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Advice to Mark Parish Council

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From
Mark Parish Council
Date advice given
8 January 2013
Enquiry type
Email

Proposed Hinkley to Seabank Electricty Connection. E-mail received from Mark Parish Council regarding the applicant's pre-application consultation.

Advice given

We appreciate being kept informed regarding Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. Your letter is useful for us to monitor emerging issues in response to pre-application proposals. As you will be aware, however, the Planning Inspectorate can accept this letter for information purposes only at this stage as the applicant is your first point of contact until the application is formally submitted. We therefore encourage you to respond to the applicant?s consultation as this is the best approach to influence a project, whether you agree with it, disagree with it, or believe it could be improved.

Once the application has been formally submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, a decision must be made within 28 days as to whether or not the application can be accepted for examination (section 55 of the Planning Act 2008 as amended). Part of this assessment will consider whether the applicant has adequately complied with their duty to have taken account of any relevant responses received from persons they are required to consult under s42, 44 and 47 of the Planning Act 2008 (as amended), which includes certain local authorities and statutory bodies, persons with interest in the land and members of the public.

Please view the following Advice Notes for further information:

8.1 How the process works

http://infrastructure.planningportal.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Advice-note-8.1v4.pdf

8.2 Responding to the developer?s pre-application consultation:

http://infrastructure.planningportal.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Advice-note-8.2.pdf