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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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.
General
Enquiry
I would like to know whether any DCO has been subject to longer examination/determination timescales than those outlined in the Planning Act 2008 (i.e. 6 months for examination, 3 months for the panel to write their report, and 3 months for the SoS to make their decision)?
Advice given
For the 65 applications decided to date, the statutory time-limit for examination (6 months) and reporting (3 months) has not been exceeded.
In a very limited number of cases, and for important and justified reasons, the Secretary of State has taken longer than 3 months to make his/ her decision.
