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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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
On behalf of my client Royal Mail (IP reg is 10031419) I submitted a relevant representation on 19 June 2015 flagging our clients concerns about traffic impact during the construction phase. I am not aware that the applicant has made a response to our client?s relevant representation, please can you confirm.
Please can you also advise whether there will be an issue specific hearing on traffic and transportation matters and if so when. It is not evident from the Examination timetable whether there will be one.
Advice given
Thank you for your email in relation to the Meaford Energy Centre examination.
I can confirm submissions for Deadline 2 (28 September) have been published and are available for viewing at: attachment 1;stage=4&filter=Deadline+2+-+28-09-2015.
Pages 35-36 of the applicant?s comments on relevant representations contains a summary of its response to Royal Mail?s relevant representations which can be found at the following link: attachment 2. Should Royal Mail wish to make any comments on this, you must ensure you do so by Deadline 3 (22 October 2015) as per the examination timetable.
In response to your point regarding the traffic and transportation issues, these will be discussed at the hearing regarding environmental matters which was originally scheduled for Tuesday 10 November however you should have today received notification by the Examining Authority of an amendment to the examination timetable meaning the hearing into this will now be taking place on Wednesday 11 November (seating available from 12:30, hearing starts at 1:00pm). It should also be noted as part of the DCO hearing, any requirements around traffic and transportation may also be discussed/updated etc and this will be held on Thursday 12 November (seating available from 08:30, hearing starts at 9:00am). Please do however monitor our website (or sign up to the updates) as agendas for these hearings will be published on or around Wednesday 4 November and will provide you with a better idea of what will be discussed, and when.
Please also note, any party wishing to attend the hearing(s) should notify us in writing and indicate whether they wish to speak or not which will then help with the organisation of the hearing. Formal notification of this has also been issued today along with the amendment to the timetable which can be accessed here: attachment 3
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
