reg 13 Screening decisions: consultation with local planning authority
(1) This regulation and regulations 14 to 16 apply where the relevant authority— (a) is required to make a screening decision following a request under regulation 10; or (b) is required, or decides, to make a screening decision under regulation 11 on receipt of an application for a section 36 or 37 consent or a section 36 variation. (2) The relevant authority must within 14 days after the date on which the relevant authority receives the information referred to in regulation 12 (and, where paragraph (1)(a) applies, a plan of the site of the development) consult— (a) every local planning authority for the area in which the development will be carried out; or (b) if the development will be carried out in relevant waters, any local planning authority that the relevant authority thinks appropriate, as to its views on whether or not an environmental impact assessment should be undertaken in respect of the development. (3) Paragraph (2) does not apply in relation to a local planning authority if the developer has already provided that local planning authority's views to the relevant authority. (4) The local planning authority must give its views (if any) to the relevant authority within— (a) 21 days after the date on which the local planning authority receives a request under paragraph (2); or (b) any longer period notified in writing by the relevant authority, which must not end more than 28 days after the date on which the 21-day period referred to in sub-paragraph (a) ends.