Hirwaun Power Station

The list below includes a record of advice we have provided for this project. For a list of all advice issued by the Planning Inspectorate, including non-project related advice, please go to the Register of advice page.

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, including the name of the person who requested the advice, and to make this publicly available.

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Enquiry received via meeting
Advice on the applicants Non-Material Change request consutee list
Thank you for providing your draft list of consultees for the proposed non-material change requests. We have the following advice to give regarding the amended consultee lists for Hirwaun and Progress Power. The advice is without prejudice to any decision the secretary of state may make and I hope you find it helpful.

Progress Power

On the basis of their previous involvement in the examination, we consider that you might wish to provide additional justification to the Secretary of State (SoS) on why you do not propose to consult the following consultees:

Andrew P Colchester
Arqiva Telecommunications Asset Development Company Limited
David Ellis
Eleanor Havers (Agent to the Talbots)
Eleco plc
Gordon Ellis Talbot
Harry Charles Moore
Hayley Talbot
HSBC Bank plc
John Cole Farms Limited
Mr McGowen
Quiet Sports Fishery Management
St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocesan Board of Finance
Steve Jacobs
Tracy Lorraine Jacobs
UK Power Networks Limited.

For similar reasons, you may also wish to retain the following consultees:

Brome & Oakley Parish Council
Common Concern
South Norfolk Council

There were also a number of people who registered as Interested Parties expressly for the examination and you may wish to consider consulting them directly as part of this.

Hirwaun

On the basis of their previous involvement in the examination, we consider that you might wish to provide additional justification to the Secretary of State (SoS) on why you do not propose to consult the following consultees:

Ashtenne (AIF) Limited
Ashtenne Industrial Fund Nominee No. 1 Limited
British Gas Trading Limited
Canal and River Trust
Carol Ann Jenkins
CCF Limited
Cefn Strain Gauges Limited
Celtic Energy Limited
Ceridwyn Short
Deepan Rasiklal Khiroya
Eftec Limited
Eunice Davies
Forward Sound Limited
Ifan Geraint Jenkins
International Greetings UK Limited
J.D Burford Limited
James Snowdon
Mark Newman
Nabeel Yunis Soroya
Naveed Amir Soroya
Paul Jonathan Lloyd
Phillip Sedgemore
Sandeep Rasiklal Khiroya
Skipton Building Society
South Wales Electricity Limited
Swan Mill (Holdings) Limited
Tallyspace Limited
Tip Top Toilets Limited
Walter Energy Inc
Walters Plant Hire Limited
Welsh Tyre Recycling Services Limited
Wendy Joseph
West & Wales Utilities Limited

The Inspectorate would recommend the applicant to retain on its consultee list the following consutlees as they partook in the examination process:

Neath Port Talbot
Network Rail
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
Royal Mail
South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner

We note you have excluded some S.56(2)(d) consultees in the table below. According to our records these s.56 (2) (d) persons were not included in the application book of reference revision 3. It might therefore be prudent to clarify to the SoS how these parties have been identified and why their rights are not being infringed by the changes applied for.


Lloyds Bank plc
LR (Cardiff) Limited
Metech Recycling (UK) Limited
National Westminster Bank plc
Nationwide Building Society
Nigel Morrison
Peter Burford
Richard Gordon Oliver
Rodd Properties Limited
Rowe Estates (UK) Limited
Simon Jeremy Bryant
Susan Purnell
Taylors Crisps Limited
The Authentic Curry Company Limited
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
Union Pension Trustees Limited
Wilfred Vaughan Jones
Wolseley UK Limited
Wolseley Utilities Limited
WTB Properties Limited


A minor final point - you may also wish might want to review the entry saying Occupier(s) as it is currently unclear which plots this relates to.

07 July 2016
Chris McKerrow
Enquiry received via meeting
response has attachments
Meeting regarding applying for a Non-Material Change
Please see attached meeting note

30 June 2016
Chris McKerrow
Enquiry received via email
response has attachments
Section 51 advice following issue of acceptance decision
Please see document attached.

16 April 2014
Hirwaun Power Station Hirwaun Power Limited
Enquiry received via email
Email received from NRW regarding various matters on the Hirwaun Power Station scheme, including European Protected Species, air quality and Habitats Regulations Assessment documentation.
This application is currently at the Acceptance stage of the Planning Act 2008 process. A decision whether or not to accept the application for examination must be made by 18 April 2014.

Please be advised that the Examining Authority will not have regard to these comments during the Acceptance stage of this application. As such, should the application to accepted and you wish for these comments to be taken into regard by the Examining Authority appointed to examine the application, it is suggested that you re-submit these comments as a relevant representation during the Pre-Examination stage. There will be a minimum period of 28 days to provide these comments. Please note it is for the applicant to publicise the decision to accept its application for examination, and invite anyone who wishes to do so to register with the Planning Inspectorate to make a representation about it.

27 March 2014
Natural Resources Wales NRW
Enquiry received via email
response has attachments
Request for comments on the following draft documents: draft Development Consent Order (clean), a track-changed version of the draft Development Consent Order and land and works plans.
The following comments are without prejudice to any decision made under section 55 of the Planning Act 2008 (as amended) or by the Secretary of State on any submitted application.

Draft Plans

The individual Book of Reference (BoR) plots within the plans are not as easily identifiable ? it is not clear where one plot starts and another one ends. The suggestion here would be to make boundaries between plots more distinctive.

It is noted that some CA plots have now been removed from the plans. The applicant is encouraged to ensure that the BoR matches the plot numbers on the plans. For example if 1_MS has now been removed, the shift in the numbering of the plots needs to be consistent in both the plans and the BoR.

Draft Book of Reference

The following are general comments which the applicant may wish to consider:

- Reference should be made within the document to plot numbers and on which plan(s) these numbers are presented. This could be in the form of a column at the far left which references the plan for each of the plots.
- Details of addresses should be repeated in full throughout the document, rather than ?Address as at parcel 1_ER?, for example.
- Part 2 of the Book of Reference should not be split into Part 2a and Part 2b, rather a single Part 2 should be present.
- If there are no persons within Parts 4 and 5 then an overall statement should be present. For example, ?No land was identified which should be included in this section?.

Draft DCO

The comments on the draft DCO are attached. Please note that these queries relate solely to matters raised by the drafting of the substantive DCO Articles and Schedules, and not the merits of the proposal. They are not exhaustive, are limited by the restricted time available for consideration, and raised without prejudice to the acceptance or otherwise of any eventual application and any queries that may be raised by the Examining Authority if an application is accepted.

14 March 2014
Colin Turnbull
Enquiry received via email
response has attachments
The applicant requested comments from the Planning Inspectorate on thesecond draft Consultation Report submitted in January 2014.
Please see the attached document for the Planning Inspectorate's comments on the draft document.

14 February 2014
Hirwaun Power Ltd - Colin Turnbull
Enquiry received via meeting
response has attachments
Meeting with the applicant to provide an update on the project and to discuss draft documents submitted in December 2013
Please see meeting note attached

15 January 2014
Hirwaun Power Ltd - Colin Turnbull
Enquiry received via email
response has attachments
The applicant requested from the comments from the Planning Inspectorate on their draft documents including draft Development Consent Order (DCO) and Explanatory Memorandum, Land/Works Plans, Consultation Report.
Please see document attached for the Planning Inspectorates comments provided to the developer.

03 January 2014
Chris Girdham
Enquiry received via meeting
response has attachments
Meeting with applicant to provide update on the project.
Please see meeting note attached.

06 December 2013
Colin Turnbull
Enquiry received via meeting
response has attachments
Please see attached meeting note.

22 August 2013
Chris Girdham
Enquiry received via meeting
response has attachments
Introductory project meeting between the developer for the Hirwaun Power Station and the Planning Inspectorate.
Please see attached meeting note.

13 June 2013
Chris Gridham