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Advice to RWE Npower

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Enquiry

From
RWE Npower
Date advice given
28 June 2012
Enquiry type
Email

we are planning our Stage 2 consultations to start in mid July and wish to confirm the requirements of S46.

We served our initial S46 notification on the 7th of July 2010, in advance of our Stage 1 consultation and followed up with a second letter on the 9th containing hard copies and CDs of all the Stage 1 consultation material (attached).

I intend to submit an updated version of the 09/07/10 letter, detailing the material that is being consulted upon in Stage 2 and providing copies of the material and a CD of electronic versions. We will be complying with the advertising requirements of Regulation 4 in advance of this consultation and I will also include copies of the adverts.

Can you please confirm that this will comply with the requirements of S46 (1)?

Advice given

S46 (2) of the Planning Act 2008 (as amended by the Localism Act 2011) states: "the applicant must comply with subsection (1) on or before commencing consultation under section 42." S46 does not include any requirement to repeat s46 where further phases of s42 consultation are being undertaken.

It would be helpful to the Planning Inspectorate if RWE Npower could send a copy of the documents that they are consulting on under a further iteration of s42 to PINS on a 'for information basis'.