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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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.
General
Enquiry
See attached letter
Advice given
I note you acknowledge that National Grid has paused its work on the North West Coast Connection project and as the project has not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate (the Inspectorate), we have no formal powers to intervene on consultees behalf. However the Applicant has a statutory duty to take consultation responses into account and, if the application is submitted to us, part of our compliance checks are to ensure the consultation has been conducted properly.
With regard to your concern about the timeframe for the Applicant’s response to nopylons’ alternative proposal for an offshore route from Selker Bay to Walney, this is something the Applicant may respond to in their Consultation Report, which would be submitted to the Inspectorate as part of the application documentation. The Applicant has stated in their Scoping Report that a description of the alternatives considered, and an explanation of the decisions taken, will be provided within the Environmental Statement, which will also be submitted as part of the application documentation. The Examining Authority can also request the Applicant’s view on nopylons’ proposal during the Examination, if they consider it relevant to their examination of the application.
A copy of your correspondence has been placed on our records and will be presented to the Inspector at Acceptance, together with the application documents and local authorities’ comments on the Applicant’s consultation.
After the decision has been made regarding whether to accept the application for Examination all documents used to inform the decision will be published on our website.
If the application for development consent is formally accepted you will be able to submit your views in relation to the project which will be considered by the Examining Authority during the Examination.
The Inspectorate has published a series of advice notes which explain the Examination process, including information on how to get involved; of particular interest are advice notes 8.1 to 8.5. These are available at: attachment 1
We also recently published a Frequently Asked Questions document regarding Pre-application consultation and this can be viewed on our website here: attachment 2.
