Regulation 8 Scoping opinions

(1)

A planning authority or the Scottish Ministers may adopt a scoping opinion.

(2)

A planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, must not adopt a scoping opinion until they have consulted—

(a)

the consultation bodies,

(b)

the Health and Safety Executive where they would be required to be consulted under paragraph 3 or 4 of schedule 5 (consultation by the planning authority) of the Development Management Procedure Regulations in relation to an application for planning permission for the proposed development,

(c)

the Office for Nuclear Regulation where it would be required to be consulted under paragraph 3A of schedule 5 of the Development Management Procedure Regulations in relation to an application for planning permission for the proposed development, and

(d)

any other public body which the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, consider is likely to have an interest in the proposed development by reason of that body’s specific environmental responsibilities or local and regional competencies.

(3)

A later scoping opinion supersedes the terms of an earlier scoping opinion and a scoping direction supersedes the terms of an earlier scoping opinion or earlier scoping direction.