EIA scoping opinions can be requested of the planning authority by developers under Regulation 17 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017. The purpose of such a request is to seek the planning authority’s opinion as to identifying the issues that should form the focus of the EIA Report’s assessment. This opinion should help to provide the EIA Report with a sharper focus upon those matters deemed likely to generate significant environmental effects upon prescribed environmental factors, in line with Regulation 4(2) - (3). Compilation of a scoping opinion involves the planning authority consulting with a range of statutory (and non-statutory, as appropriate) consultation bodies in order to ensure that the scoping opinion is fully informed by the respective remits of same.
In accordance with Regulation 28, the planning authority makes available for inspection Scoping Requests received and Scoping Opinions issued, for a period of two years, below:
Under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 any proposal to construct or operate a power generation scheme with a capacity in excess of 50 megawatts requires Scottish Ministers’ consent. Under such circumstances the entire application process, including requests for and issue of any scoping opinions, is administered on the Scottish Ministers’ behalf by the Energy Consents Unit (ECU) of the Scottish Government. To view any of the scoping opinions issued by Scottish Ministers please refer to the ECU’s website: www.energyconsents.scot/.
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