Advice to Karen Potter
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- From
- Karen Potter
- Date advice given
- 12 April 2012
- Enquiry type
- Post
See attached letter.
Advice given
This proposal is currently at the pre-application stage. As you are aware the Highways Agency is currently consulting with local communities and prescribed consultees on their proposal in accordance with the duties which the Planning Act 2008 places upon them. At this stage, I would suggest that responding to this consultation is the most appropriate action because the Highways Agency will be under a duty to take account of relevant responses. Their project website can be accessed via the following link:
http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/14909.aspx Please note that the Highways Agency consultation closes on 16 April 2012.
As your letter raises concerns with the consultation being carried out you may also wish to send a copy of your correspondence to the relevant local authority. When an application is submitted to The Planning Inspectorate, a decision will be made, within 28 days, as to whether the application will progress to the examination stage. During this stage the local authority consultees will be invited to provide their comments on the adequacy of the developer?s consultation.
If the application is accepted for examination, there will be the opportunity to register your views with The Planning Inspectorate and participate in the examination by completing a relevant representation form. Details about how and when to register will be publicised by the developer. Please note that you are unable to register as an interested party during the current (pre-application) stage of the process for this proposal.
Further information about how to participate in the application process can be found in our advice notes. I have enclosed ?Advice Note 8.1: How the process works? and ?Advice Note 8.2: Responding to the developers pre-application consultation? as they may be of particular interest.