Regulation 18 Consultation where environmental statement received by planning authority
Where planning authority receive an environmental statement relating to an application to which regulation 6 applies, they shall—
place a copy of the environmental statement in Part I of the register together with a copy of the related application;
send to the Secretary of State a copy ot the application, of any plans and other documents sent with it, and of the environmental statement; and
consult the authorities, bodies or persons mentioned in Schedule 4 about the environmental statement and inform them that they may make representations.
Where an applicant for planning permission submits an environmental statement to the planning authority, he shall let them have enough copies of the environmental statement or parts thereof to enable them to comply with paragraph (1)(c) of this regulation and 3 additional copies.
Where under this regulation a planning authority consult any authority, body or person about any environmental statement, they shall give not less than 4 weeks' notice to such authority, body or person that environmental information is to be taken into consideration, and shall not take the environmental information into consideration until after the expiration of the period of such notice.
Where any authority, body or person which a planning authority are required to consult under this regulation consider that consultation with them is not required in respect of any environmental statement relating to any case or class of case or relating to any specified area, they shall so inform the planning authority in writing and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this regulation the planning authority shall not be required so to consult them.