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Regulation 3(3)
1. For the purposes of this Schedule–
“sensitive area” means–
[F1land notified under section 3(1) or 5(1) (sites of special scientific interest) of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 M1;
land in respect of which an order has been made under section 23 (nature conservation orders) of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004.]
a property appearing on the World Heritage List kept under article 11(2) of the 1972 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage M2;
a scheduled monument within the meaning of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 M3;
an area designated F2... as a National Scenic Area by a direction made by the Secretary of State under section 262C of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 M4;
a European site within the meaning of regulation 10 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats etc.) Regulations 1994 M5;
“specified threshold” means any threshold specified in hectares in Column 2 or 3 of the Table in paragraph 2 below.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (1.2.2007) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/614), regs. 1, 11(8)(a)
F2Words in sch. 2 para. 1 omitted (1.2.2007) by virtue of The Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/614), regs. 1, 11(8)(b)
F3Words in sch. 2 para. 1 inserted (1.2.2007) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/614), regs. 1, 11(8)(c)
Marginal Citations
M2See Command Paper 9424.
2.—(1) For the purposes of regulation 3(3), the threshold for any project of a type specified in an entry in column 1 in the Table below is the area (if any) specified in the corresponding entry in Column 2 or 3 of the Table, whichever is appropriate to the land covered, or proposed to be covered, by that project.
(2) This paragraph applies subject to paragraph 3 of this Schedule.
TABLE
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
---|---|---|
Type of Project | Threshold where any part of the land is in a sensitive area | Threshold where no part of the land is in a sensitive area |
Afforestation | 2 hectares, where the sensitive area is one referred to in paragraph 1(e) above. No threshold in the case of other sensitive areas. | 5 hectares. |
Deforestation | 0.5 hectare, where the sensitive area is one referred to in paragraph 1(e) above No threshold in the case of other sensitive areas. | 1 hectare. |
Forest road works | No threshold. | 1 hectare. |
Forest quarry works | No threshold. | 1 hectare. |
3.—(1) Where the project under consideration is an extending project–
(a)the thresholds specified in the Table in paragraph 2 above shall not apply; and
(b)the threshold applicable for that project for the purposes of regulation 3(3) shall be instead such balance (if any), in hectares, of the area specified in Column 2 or, as the case may be, Column 3 in that Table opposite the entry in Column 1 for that type of project as remains after deduction of the accumulated material past project area).
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b) above, it is immaterial whether any part of the accumulated material past project area is, or is not, in a sensitive area (or any kind of sensitive area).
(3) In this paragraph–
“extending project” means any project covering, or proposed to cover, land adjoining the area of one or more material past projects;
“material past project”, in relation to a particular extending project, means a project which–
is of the same type (as specified in regulation 3(2)) as that extending project; and
was completed after the coming into force of these Regulations; and
was completed not more than five years before the proposed date for starting the work relating to that extending project;
“Accumulated material past project area”, in relation to a particular extending project, means the total area covered by–
the material past project or, if more than one, all of them; and
every other project–
whose area adjoins the material past project, or one of them; and
which satisfies conditions (a) to (c) in the definition of “material past project”.
4.—(1) The facts–
(a)that a project is or would be adjoining or, in the opinion of the Commissioners or (as the case may be) the Scottish Ministers, near another project of any type specified in regulation 3(2), and
(b)that, for any reason, the case in question does not fall within paragraph 3 above,
may be regarded by the Commissioners or the Scottish Ministers as rendering the circumstances of that project exceptional for the purposes of regulation 6(3) or (as the case may be) 7(6).
(2) This paragraph–
(a)shall not affect the application of those regulations in a case which does fall within paragraph 3; and
(b)shall not be interpreted as limiting the generality of the references in those regulations to circumstances which are, in the opinion of the Commissioners or (as the case may be) the Scottish Ministers, exceptional.
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