SCHEDULE
Article 8
Amendments to secondary legislation
1. Amendment of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011
(1) The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 20116are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 61 for paragraph (2) substitute—
“2 Subject to paragraph (3), where it falls to an authority to determine an EIA application, articles 27 (applications made under planning condition) and 34 (time periods for decision) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 shall have effect as if for each of the references in article 27(2) and 34(2)(a) and (b) to a period of 8 and 13 weeks respectively there were substituted a reference to a period of 16 weeks.
3 Where it falls to an authority to determine an application for technical details consent for EIA development, article 34 (time periods for decisions) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 shall have effect as if for each reference in article 34(2) to a period of 5 or 10 weeks respectively there were substituted a reference to a period of 16 weeks.”.
2. Amendment of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015
(1) The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 20157is amended as follows.
(2) In article 15 (publicity for applications for planning permission)—
(a)
(a) after paragraph (4) insert—
“4A In a case of an application for technical details consent to which neither paragraph (2) nor paragraph (4) applies, the application must be publicised—
(a) in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (7), and
(b) by giving requisite notice by site display in at least one place on or near the land to which the application relates for not less than 21 days.”;
(b)
(b) in paragraph (5) for “neither paragraph (2) nor paragraph (4)...