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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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
As far as I am aware there has been no activity with regard to this proposal, nor a response to the scoping opinion of 7th August 2015.
Is there a period beyond which the material is ‘out of date’ or a time limit for the applicant to respond to the points raised?
Advice given
There is no time limit within which the applicant has to address any points raised in the scoping opinion, and the applicant is able to request a further scoping opinion if it wishes to. However, it is a matter of judgment for the applicant, in consultation with the relevant statutory bodies, including the relevant local authorities, as to whether additional work is need to inform the Environmental Impact Assessment and application as a whole.
As follow up to the scoping opinion, we encourage all applicants to maintain discussions with statutory bodies and the local community throughout the pre-application process so that any application contains information that is helpful for the examination (if the application is accepted for examination). The applicant is also required to formally consult with statutory bodies and the local community and this normally happens after the scoping stage, with timings subject to the applicant’s discretion.
The applicant has not yet undertaken statutory consultation on the project to date, and at that stage, there will be the opportunity for you and others to identify information that you consider is needed to understand the application in full. The examination stage also allows for any interested person to make a representation and for the Inspector(s) to request further information as well.
