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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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.
River Humber Gas Pipeline Replacement Project View all advice for this project
Enquiry
Phonecall - summary below
Advice given
Mr Kipling (on behalf of the Environment Agency) raised an issue via email that he had received four separate notifications for the same Rule 17 letter. The wrong advice was given in response by PINS, that he had received these notifications because he is listed as an Interested Party, a Statutory Party and an Affected Person, as well as being signed up to receive email alerts (see s51 advice 1 March 2016). A call was made to Mr Kipling today explaining that only Interested Parties should have been informed about the Rule 17 letter, and that he had been listed twice in our list of Interested/Statutory Parties contacts in error. An apology was given to Mr Kipling for advising him incorrectly, and he was advised that steps would be taken to ensure that this would not happen again.
Mr Kipling also raised the issue that other individuals within the Environment Agency had received these notifications, and that this was not necessary as he should be the sole point of contact for the Environment Agency for this project, and also that it may be helpful if notifications were issued once submissions were published, as responses to these documents were sometimes required within a short deadline. Mr Kipling was advised that these issues would also be looked into.
