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Enquiry

From
Fleetwood Town Council
Date advice given
2 December 2010
Enquiry type
Email

Fleetwood Town Council want to be kept informed of the underground gas storage facility proposal at Preesall Saltfield

Advice given

At the pre-application stage, it is the responsibility of the applicant to consult widely on their proposals; this includes a legal requirement to directly consult prescribed consultees. Please be advised that, for the above scheme, Fleetwood Town Council is a prescribed consultee. At the pre-application stage, the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) only consults directly with prescribed consultees as part of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) scoping. Letters relating to EIA scoping were sent by the IPC to prescribed consultees on 19 November 2010.

If an application is accepted by the IPC to progress to examination, then the applicant is required to notify all prescribed consultees of this. It is at this point that the IPC will engage directly with prescribed consultees and other interested parties. The IPC will invite all prescribed consultees to a preliminary meeting to discuss the procedure by which an application will be examined and provide them with a timetable for the examination. If the examination of the application requires open-floor, specific-issue or compulsory acquisition hearings to be held, then the IPC will invite prescribed consultees to attend (and possibly take part) in these.

The IPC is available at all stages to advise all stakeholders on the application process under the Planning Act 2008 and related legislation. Should you have any queries on process issues, please do not hesitate to contact the IPC by email, phone or in writing. Please note that we also take a note of all the advice that we give and publish this on our website at: http://infrastructure.independent.gov.uk/legislation-and-advice/register-of-advice/.

Please note that the IPC is not able to discuss the merits of any project and such matters should be directed to the applicant.