- Enforced by
- Environment Agency, DEFRA
- Status
- Repealed
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 1 of 16 obligations carry a fine up to £1,000. 15 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Applicant6
Any Person2
Plus 8 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Applicant — also bound by 307 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
42 duties
The Land Registration Rules 2003
25 duties
Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 (Aircrew)
20 duties
Value Added Tax Regulations 1995
18 duties
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.004
Prohibition on the grant of planning permission without consideration of environmental information
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Authorities must consider environmental information before granting permissionLocal authority
s.005
Opinion as to whether an application will be a Schedule 1 or 2 application
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authority must decide if a project needs an environmental assessmentLocal authority
s.006
Pre-application directions
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must issue environmental impact directionsCrown / Minister / Government department
s.007
Availability of directions etc. for inspection
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authorities must record environmental screening decisions on the registerLocal authority
s.008
Procedure to facilitate preparation of environmental statements
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authority must identify and notify consultation bodiesLocal authority
s.010
Application referred to the Secretary of State without an environmental statement
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must notify you if an environmental statement is missingCrown / Minister / Government department
s.011
Appeal to the Secretary of State without an environmental statement
Regulated
- Decide whether to provide an environmental statement during a planning appealApplicant
s.012
Publicity where a planning application is accompanied by an environmental statement
Regulated
- Include environmental details in planning noticesAny Person
s.013
Publicity where an environmental statement is submitted in course of planning procedures
Prosecution
- Provide false information regarding planning publicityAny Person
Fine up to £1,000
s.014
Procedure where the planning authority receive an environmental statement
Regulated
- Submit and distribute environmental statements for planning applicationsApplicant
s.015
Procedure where the Secretary of State receives an environmental statement
Regulated
- Submit copies of environmental statement to the Secretary of StateApplicant
s.017
Obtaining of planning permission by local authorities
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authorities must prepare and publicise environmental statementsLocal authority
s.018
Availability of copies of an environmental statement
Regulated
- Provide copies of your environmental statement at the designated addressApplicant
s.019
Provision of a copy of an environmental statement for the Secretary of State
Regulated
- Provide a copy of your environmental statement to the Secretary of StateApplicant
s.021
Further information and evidence respecting environmental statements
Regulated
- Provide further information or evidence for environmental statementsApplicant
s.023
Duty to inform the Secretary of State
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authorities must notify the Secretary of State of planning decisionsLocal authority
10 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation, commencement and application
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
Extension of the power to provide in a development order for the giving of directions as respects the manner in which planning applications are dealt with
s.009
Application made to a planning authority without an environmental statement
s.016
Extension of the period for an authority’s decision on a planning application
s.020
Charges
s.022
Provision of information
s.024
Service of notices etc.
s.025
Application to the High Court
s.026
Isles of Scilly
Schedules
Schedules
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s.sch001
The carrying out of building or other operations, or the...
s.sch001
The carrying out of operations whereby land is filled with...
s.sch002
Agriculture (a) water-management for agriculture (b) poultry-rearing
s.sch002
Infrastructure projects (a) an industrial estate development project
s.sch002
Other projects (a) a holiday village or hotel complex
s.sch002
The modification of a development which has been carried out,...
s.sch002
Development within a description mentioned in Schedule 1, where it...
s.sch002
Extractive industry (a) extracting peat (b) deep drilling, including in...
s.sch002
Energy industry (a) a non-nuclear thermal power station, not being...
s.sch002
Processing of metals (a) an ironworks or steelworks including a...
s.sch002
Glass making the manufacture of glass
s.sch002
Chemical industry (a) the treatment of intermediate products and production...
s.sch002
Food industry (a) the manufacture of vegetable or animal oils...
s.sch002
Textile, leather, wood and paper industries (a) a wool scouring,...
s.sch002
Rubber industry the manufacture and treatment of elastomer-based products
s.sch003
An environmental statement comprises a document or series of documents...
s.sch003
The specified information is— (a) a description of the development...
s.sch003
An environmental statement may include, by way of explanation or...
s.sch003
Where further information is included in an environmental statement pursuant...
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