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PART 3 Procedures Concerning Applications for Planning Permission
9.Subsequent applications where environmental information previously provided
10.Subsequent applications where environmental information not previously provided
11.Application made to a local planning authority without an environmental statement
12.Application referred to the Welsh Ministers without an environmental statement
13.Appeal to the Welsh Ministers without an environmental statement
PART 5 Publicity and Procedures on Submission of Environmental Statements
18.Procedure where an environmental statement is submitted to a local planning authority
19.Publicity where an environmental statement is submitted after the planning application
20.Provision of copies of environmental statements and further information for the Welsh Ministers on referral or appeal
21.Procedure where an environmental statement is submitted to the Welsh Ministers
24.Further information and evidence in respect of environmental statements
25.Consideration of whether planning permission should be granted
PART 7 Availability of Directions etc. and Notification of Decisions
PART 8 Applications for planning permission made to the Welsh Ministers
PART 10 Unauthorised Development
44.Prohibition on the grant of planning permission for unauthorised EIA development
48.Appeal to the Welsh Ministers without a screening opinion or screening direction
49.Appeal to the Welsh Ministers without an environmental statement
50.Procedure where an environmental statement is submitted to the Welsh Ministers
51.Further information and evidence respecting environmental statements
52.Publicity for environmental statements or further information
Descriptions of development for the purposes of the definition of “Schedule 1 development”
1.Crude-oil refineries (excluding undertakings manufacturing only lubricants from crude oil)...
2. (a) Thermal power stations and other combustion installations with...
3. (a) Installations for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel;...
4. (a) Integrated works for the initial smelting of cast-iron...
5.Installations for the extraction of asbestos and for the processing...
6.Integrated chemical installations, that is to say, installations for the...
7. (a) Construction of lines for long-distance railway traffic and...
8. (a) Inland waterways and ports for inland-waterway traffic which...
9.Waste disposal installations for the incineration, chemical treatment (as defined...
10.Waste disposal installations for the incineration or chemical treatment (as...
11.Groundwater abstraction or artificial groundwater recharge schemes where the annual...
13.Waste water treatment plants with a capacity exceeding 150,000 population...
14.Extraction of petroleum and natural gas for commercial purposes where...
15.Dams and other installations designed for the holding back or...
16.Pipelines with a diameter of more than 800 millimetres and...
17.Installations for the intensive rearing of poultry or pigs with...
18.Industrial plants for— (a) the production of pulp from timber...
19.Quarries and open-cast mining where the surface of the site...
20.Installations for storage of petroleum, petrochemical or chemical products with...
22.Installations for the capture of carbon dioxide streams for the...
23.Any change to or extension of development listed in this...
Information for inclusion in environmental statements
2.A description of the reasonable alternatives (for example in terms...
3.A description of the relevant aspects of the current state...
4.A description of the factors specified in regulation 4(2) likely...
5.A description of the likely significant effects of the development...
6.A description of the forecasting methods or evidence used to...
7.A description of the measures envisaged to avoid, prevent, reduce...
8.A description of the expected significant adverse effects of the...
9.A non-technical summary of the information provided under paragraphs 1...
10.A reference list detailing the sources used for the descriptions...
Functions under Section 141 of the 1990 Act
3.In this Schedule and in the application of other regulations...
4.(1) Where, on consideration of a purchase notice it appears...
5.Where it appears to the Welsh Ministers that the relevant...
6.(1) Where the applicant proposes to submit an environmental statement,...
7.Where— (a) a notification has been given under paragraph 6(3),...
8.Where it appears to the Welsh Ministers that the environmental...
1.Modification of provisions on prohibition of granting planning permission or subsequent consent
2.Modification of provisions on application to local planning authority without an environmental statement
3.Disapplication of regulations and modifications of provisions on application referred to or appealed to the Welsh Ministers without an environmental statement
4.Substitution of references to section 78 of the 1990 Act right of appeal and modification of provisions on appeal to the Welsh Ministers without an environmental statement
5.Modification of provisions on preparation, publicity and procedures on submission of environmental statements
6.Modification of provisions on application to the High Court and giving of directions
8.Determination of conditions and right of appeal on non-determination
10.ROMP applications: duty to make a prohibition order after two years suspension of permission
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