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Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2016 (W.S.I. No. 58 (W. 28) of 2016).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
Wales
Document type
Regulation
Date
2016
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Land & soil, Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
EIA Land-use planning Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Authorization/permit Access-to-information Waste disposal Hazardous waste Transport/storage Waste management
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

These Regulations consolidate, for Wales only, the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 and subsequent amendments. The Regulations, among other things: impose procedural requirements in relation to the consideration of applications for planning permission under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Principal amendments to the 1999 Regulations are: introduction of a requirement for the reasons for negative screening to be provided to be available for public inspection; requiring a local planning authority who propose to make a local development order to decide whether development is EIA development; and if it is, to take certain steps to enable them to take the environmental information into consideration before making the order; clarification of exercise by the Welsh Ministers of the power of direction; the inclusion of sites for the geological storage of carbon dioxide in Schedule 1(22) and installations for the capture of carbon dioxide streams for the purposes of geological storage in Schedule 2(3)(j). These amendments are required by the Directive on the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Directive 2009/31/EC). Schedules activities also concern, among other things, groundwater abstraction.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (1990 Chapter 8).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1990 (2017)

Keyword: Environmental planning, Policy/planning, Forestry protection measures, Forest management/forest conservation, Land-use planning, Institution, Expropriation, Enforcement/compliance, Offences/penalties, Soil rehabilitation, Protected area, National parks

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment.

Legislation | European Union | 2011 (2014)

Keyword: EIA, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Cultural heritage

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Repeals

Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999.

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1999

Keyword: EIA, Authorization/permit, Land-use planning, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Amended by

Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (W.S.I. No. 971 (W. 240) of 2016).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2016

Keyword: EIA, Land-use planning, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Authorization/permit, Access-to-information

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (W.S.I. No. 299 (W. 76) of 2019).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2019

Keyword: Land-use planning, EIA

Source: FAO, FAOLEX