# The Masterplan Consent Area Scheme (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2024, Regulation 3: Prohibition on making a masterplan consent area scheme without an environmental assessment


The planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, must not make a masterplan consent area scheme which grants authorisation for EIA development unless an environmental impact assessment has been carried out in respect of that proposed development and in carrying out such assessment the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, must take the environmental information into account.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2024/9780111060933/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-masterplan-consent-area-scheme-environmental-impact-assessment-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-3
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