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From
Bill Hoodless
Date advice given
12 March 2015
Enquiry type
Email

I should be grateful if you will respond to the following process query concerning the review of the noise issue by ExA.

All the evidence so far presented has been on the basis of the ETSU Simplified Procedure as normally used for wind farm applications.

It now appears the the Applicant wants at some future time to put in hand a different method for establishing the noise nuisance. This method is known as the ETSU Standard Procedure. For all sorts of reasons this would be very problematical and unsatisfactory.

Since it would be carried out after the close of the Examination, it would be completely unacceptable. There would be no chance for IPs to be involved.

The matter is dealt with in more detail within today?s Representations at para. 51 et seq.

Please therefore can you confirm that the ExA will only look at the noise evidence made available to the Examination up to today?s date of closure, i.e. on the ETSU Simplified Procedure, in reaching its conclusions?

Advice given

I reiterate my reply to Mr Pointer yesterday in which I stated that any submissions or representations received after an examination has closed (during the recommendation stage) are not made available to the Examining authority and will not be taken into account within an Examining authority's report to the Secretary of State. The Planning Inspectorate will hold any representation until the end of the recommendation stage and then send it separately to the relevant Secretary of State, immediately following the submission of the Examining authority's recommendation report. It is then for the Secretary of State to decide whether or not to take further representations into consideration.