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Advice to Claire Teasdale (Durham County Council)

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From
Claire Teasdale (Durham County Council)
Date advice given
18 October 2013
Enquiry type
Email

Email regarding applicant's adequacy consultation.

Advice given

I am writing with regards to your response in relation to above project.

Please note that under Regulation 5(5) of the Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009; the Inspectorate on behalf of the Secretary of State has a power to request original responses from the applicant received by the applicant during its pre-application consultation under s42., s.47 and s.48 of the Planning Act 2008 (as amended).

The Inspectorate made such a request and the original responses to the applicant's consultation were submitted to us on 4 October 2013.

The Secretary of State has a 28 day period to decide whether to accept the application for the examination. Before making its decision, the Secretary of State invites all identified relevant local authorities to comment on the applicant's adequacy of consultation.

I would like to therefore confirm that following your response, I identified in the applicant's original responses received during the applicant's pre-application consultation that a response was received from Leo Oliver on behalf of Durham County Council dated 23 April 2013 stating:

'Following receipt of your letter of consultation under s.42 of the PA 2008 (dated 20 March 2013) on the Knottingley Combined Gas Turbine Power Station, Durham County Council as strategic planning authority have no detailed comments to make?.

Having the above evidence, we therefore understand that Durham County Council was aware of the applicant's consultation in relation to above application.

Please note that under s43 of the PA2008, Durham County Council has been identified as a 'D' local authority, who share their boundary with the boundary of the local authority in which the proposed development is to be situated.

I hope the is information is helpful .

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions about above.

Kind Regards