{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-england-regulations-2006/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2362",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (England) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-england-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Scoping opinions",
  "text": "(1) After receiving a screening decision that a project is a significant project, but before applying for consent, the applicant may ask Natural England to provide its opinion on what information should be provided in the environmental statement (“a scoping opinion”).\n(2) If the applicant requests a scoping opinion, Natural England must consult the applicant and such of the consultation bodies as it thinks fit before providing its opinion.\n(3) If Natural England considers that it does not have sufficient information to provide a scoping opinion, it may ask the applicant to supply any additional information it requires within 28 days of the date on which it received the request for the scoping opinion.\n(4) Natural England must provide the applicant with the scoping opinion within 5 weeks of—\n(a) the date it received the request for a scoping opinion; or\n(b) where applicable, the date it received the additional information requested under paragraph (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2362/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:22:33.645019+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}