Advice to Marine Management Organisation
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- Marine Management Organisation
- Date advice given
- 22 November 2011
- Enquiry type
I am very interested in attending the preliminary meeting for this project. Please could you advise the date, location and the maximum number of people the MMO would be permitted to bring. Ideally we would like to bring 4 or 5, however, we understand that this may not be possible.
Advice given
As a statutory consultee to the process established by the Planning Act 2008 (PA2008) the MMO are automatically an Interested Party to the examination of this application. As such, you will be invited to attend the preliminary meeting which will be arranged to consider, amongst other matters, how the application should be examined (see section 88 PA2008). This status means that you are not required to complete a relevant representation form in order to register to take part in the examination. However, if you have particular points you'd like to make we would encourage you to submit a relevant representation as it will allow the Examining authority to take these into account in its initial assessment of principal issues.
With regard to the above, I can confirm that Vattenfall have determined that the period for submitting a relevant representation will be 28 November 2011 to 6 January 2012. Once this registration period is open you will be able to complete the form via the project page of our website - http://infrastructure.independent.gov.uk/projects/south-east/kentish-flats-extension/
Please note that the regulations require statutory parties to submit their comments at the pre-examination stage by using the prescribed form during the relevant representation period.
Once the registration period has closed Vattenfall are required to certify compliance with section 56 (i.e. that they have notified people that the application has been accepted and allowed a minimum of 28 days to register as an Interested Party, as per section 58 PA2008). Once this certificate is received the Chair of the IPC will be able to appoint the Examining authority who will then make detailed arrangements for the examination, and of course prior to this, the Preliminary Meeting. Until these steps have been carried out we are unable to provide you with further details of the date and location of the meeting. We will of course write to you in due course inviting you to attend. With regard to the number of places at the meeting, we will try to accommodate your request. As a minimum I would not envisage there being any problem with a number of people attending on behalf of the MMO although you may only receive one seat at the table.