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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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.
East Midlands Gateway Rail Freight Interchange View all advice for this project
Enquiry
As an interested party, I have completed the online form however wonder how and when I will be prompted to provide further information in relation my representation.
Advice given
Thank you for your email and submission of a relevant representation in relation to the East Midlands Gateway Rail Freight Interchange.
Please note that after the relevant representation period closes on 3 November 2014 a single Examining Inspector or panel of Inspectors known as Examining Authority (ExA) will be appointed to examine the above application.
On appointment, the ExA will read the application documents and the relevant representations which will inform an initial assessment of principal issues. The ExA will then issue a letter to all interested parties (IP) which will include a draft timetable for examination of the application. This letter will als'o invite IPs to attend an initial meeting (known as the Preliminary Meeting) at which the ExA will invite representations on the draft timetable and about how the application is proposed to be examined. Shortly after the meeting, the ExA will issue a second letter inproviding the final examination timetable to IPs. The timetable will set out deadlines for written submissions and the dates for any hearings. All submissions must be made by the deadlines specified in the timetable.
Please note these letters will be sent to you via your preferred contact method as requested on your relevant representation form. They will also be published to the project webpage on the Planning Portal, here:
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For more information on how the process works, you are likely to find the Planning Inspectorate's advice notes (particularly 8.1 through 8.5) useful. They are available here:
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The Inspectorate has also produced a short film explaining the decision-making process from end to end, available here:
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