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Advice to Sedgemoor District Council

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Enquiry

From
Sedgemoor District Council
Date advice given
20 October 2011
Enquiry type
Phone

The Council would like to have a full copy of the application at the same time as it is submitted to the IPC, to enable it to make an adequacy statement.

What would happen if the Council was not able to make a decison about the adequacy of consultation?

Advice given

The IPC has no power to require an applicant to submit a full copy of the application to another party. The IPC encourages developers to share documents with local authorities as early as possible. The IPC will make a copy of the Consultation Report, submitted as part of the application, available to local authorities at submission to assist their preparation of their adequacy statements.

Local authorities are not required by the Planning Act 2008 to submit an adequacy statement. If a local authority was not able to submit an adequacy of consultation statement, or were not able to make a decision in this regard, then the appointed acceptance commissioner(s) would make a decision based on the information before them.