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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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
Persons noted that they had not received an acknowledgement in respect of comments submitted via the applicant's website.
Advice given
The Planning Inspectorate met with RiverOak earlier this week on Wednesday 1 June 2016. As part of that meeting The Planning Inspectorate reported receiving correspondence in which it was noted that RiverOak had not responded to submissions made via their website. There is no statutory requirement for a developer to respond directly to individual correspondence, but RiverOak are aware of the frustrations this has created.
The activity that RiverOak are proposing to undertake over the summer period will be a non-statutory consultation. This activity will not therefore have to be conducted in accordance with the requirements of the Planning Act 2008 – the legislation that governs this type of airport-related development. RiverOak will however need to undertake a stage of statutory consultation before an application can be formally submitted. In preparation for that, RiverOak will have to produce a draft Statement of Community Consultation that sets out how they will undertake the consultation activity. They are required to consult with Thanet District Council and Kent County Council on the content of that document. If you feel that RiverOak are not sufficiently considering your views on this specific matter, you may wish to inform the relevant authorities about your specific concerns in respect of the way in which consultation is planned to be carried out.
Once any statutory consultation has been completed, the Planning Act 2008 requires that RiverOak will need to demonstrate that they have had regard to any representations received during that stage of consultation activity. Upon submission of an application, RiverOak would need to produce a Consultation Report to explain how they had regard to the relevant representations received, whether any changes were made to the proposals and, if no changes were made, provide an explanation as to why.
