{"id":15658,"date":"2017-05-17T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T15:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15658"},"modified":"2017-05-17T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:15:24","slug":"changes-in-wales-eia-highlighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15658","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Wales\u2019 EIA highlighted"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Chief Planner for Wales, Neil Hemington, has written to all heads of planning in Wales about changes to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regime due to come into force on 16 May.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The process of screening \u2018schedule 2\u2019 development has been amended, including changes to the information that must be submitted with a screening request and what the local planning authority must consider when making a screening opinion<\/li>\n<li>The 21-day period for making an opinion remains, however, where an extension is agreed, the maximum time before an opinion must be given is 90 days<\/li>\n<li>The information to be included in an environmental statement has been expanded<\/li>\n<li>The consultation requirements have also been amended, providing a minimum public consultation period of 30 days, online publicity, and making certain information electronically accessible<\/li>\n<li>New transitional arrangements have been set out so the 2016 regulations will continue to apply in certain circumstances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download\u00a0the full <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.wales\/topics\/planning\/policy\/dear-cpo-letters\/the-town-and-country-environmental-impact-assessment-wales-regulations-2017\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planningportal.co.uk\/news\/article\/502\/planning_news_-_11_may_2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Planning Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Planner for Wales, Neil Hemington, has written to all heads of planning in Wales about changes to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regime due to come into force on 16 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15660,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15658\/revisions\/15660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}