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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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
The PCBA team and member supporters have raised some questions that I agreed to send to you; I should be glad of your advice.
1. Will you and the PINS team still be able to answer questions after 11 March Closure?
2. What happens to materials considered as Representations sent in to PINS after Closure?
3. Will you notify IPs that the ExA report has been sent to Secretary of State (SoS) and the date on which it was sent?
4. We understand that ExA has three months to make a report to SoS; he has a further three months in which to decide the Application. If the ExA report is made before its ?time is up?, does the SoS ?three months? begin then, or can the full six months elapse before a decision is due?
5. This is an Application that has generated an unprecedented amount of public interest and input. It would be appreciated if a copy of the ExA Report could be made available to IPs at the time it is sent to the Secretary of State. This would mirror the approach with other planning reports which are available to interested parties prior to the meeting at which a decision is taken to consent, or not. Is there anything that prevents this happening in the case of Navitus Bay?
Advice given
1. We will only be able to answer questions regarding the NSIP process and will not make comments on the evidence submitted in the examination.
2. Submissions received after an examination has closed (during the recommendation stage) are not made available to the Examining authority and will not be taken into account within an Examining authority's report to the Secretary of State. The Planning Inspectorate will hold representation until the end of the recommendation stage and then send it separately to the relevant Secretary of State, immediately following the submission of the Examining authority's recommendation report. It is then for the Secretary of State to decide whether or not to take further representations into consideration
3. We do not send a letter to interested parties but the website will be updated to inform the public that the report has been submitted to the Secretary of State.
4. The Secretary has three months from the date that he/she receives it. Therefore if the report is submitted early the Secretary of State decision will be issued within 3 months of that date.
5. The report is a report on the ExAs findings and gives the Secretary of state the ExAs recommendation, it is not a consultation document and as such there is no provision to make the report publically available prior to the secretary of state?s decision.
