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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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
Please find attached Weddicar Parish Council's representation on the NWCC Consultation. While teh council understand that the Planning Inspectorate will not consider comments on the proposed works at this time, we draw your attention to section 2: Adequacy of consultation statement. In this, we raise concerns about the duration of the consultation process given the size of the project. We would appreciate your consideration on these concerns.
Advice given
Thank you for your email of 16 December regarding the pre application consultation undertaken by National Grid for the North West Coast Connections project. We are responsible for administering the development consent process and for providing advice to members of the public and others about the process.
If and when an application is submitted to us, we will formally request the views of the relevant local authorities about whether or not NG complied with the commitments they set out in their Statement of Community Consultation (SoCC). The SoCC is a document in which NG were required to explain the way in which they intended to consult the local communities affected by the proposals, including the duration of the consultation, the types of activities that were intended to take place and the geographical coverage of the consultation activity.
NG were required to consult the relevant local authorities about their consultation methodology before implementing it. As such, if you have strong views about the way in which local communities have been consulted on this project we would advise you to forward these to your local authority who may use them to inform their representation to us about the adequacy of NG’s pre application consultation, at the time the application is submitted.
If you would like more information about the development consent process we have produced useful videos and written material on our website here:
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