Advice to Ben Wallace
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- Ben Wallace
- Date advice given
- 7 January 2014
- Enquiry type
- Phone
Phone call regarding letters submitted to the applicant at the relevant representation stage
Advice given
Please see the summary of points we discussed over the phone today.
In terms of our discussion about the letters that you have received from various parties at the relevant representation period, please note that those people should have been contacted and advised during the relevant representation period to make their representation on the prescribed form to the Planning Inspectorate as per your 56 Notice that was published in the papers.
Unfortunately, as the relevant representation period has now been closed these letters cannot be accepted by the Inspectorate as a relevant representation. I suggest you reply to those persons to explain that procedure. You might wish to also advise them that letters that were sent to you can be resent to the Inspectorate but it will be at the discretion of the Examining authority (once appointed) to exercise its powers to decide whether to accept their submission. Please also advise those parties that all submissions from now own should be made to the Planning Inspectorate within deadlines that will be specified by the ExA in their procedural letters.
In addition to the above, please note that if the letter was received from members of public but it wasn?t made to us on prescribed form, that person will not have another opportunity to become an Interested Party 'IP'. If the person however is a statutory consultee who did not make a relevant representation, they will be invited again to notify the ExA if they wish to participate in the examination. This invitation will be included in the ExA's procedural letter. Moreover, section 44 persons and relevant local authorities are automatically interested parties for the whole process.
Please note that once the certificates of compliance are received, the Secretary of State 'SoS' will appoint the ExA who will decide on how the application should be examined. As discussed relevant representations will be published following the receipt of certificates. The certificates must be submitted by the applicant within 10 working days that starts from the day following the deadline for receipt of relevant representations.