Skip to main content
Find a National Infrastructure Project

Beta This is a beta service - your feedback will help us to improve it

Advice to Environment Agency

Back to list

Enquiry

From
Environment Agency
Date advice given
4 March 2016
Enquiry type
Phone

Phonecall - summary below

Advice given

Mr Kipling (on behalf of the Environment Agency) raised an issue via email that he had received four separate notifications for the same Rule 17 letter. The wrong advice was given in response by PINS, that he had received these notifications because he is listed as an Interested Party, a Statutory Party and an Affected Person, as well as being signed up to receive email alerts (see s51 advice 1 March 2016). A call was made to Mr Kipling today explaining that only Interested Parties should have been informed about the Rule 17 letter, and that he had been listed twice in our list of Interested/Statutory Parties contacts in error. An apology was given to Mr Kipling for advising him incorrectly, and he was advised that steps would be taken to ensure that this would not happen again. Mr Kipling also raised the issue that other individuals within the Environment Agency had received these notifications, and that this was not necessary as he should be the sole point of contact for the Environment Agency for this project, and also that it may be helpful if notifications were issued once submissions were published, as responses to these documents were sometimes required within a short deadline. Mr Kipling was advised that these issues would also be looked into.