Regulation 15 Availability of copies of EIA report

Where an EIA report is prepared by a planning authority in relation to a proposed masterplan consent area scheme, the planning authority must ensure that a reasonable number of copies of the EIA report are available for inspection at any place named (by virtue of regulation 11(2)(c)) in the notice published under regulation 11(1) as a place at which copies of the EIA report may be inspected.

The planning authority must provide copies of the EIA report in accordance with the terms of the notice published under regulation 11(1) and where that notice includes an address at which copies of the EIA report may be obtained a reasonable number of copies of the EIA report are to be available at that address.

A reasonable charge reflecting printing and distribution costs may be made to a member of the public for a copy of an EIA report provided in accordance with paragraph (2).