Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022
Consultation with planning authority | ||
33. Where an application for a licence under section 29 is subject to a retrospective EIA, the Agency shall— | ||
(a) within 2 weeks after the date of receipt of a retrospective EIAR, give notice to the planning authority in whose functional area the abstraction is situate, that it has received a retrospective EIAR in respect of the application for a licence and request the planning authority, within 4 weeks after receipt of the notice, to furnish to the Agency any observations that the planning authority has in relation to the retrospective EIAR and the application for a licence, | ||
(b) consider any observations made to the Agency by the planning authority following a request under paragraph (a) before giving notice of its proposed decision under section 35 , and | ||
(c) enter into consultations, as the Agency considers appropriate, with the planning authority in relation to any environmental impacts of the abstraction. |