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Date advice given
9 August 2017
Enquiry type
Email

Comments regarding the Norfolk Vanguard project from the following: Sue Allen received on 14 July 2017 Wendy Englestone 19 July 2017 Peter Woodings and Paula Woodings 21 July 2017 Wendy Englestone 2 and 3 August 2017 Tina Hicks 3 August 2017 Jenny Smedley 4 August 2017 Margaret Woodall 4 August 2017

Advice given

As the project has not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate (the Inspectorate), we have no formal powers to intervene on consultees behalf. I would therefore encourage you to contact the developer directly to make your concerns heard as the Applicant has a statutory duty to take your views into account. However, if you feel your comments are not being taken into account, I would advise you to write to your local authority and set out why you think the Applicant is failing to conduct its consultation properly. Your comments should be taken into account when the local authority sends the Inspectorate its comments on whether the Applicant has fulfilled its consultation duties. The local authority’s comments on the Applicant’s consultation will be taken into account when the Acceptance Inspector makes their decision whether to accept the application for Examination.

A copy of your correspondence has been placed on our records and will be presented to the Inspector at Acceptance, together with the application documents and local authorities’ comments on the Applicant’s consultation.

After the decision has been made regarding whether to accept the application for Examination all documents used to inform the decision will be published on our website.

If the application for development consent is formally accepted you will be able to submit your views in relation to the project which will be considered by the Examining Authority during the Examination.

The Inspectorate has published a series of advice notes which explain the Examination process, including information on how to get involved; of particular interest are advice notes 8.1 to 8.5. These are available at: https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/legislation-and-advice/advice-notes/.