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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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.
M4 Junctions 3 to 12 Smart Motorway View all advice for this project
Enquiry
Queries regarding the scope for late Relevant Representations and the formal appointment of the Examining Authority.
Advice given
As the deadline for submitting relevant representations for the above project has now elapsed, any submissions received during the ?pre-examination? stage will need to be accepted as ?additional submissions? in order to be included in the examination of the application. The Examining Authority (ExA) can use it?s discretion to accept submissions during this stage only once it has been formally appointed. There is currently no scope to accept any submissions late as the ExA is yet to be appointed.
If you wish to submit a representation, the case team will hold it until the ExA has been appointed and contact you with regard to whether it has been accepted as an additional submission. As Network Rail have been identified as a statutory party, you will receive the ?rule 4 and 6? letter which will notify you of the appointed Examining Authority (ExA), invite you to attend the Preliminary Meeting and set out the ExA?s initial assessment of principle issues it wishes to examine. This procedural decision will be issued on or before 12 August 2015.
