The list below is a record of advice the Planning Inspectorate has provided in respect of the Planning Act 2008 process.
There is a statutory duty under section 51 of the Planning Act 2008 to record the advice that is given in relation to an application or a potential application and to make this publicly available. Advice we have provided is recorded below together with the name of the person or organisation who asked for the advice and the project it relates to. The privacy of any other personal information will be protected in accordance with our Information Charter which you should view before sending information to the Planning Inspectorate.
Note that after a project page has been created for a particular application, any advice provided that relates to it will also be published under the ‘s51 advice’ tab on the relevant project page.
Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived. View the archived advice.
Enquiry
We have comments, observations and complaints about the recent non-statutory consultation events held by RiverOak.
Advice given
In a previous response to some individuals, the Planning Inspectorate explained that a note of the meeting held with RiverOak on 19 July 2016 was being prepared and would published to our website in due course.
The note of that meeting has now been published and is available to view, here: attachment 1
In the light of concern expressed by some members of the public in relation to the handling of personal data during recent non-statutory consultation events, the Inspectorate advises that in all cases it is the developer’s responsibility to ensure that the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 are satisfied.
Any concerns in respect of data handling could be brought to the attention of the Information Commissioners Office (attachment 2.
