The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

Restriction of grant of permission by new simplified planning zone schemes or enterprise zone orders

24.  —No:

(a)adoption or approval of a simplified planning zone scheme;

(b)order designating an enterprise zone made; or

(c)modified scheme in relation to an enterprise zone approved,

after the commencement of these Regulations shall:

(i)grant planning permission for EIA development; or

(ii)grant planning permission for Schedule 2 development unless that grant is made subject to the prior adoption of a screening opinion or prior making of a screening direction that the particular proposed development is not EIA development.