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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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.
Thanet Extension Offshore Wind Farm View all advice for this project
Enquiry
Vattenfall sent their draft Statement of Community Consultation to the Planning Inspectorate for comment
Advice given
We note that you have consulted Thanet and Dover District Councils and Kent County Council on the SoCC however due to the offshore elements of the project you may wish to also consult the Marine Management Organisation.
We note that the table at 10.1 lists the places that the SoCC will be available to view. Paragraph 57 of the Communities and Local Government pre-application guidance also advises that the SoCC should be made available online, at any exhibitions or other events (such as those listed at 10.3), placed at local deposit points (such as those listed at 10.2) and sent to local community groups as appropriate.
We note the list of newspapers in which the consultation will be advertised at table 7.1.1.1. Due to the offshore element of the project you may also wish to advertise in a fishing trade journal. Please note that a notice stating where the SoCC can be inspected must be published in a local newspaper.
The dates for the consultation period are not yet set out in the SoCC. In accordance with paragraph 23 of the Communities and Local Government pre-application guidance the deadline for consultation responses should be not less than 28 days from the day after receipt/last publication.
