The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997
These Regulations are concerned with the further implementation in Scotland of Council Directive 85/337/EEC (OJ No. L175, 5.7.85, p.40) on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment. They amend Part II (Planning) of the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988 (“the Environmental Assessment Regulations”) to apply to appeals against enforcement notices and to allow a developer to check the need for environmental assessment in connection with a proposal which may benefit from permitted development rights. In addition the Regulations remove Part IV (Specific Developments in New Towns) of the Environmental Assessment Regulations because the new town development corporations have been wound up.