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Advice to Dylan Prosser

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Enquiry

From
Dylan Prosser
Date advice given
17 October 2011
Enquiry type
Post

Letter from Dr Prosser regarding his thoughts on the A556 Knutsford to Bowdon proposal enclosing a petition objecting to the northern section of the proposal near Millington.

Advice given

The following advice was given:

This proposal is currently at the pre-application stage of the process. Due to the nature of the planning regime established by the Planning Act 2008 (PA 2008), at the pre-application stage the IPC is unable to process and respond to comments on the merits of a scheme. However, during this stage the developer will be statutorily obliged to consult the local community and statutory bodies, including local authorities; the developer has yet to commence this statutory consultation for this proposal. In addition to providing your comments to the developer you may also wish to copy them to Cheshire East and Trafford Council as relevant local authorities for this proposal.

Once an application is submitted (following the pre-application stage), the IPC invites local authority consultees to submit an ?Adequacy of Consultation Representation? detailing whether the developer complied with their consultation duties in accordance with the PA 2008. We do this as part of the checks the IPC carries out to determine whether or not we can accept the application for examination. In deciding whether or not to accept an application the IPC must, amongst other matters, have regard to any adequacy of consultation representation received by it from a local authority consultee.

Once an application is submitted and if it has been accepted to go forward to examination, the public are invited to register their interest and submit a ?Relevant Representation? to the IPC with a summary of their comments. More detailed representations can then be made during the examination stage.

Further information on the process can be found on our website on the following address: www.independent.gov.uk/infrastructure.