Advice to Brian Guthrie
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- Brian Guthrie
- Date advice given
- 23 April 2014
- Enquiry type
Request to become an Interested Party.
Advice given
Thank-you for your email dated 15 April 2014 relating to the Progress Power Station application ? I have the following information for you which I trust will be of use:
An application for the Progress Power Station was received by the Planning Inspectorate on 31 March 2014. The Inspectorate now has a period of up to 28 days to consider whether or not the application meets the standards required to be formally accepted for examination. The Secretary of State?s decision on whether or not to accept an application for examination is based on a number of legal criteria, including whether or not the applicant?s consultation has been adequate, when considered against the statutory tests. The decision as to whether the said application should be accepted for examination must be made by Monday 28 April 2014.
If and when the application is formally accepted by the Secretary of State the preparations and arrangements for the examination get underway ? this stage is known as the ?Pre-examination? stage and it is during this stage that you can register as an Interested Party with the Inspectorate by submitting a relevant representation. First, the Inspectorate notifies the applicant of the acceptance. The applicant is then required to publicise the fact that their application has been accepted and the arrangements for making representations about it.
The easiest way to register as an Interested Party and submit a relevant representation is by completing an online registration form on the National Infrastructure portal (www.planningportal. gov.uk/infrastructure), which has been designed to ensure that you do not miss any of the required sections. The form includes space for you to provide an initial written summary of what you agree and / or disagree with in the application, and this is known as a ?representation?. Representations should relate specifically to the project and its impacts.
Here's a link to the Progress Power project page on the Planning Portal, where you can get updates on this project's progress: http://infrastructure.planningportal.gov.uk/projects/eastern/progress-power-station/
I would recommend signing up to receive email updates about the project via the box on the right hand side of the page.
As you're thinking of registering as an interested party and making a representation on the application if it is accepted for examination, it's worth taking a look at our advice note on the subject:
http://infrastructure.planningportal.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Advice-note-8-3v4.pdf