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Cyngor i Highways Agency

Ymholiad

• Oddiwrth: Highways Agency
• Y dyddiad y rhoddwyd y cyngor: 23 Rhagfyr 2010
• Math o ymholiad: Email

Highways Agency query regarding statutory consultees and the EIA scoping procedure.

Cyngor a roddwyd

IPC Advice Note 7 states: 'There is no prescribed form for a Regulation 6 notification but any document submitted to the IPC (such as an email or letter) should state clearly that it is a Regulation 6 notification. On receipt of a Regulation 6 notification, the IPC will contact the consultation bodies. This is known as a Regulation 9 notification. This process facilitates preparation of the ES in respect of the proposed development and the applicant should therefore notify the IPC at a point when there is certainty about the scope of the development, any associated development and, if identified at that time, any preferred technological solutions, routes or layouts. At the same time or soon after contacting the consultation bodies, the IPC will let the applicant know which of the consultation bodies were sent a Regulation 9 notification. In some instances, depending on individual circumstances, the applicant may wish to include the Regulation 6 notification with the scoping request'.

Prior to the submission of your scoping request, the IPC will finalise the list of the statutory consultees which we are required to consult in relation to your scoping report. Under the EIA Regulations 8(3), the scoping request must be accompanied by/include 'a plan sufficient to identify the land'. The Commission would expect to receive a 'red line plan' outlining the boundary of the proposed development which encompasses all of the proposals, including any associated development for which a Development Consent Order will be required. We would also request, where ever possible, that the Applicant provides the red line plan in a suitable GIS shape file format.

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