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From
Dalton Warner Davis LLP
Date advice given
13 June 2014
Enquiry type
Email

  1. Is if necessary for each application document to have a summary? Advice Note 6 suggests this is the case. However, we have a number of descriptive documents (e.g. site description and proposed development description) where a summary would not be particularly useful to the reader, while we have others that are very short documents (e.g. Consents and Licences required under Other Legislation).

  2. Advice Note 6 refers to documents having a font size of 12. While we have followed this for most documents we have adopted a smaller font for very large documents (10 or 11) such as the Consultation Report and the ES. I previously discussed this with Susannah Guest who confirmed that this would not be an issue provided the documents were still legible. I would be grateful if you could confirm that the use of a 10 or 11 font size is acceptable.

Advice given

I have set out answers to your two queries below:

Q1: Is it necessary for each application document to have a summary?

A: PINS do not require a summary for every application document submitted. Summaries are expected for larger documents however, you should make your own judgement when preparing the application documents, as a summary for smaller documents may not be useful to the reader.

Q2: Could you confirm that the use of a 10 or 11 font size is acceptable.

A: Ideally, the application documents should be drafted using the same size font throughout the suite; font size 12. However, font size 10 or 11 is acceptable, as previously advised by Susannah Guest, for larger documents. Most importantly all the documents must be legible.