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Hinkley Point C Connection Examination timetable
The examination timetable shows the dates of events and deadlines for submissions.
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The examination stage
The examination opened on 19 January 2015
The examination closed on 19 July 2015
25 September 2014 - Site Visit (Unaccompanied)
ClosedUnaccompanied site inspections taking place in the pre examination period
19 January 2015 - Preliminary Meeting
ClosedPreliminary Meeting
29 January 2015 - Deadline 1
ClosedIssue by ExA of: • Examination timetable • ExA’s first written questions
4 February 2015 - Deadline 2
ClosedDEADLINE 1 Deadline for receipt by the ExA of: • Notification of wish by an Interested Party to be heard at an open floor hearing • Notification from Statutory Parties, or a local authority without direct responsibility in the proposed development area, of a wish to be considered an Interested Party
13 February 2015 - Deadline 3
ClosedIssue by the ExA of: • Notification of date, time and place of the open floor hearings
26 February 2015 - Deadline 4
ClosedDEADLINE 2
Deadline for receipt by the ExA of:
• Comments on relevant representations (RRs)
• Summaries of all RRs exceeding 1,500 words
• Written representations (WRs) by all Interested Parties
• Summaries of all WRs exceeding 1,500 words
• Local Impact Report (LIR) from any local authorities
• Statements of Common Ground requested by ExA
• Comments on the Applicant’s updated and new documents submitted on 22 January 2015
• Responses to ExA’s first written questions
• Applicant’s updated HRA Matrices
• Any other updated documents from Interested Parties (including corrections and omissions from the Applicant)
• Notification by an affected person of wish to be heard at a compulsory acquisition hearing
• Revised draft Development Consent Order (DCO) from Applicant
• Draft s106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) (s106) and other agreements
• Submission of the Annex requested by the Panel bringing together all mitigation needs
• Submission of the schedule and information requested by the Panel in relation to Crown Land and interests including how the Applicant intends to comply with s135 PA 2008
• Submission of the schedules and information requested by the Panel in relation to statutory undertakers’ land and special category land and extinguishment of rights and removal of apparatus of statutory undertakers etc including how the Applicant intends to satisfy sections 127, 132 and 138 PA 2008
• Notification of wish to be heard at the issue specific hearings
• Submissions on ExA’s site inspection locations suggested in the Rule 8 letter, including nominations for additional locations to be inspected during site inspections and the features to be observed there, with reasons for each nomination
• Submissions on the significance of the impacts of the Applicant’s Revised Construction Programme put forward in the ESST documents dated 1 October 2014 and whether it amounts to a change to the application and, if so, whether it can still be considered under the existing application
12 March 2015 - Deadline 5
Closed• The ExA’s decision on whether the Applicant’s Revised Construction Programme put forward in the ESST documents dated 1 October 2014 will be accepted will be notified to Interested Parties
Issue by the ExA of: • Notification of the date, time and place of the accompanied site inspections • Notification of the date, time and place of the issue specific hearings • Notification of the date, time and place of the compulsory acquisition hearings (including statutory undertaker and special category land)
17 March 2015 - Open Floor Hearing 1
ClosedMorning open floor hearing session in Weston-super-Mare, to finish no later than 1.30 pm
17 March 2015 - Open Floor Hearing 2
ClosedEvening open floor hearing session in Mark, to finish no later than 10.00 pm
18 March 2015 - Open Floor Hearing 3
ClosedAfternoon open floor hearing session in Nailsea, to finish no later than 4.30 pm
18 March 2015 - Open Floor Hearing 4
ClosedEvening open floor hearing session in Nailsea, to finish no later than 10.00 pm
25 March 2015 - Deadline 6
ClosedDEADLINE 3
Deadline for receipt by the ExA of:
• Updates of information submitted at Deadline 2
• Report compiled from responses to the Applicant’s notification of the Revised Construction Programme put forward in the ESST documents dated 1 October 2014
• Comments on the submissions made at Deadline 2 insofar as they relate to the merits of the Revised Construction Programme put forward in the ESST documents dated 1 October 2014
• Comments on WRs
• Responses to comments on RRs
• Comments on LIRs
• Comments on responses to ExA’s first written questions
• Comments on Applicant’s updated HRA matrices to inform the RIES
• Comments on Applicant’s revised draft Development Consent Order (DCO)
• Comments on any other updated documents from Interested Parties (including corrections and omissions from the Applicant) submitted for Deadline 2
• Comments on any other additional documents and information submitted for Deadline 2
• Comments on any submissions in relation to Crown Land and compliance with s135 PA 2008
• Comments on any submissions in relation to Statutory Undertakers’ land and extinguishment of rights, and removal of apparatus, of Statutory Undertakers etc. and special category land and compliance with ss127, 132 and 138 PA 2008
• Written summaries of the cases put orally at any open floor hearings held on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 March 2015
8 April 2015 - Site Visit (Accompanied) 1
ClosedAccompanied Site Inspection of T-pylons at National Grid's Academy at Eakring
14 April 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 1
ClosedIssue Specific Hearing on the draft Development Consent Order and other agreements needed to secure mitigation
15 April 2015 - Site Visit (Accompanied) 2
ClosedAccompanied site inspection of proposed route alignment 15 -17 April 2015
21 April 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 2
ClosedIssue specific hearing relating to Heritage and Historic Environment
22 April 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 3
ClosedIssue specific hearing relating to Landscape and Visual, including arboricultural matters
23 April 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 4
ClosedIssue specific hearing for means of securing mitigation and/or enhancement for impacts on heritage and historic environment and landscape and visual
28 April 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 5
ClosedIssue specific hearing for Highways and Transport
29 April 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 6
ClosedIssue specific hearing relating to Air Quality, Noise, Ground Conditions, Water Quality and Pollution Prevention and Flood Risk
30 April 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 7
ClosedIssue specific hearing relating to Health, Wellbeing and Electric and Magnetic Fields, and Socio-Economic
1 May 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 8
ClosedIssue specific hearing relating to Biodiversity and Habitat Regulations Assessment
6 May 2015 - Deadline 7
ClosedDEADLINE 4 Deadline for receipt by the ExA of: • Written summaries of cases put orally at the hearings held on and between Tuesday 14 April and Friday 1 May 2015 • Applicant’s revised draft DCO • Applicant’s revised s106 and other agreements • Comments on report compiled from responses to the Applicant’s notification of the Revised Construction Programme put forward in the ESST documents dated 1 October 2014 • Report compiled from responses to the Applicant's notification of the realignment of the route of the proposed overhead line at Kings Weston Lane, Avonmouth ("the Wessex Water Realignment") • Submissions on the change to the application as set out in the Wessex Water Realignment documentation
13 May 2015 - Deadline 8
ClosedIssue by ExA of: • Second written questions • Issue of final notification by the ExA of date, time and place (in the event that the ExA decides that during the progress of the examination they are needed) for any other open floor, issue specific or compulsory acquisition hearings
19 May 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 9
ClosedIssue specific hearing relating to Avonmouth Severnside Enterprise Area and Bristol Port
20 May 2015 - Compulsory Acquisition Hearing
ClosedCompulsory acquisition hearing (including statutory undertaker and special category land)
22 May 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 10
ClosedIssue specific hearing relating to Portbury/Portishead Optional connection alignments
4 June 2015 - Deadline 9
ClosedDEADLINE 5 Deadline for receipt by the ExA of: • Responses to ExA’s second written questions (if required) • Comments on the Applicant’s revised draft DCO • Written summaries of cases put orally at the hearings held on and between Tuesday 19 May and Friday 22 May 2015 • Any written confirmation required from the Crown in relation to s135 PA 2008 providing documentary confirmation that no interests are engaged and/or the Crown authority consents
15 June 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 11
ClosedResumption of the issue specific hearing in relation to the Portbury/Portishead optional connection alignments
16 June 2015 - Issue Specific Hearing 12
ClosedIssue specific hearing on the draft DCO and other related matters, including section 106 and other agreements, plans, strategies and schemes needed to secure mitigation
18 June 2015 - Deadline 10
ClosedDEADLINE 6 Deadline for receipt by the ExA of: • Written summaries of cases put orally at any hearings held on and between Monday 15 June and Wednesday 17 June 2015 • Updated draft DCO in the final form the Applicant wishes it to be made • Completed agreements made under s106 and any other agreements or programmes to be taken into account by the ExA and Secretary of State in their final agreed form • Updated Statements of Common Ground
24 June 2015 - Deadline 11
ClosedPublication by the ExA of: • A Report on the Implications for European Sites (RIES) for consultation • Updated draft DCO in the final form the Applicant wishes it to be made • Updated s106 and other agreements in their final agreed form
Issue by the ExA of: • Any requests for further information by the ExA including requests for comments on the published documentation
13 July 2015 - Deadline 12
ClosedDEADLINE 7 Deadline for receipt of: • Comments on responses to ExA’s second written questions • Responses to the RIES consultation • Any further information as requested at Item 24 • Final comments from interested parties or statutory parties on the updated draft DCO in the final form the Applicant wishes it to be made • Comments on completed s106 and any other agreements or programmes to be taken into account by the ExA and Secretary of State • Report compiled from responses to the Applicant's notification of the proposal to amend the application by increasing the height of the 400kV lattice pylons LD109 to LD113 in Avonmouth, Bristol in order to achieve a 20.7m clearance • Any final written submission by any interested party or statutory party
17 July 2015 - Deadline 13
ClosedDEADLINE 8 Deadline for receipt of: • Any comments on the Applicant’s proposals, including plans, to secure appropriate construction mitigation measures at St Anthony’s Park residential settlement, Avonmouth; • Any comments on the Applicant’s proposals to secure appropriate mitigation measures during dismantling of the 132kV line at Avonmouth Village; • Any comments on the Applicant’s explanation of the inclusion in Document 8.21.8 of an assumption that 20% of the stone required for the development would be provided by quarries in the Cheddar area based on assumptions made in the EDF Energy Hinkley Point C Transport Assessment Appendix 3.7 Freight Management Strategy Oct 2011; • Any comments on the Applicant’s verification of the basis of the assessments and calculations made in Document 8.27.5 ‘Portbury/Portishead Matters Note providing information on piling works in Bristol Port’; • Any comments on the proposed protective provisions (if any) submitted at Deadline 7 by RWE Generation UK (RWE).