination

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ROMP application by a mineral planning authority

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ROMP applications: duty to make a prohibition order after two years suspension of permission

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PART 11 — Development with Significant Transboundary Effects

Development in England likely to have significant effects in another EEA State

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Projects in another EEA State likely to have significant transboundary effects

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PART 12 — Projects serving national defence purposes

Projects serving national defence purposes in Scotland

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Projects serving national defence purposes in Wales

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Projects serving national defence purposes in Northern Ireland

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PART 13 — Miscellaneous

Service of notices etc

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Application to the High Court

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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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Extension of the power to provide in a development order for the giving of directions as respects the manner in which planning applications are dealt with

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Application to the Crown

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Review

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Revocation of statutory instruments and transitional provisions

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Consequential amendments

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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 1944 Chicago Convention setting up the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Annex 14)[^f00045];

• “express road” means a road which complies with the definition in the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries of 15 November 1975[^f00046];

• “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 shall not be treated as development of the description mentioned in paragraph 2(b) 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 500 tonnes or more of coal or bituminous shale per day.

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

3 a Installations for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel; b Installations designed— i for the production or enrichment of nuclear fuel, ii for the processing of irradiated nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste, iii for the final disposal of irradiated nuclear fuel, iv solely for the final disposal of radioactive waste, v solely for the storage (planned for more than 10 years) of irradiated nuclear fuels or radioactive waste in a different site than the production site.

4 a Integrated works for the initial smelting of cast-iron and steel; b 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 20,000 tonnes of finished products; b for friction material, with an annual production of more than 50 tonnes of finished products; and c for other uses of asbestos, utilisation of more than 200 tonnes 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 a Construction of lines for long-distance railway traffic and of airports with a basic runway length of 2,100 metres or more; b Construction of motorways and express roads; c Construction of a new road of four or more lanes, or realignment and/or widening of an existing road of two lanes or less so as to provide four or more lanes, where such new road, or realigned and/or widened section of road would be 10 kilometres or more in a continuous length.

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

9 Waste disposal installations for the incineration, chemical treatment (as defined in Annex IIA to Council Directive 75/442/EEC[^f00047] under heading D9), or landfill of hazardous waste as defined in regulation 6 of the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005[^f00048].

10 Waste disposal installations for the incineration or chemical treatment (as defined in Annex IIA to Council Directive 75/442/EEC under heading D9) of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 100 tonnes per day.

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

12 a 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 100 million cubic metres per year; b 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 2,000 million 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 Article 2 point (6) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC[^f00049].

14 Extraction of petroleum and natural gas for commercial purposes where the amount extracted exceeds 500 tonnes per day in the case of petroleum and 500,000 cubic 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 10 million cubic metres.

16 Pipelines with a diameter of more than 800 millimetres and a length of more than 40 kilometres: for the transport of gas, oil, chemicals, or for the transport of 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 85,000 places for broilers or 60,000 places for hens; b 3,000 places for production pigs (over 30 kg); or c 900 places 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 200 tonnes per day.

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

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

21 Any change to or extension of development listed in this Schedule where such a change or extension in itself meets the thresholds, if any, or description of development set out in this Schedule.

22 Storage sites pursuant to Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide.[^f00050]

23 Installations for the capture of carbon dioxide streams for the purposes of geological storage pursuant to Directive 2009/31/EC from installations covered by this Schedule, or where the total yearly capture of carbon dioxide is 1.5 megatonnes or more.

SCHEDULE 2 — Descriptions of development and applicable thresholds and criteria for the purposes of the definition of “Schedule 2 development”

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SCHEDULE 3 — Selection criteria for screening Schedule 2 development

Characteristics of development

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Location of development

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Characteristics of the potential impact

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SCHEDULE 4 — Information for inclusion in environmental statements

PART 1

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PART 2

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SCHEDULE 5 — Statutory instruments revoked

Title of instrument	Reference	Extent of revocation
The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999	S.I. 1999/293	The whole of the Regulations in so far as they apply to England.
The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2000	S.I 2000/2867	The whole of the Regulations in so far as they apply to England.
The Town and Country Planning (Application of Subordinate Legislation to the Crown) Order 2006	S.I. 2006/1282	Article 22 so far as it applies to England.
The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2006	S.I. 2006/3295	Regulations 1-21, 23 and 24 so far as they apply to England, and regulation 22.
The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Mineral Permissions and Amendment) (England) Regulations 2008	S.I. 2008/1556	Regulations 3 and 4.
The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2008	S.I.2008/2093	The whole of the Regulations.

SCHEDULE 6 — Consequential amendments

The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995

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The Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1999

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The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

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The Town and Country Planning (Major Infrastructure Project Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2005

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The Planning (National Security Directions and Appointed Representatives) (England) Rules 2006

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Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (England) (No 2) Regulations 2006

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The Environmental Impact Assessment and Natural Habitats (Extraction of Minerals by Marine Dredging) (England and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2007

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The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2010

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Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Bob Neill — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — 2011-07-19

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2008/301.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: 1990 c. 8. Section 71A was inserted by section 15 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34).

[^f00004]: O.J. No. L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40. Council Directive 85/337/EEC was amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC, O.J. No. L 73, 14.3.1997, p. 5; Directive 2003/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, O.J. No. L 156, 25.6.2003, p. 17; and Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, O.J. No. L. 140, 5.6.2009, p. 114.

[^f00005]: O.J. No. L 73, 14.3.1997, p. 5.

[^f00006]: Regulations 55 to 57 relate to the Secretary of State’s power to direct that the Regulations shall not apply to development that constitutes or forms part of a project serving national defence purposes. The decision as to whether a direction should be made in respect of projects situated in the devolved administrations will be taken by the Secretary of State. National defence is a reserved matter for Scotland (see paragraph 9 of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)), an excepted matter for Northern Ireland (see paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c.47)), and a matter not devolved to Wales.

[^f00007]: 1991 c. 34.

[^f00008]: 1995 c. 25.

[^f00009]: See section 1 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23).

[^f00010]: See section 41 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009.

[^f00011]: See section 84(4) of the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), substituted by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009.

[^f00012]: 1964 c. 29.

[^f00013]: See section 1(1) and 1(2) of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c.16).

[^f00014]: See section 1(1) of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25).

[^f00015]: S.I. 1992/1492. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/1982 and S.I. 1997/3006.

[^f00016]: Schedule 6 was amended by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), Schedule 22, paragraph 44.

[^f00017]: Section 61A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 was inserted by section 40 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c.5).

[^f00018]: S.I. 2010/2184.

[^f00019]: 1972 c. 70.

[^f00020]: Section 77 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991, Schedule 7, paragraph 18.

[^f00021]: 1981 c. 69, substituted by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2001 (c. 37) section 75(1) and Schedule 9, paragraph 1, and amended by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16) section 105(1), Schedule 11, Part 1, paragraph 79, and by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23) section 148, schedule 13, Part 2, paragraph 2(1).

[^f00022]: 1949 (c. 97), s section 5(3).

[^f00023]: See the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c. 4).

[^f00024]: See Command Paper 9424.

[^f00025]: 1979 c. 46. See the definition in section 1(11).

[^f00026]: 2000 c. 37.

[^f00027]: S.I. 2010/490.

[^f00028]: 2008 c. 18.

[^f00029]: S.I. 2004/3391.

[^f00030]: S.I. 1995/418, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00031]: See section 83 and Schedule 7 to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8).

[^f00032]: See sections 88 and 89 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8) and Schedule 32 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65).

[^f00033]: Section 172 was substituted by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), section 5.

[^f00034]: Section 177 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), sections 6(3) and 32, and Schedule 7 paragraph 24.

[^f00035]: Section 174 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), section 6(1) and Schedule 7, paragraph 22, and by S.I 2003/956. See also section 177(5) which was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991, Schedule 7, paragraph 24.

[^f00036]: See section 177(8) Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

[^f00037]: The provisions of the Order are not applied to applications under paragraph 9(1) of Schedule 13 to the 1995 Act as they are applied by paragraph 9(5) of Schedule 13 to the 1995 Act.

[^f00038]: These provisions are not applied to applications under paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1991 Act as they are applied by paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 to the 1991 Act.

[^f00039]: Paragraph 3 was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), Schedule 1, paragraph 15(6).

[^f00040]: S.S.I. 2011/139.

[^f00041]: S.I. 1999/293, which were amended for Wales by S.I. 2000/2867, S.I. 2006/3295, S.I. 2006/3099 and SI 2008/2335.

[^f00042]: SR 1999 No 73.

[^f00043]: Section 329 was amended by the Town and Country Planning (Electronic Communications) (England) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/956).

[^f00044]: S.I. 2008/1556.

[^f00045]: See Command Paper 6614.

[^f00046]: See Command Paper 6993.

[^f00047]: O.J. No. L 194, 25.7.1975, p. 39. Council Directive 75/442/EEC was amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC (O.J. No. L 78, 26.3.1991, p. 32) and by Commission Decision 94/3/EC (O.J. No. L 5, 7.1.1994, p. 15).

[^f00048]: S.I. 2005/1806.

[^f00049]: O.J. No. L 135, 30.5.1991, p. 40.

[^f00050]: O. J. No L 140, 5.6.2009, p. 114.

[^f00051]: 1991 c. 57. See section 104.

[^f00052]: S.I. 2010/675.

[^f00053]: O.J. No. L 20, 26.1.2010, p. 7.

[^f00054]: O.J. No. L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7.

[^f00055]: S.I. 1995/418.

[^f00056]: S.I. 1999/1672.

[^f00057]: S.I. 1999/2228.

[^f00058]: S.I. 2005/2115.

[^f00059]: S.I. 2006/1284.

[^f00060]: S.I. 2006/2522.

[^f00061]: S.I. 2007/1067.

[^f00062]: S.I. 2010/2184.

[^f00063]: O.J. No. L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40. Council Directive 85/337/EEC was amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC, O.J. No. L 73, 14.3.1997, p.5; Directive 2003/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, O.J. No. L 156, 25.6.2003, p.17; and Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, O.J. No. L 140, 5.6.2009, p. 114.

Interpretation

In this Schedule—

• “airport” means an airport which complies with the definition in the 1944 Chicago Convention setting up the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Annex 14) ;

• “express road” means a road which complies with the definition in the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries of 15 November 1975 ;

• “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 shall not be treated as development of the description mentioned in paragraph 2(b) of this Schedule.

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Editorial notes

[^key-be37b3716594333413aa947f9a5a053d]: Instrument revoked (16.5.2017) by The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/571), reg. 76(1) (with transitional provisions in reg. 76(2)(3))

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