Advice to RWE Npower Renewables Ltd
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- RWE Npower Renewables Ltd
- Date advice given
- 25 May 2011
- Enquiry type
Request for advice in respect of the draft section 48 notice for the proposed Galloper Wind Farm project.
Advice given
Galloper Wind Farm Limited are advised to ensure that you are aware of the applicant's duty under Regulation 11 of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2009. In the case of EIA development, Reg 11 requires applicants to send a copy of their s48 notice to the consultation bodies and to any person notified to you in accordance with Regulation 9(1)(c) at the same time as publishing their notice under section 48(1). The consultation bodies are those set out in Schedule 1 of the APFP Regs and would normally be the same as your Regulation 9 list received from the IPC around the time of EIA Scoping. This is a mandatory step.
In addition, you may wish to be mindful of the fact that many of the s42 consultees will be the same as those that you will be notifying regarding your s48 pre-application publicity under EIA Reg 11. IPC Guidance Note 1 (para 12) suggests that it would be helpful for consultees if the published deadlines for receipt of views on the application under s48 are as close as possible to deadlines given to consultees under s42. Some applicants have found it beneficial to coordinate the deadlines for comments under section 48, 42 and 47 although this is for the individual applicant to decide.