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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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
Query regarding alternatives
Advice given
Many of the points in your email are addressed by [advice given in response of 6 February 2017], although I appreciate that you have identified certain specific pieces of information that you would like National Grid to provide. I have notified National Grid of the concerns you raised in your response.
As I explained, Applicants should provide enough information to allow members of the public to participate in their consultation activities, but are not required to provide or produce information purely because other parties have requested it to support their submissions. As previously noted, further policy on the consideration of alternatives can be found in National Policy Statement EN-1, Section 4.4.
I do not know if National Grid hold the information that you have requested, and since we have received no application as yet, I cannot say if that information will be submitted at the examination. However once an application has been made and if it is accepted for examination, it is open to you raise issues regarding this with the Examining Authority.
Before accepting an application, the Planning Act 2008 requires that the Secretary of State must be satisfied that the Applicant’s pre-application consultation has complied with the provisions in the Act and that the application is of a satisfactory standard to be examined. As part of this we will consult local authorities and consider any representations received by those authorities as to whether the applicant has complied with sections 42, 47 and 48 of the Planning Act 2008.
