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Advice to Mr Smith Hertsmere Borough Council

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From
Mr Smith Hertsmere Borough Council
Date advice given
6 February 2013
Enquiry type
Email

Email from Hertsmere Borough Council asking who decided that Hertsmere was one of the ?A? authorities and where this decision can be amended to reduce this status?

Advice given

The following advice was provided:

The applicant provides with their Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project application, a GIS Shape File which denotes the redline boundary for the proposed scheme. This is then interpreted by the Planning Inspectorate, who lists all the prescribed persons the Examining authority would need to communicate with in regard to the application and timetable for examination.

Hertsmere Borough Council was identified as a local authority under section 88A of the Planning Act 2008 (as amended by the localism Act 2011) for this application because it shares a border with a local authority (Enfield Council) in which the development is proposed. As Hertsmere Borough Council has been identified in accordance with section 88A, the Planning Act 2008 states that the Examining authority must invite your authority to the Preliminary Meeting (section 88(3)(d)) and must inform your authority of the examination timetable after the meeting.

It is for all invitees to choose whether to attend the Preliminary Meeting or not, or request to become an ?interested party? following the Rule 8 letter that will include the examination timetable. This letter is sent to all prescribed persons following the Preliminary Meeting.

If you prefer not to be involved in this application, you do not need to take any further action. You should only receive 2 further letters (which the Planning Act 2008 states that the Examining authority must send to you) ? an invite to a rescheduled Preliminary Meeting (Rule 6), and a letter containing procedural decisions made at the Preliminary Meeting by the Examining authority as well as the examination timetable (Rule 8). If you do not then request to become an ?interested party?, you will not receive any further communications.