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Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived.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
Please could I check a matter with you? Our team has been considering the Scoping Opinion in detail and have noticed a typo in paragraph ID 3.1.1. The Inspectorate's comments state that "[t]he Inspectorate agrees that significant direct effects are likely and that this matter can be scoped out of the ES…". We anticipate that this should say "significant direct effects are unlikely" because this is the reason for scoping this matter out of the ES. Please can we request that the Scoping Opinion is corrected and reissued to us, to amend the typo and provide clarity? I hope the above is helpful. Please do get in touch if you need any further information.
Advice given
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. The Inspectorate acknowledges a typographical error in ID 3.1.1 of the Grimsby to Walpole Scoping Opinion adopted on 10 September 2024. The Scoping Opinion states that "[t]he Inspectorate agrees that significant direct effects are likely and that this matter can be scoped out of the ES…" (emphasis added). The Inspectorate clarifies that this should state "[t]he Inspectorate agrees that significant direct effects are unlikely and that this matter can be scoped out of the ES…" (emphasis added). As discussed, this will be published on the project webpage as s51 advice to the Applicant.
