Advice to Lancaster City Council
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- Lancaster City Council
- Date advice given
- 30 June 2011
- Enquiry type
Cllr Marsland offered reasons for his objection to the proposed development.
Advice given
At this pre-application stage, the County as developer is responsible for handling any representations you or others may have on the proposed scheme. It is also legally required to have regard to these where they are made as part of formal consultation. The IPC has no role in considering representations during the pre-application stage and is not able to comment on the merits of the scheme.
However, once an application is then submitted to us, we have a more central role handling representations. Firstly we have 28 days in which to consider whether to accept it for examination. At this stage, we will invite Lancaster City Council as one of the statutory relevant local authorities for this proposal, to comment on the adequacy of the developer's consultation process.
Should the application be accepted for examination, there will be a period in which you can register with us as an interested party and set out the matters that you think the Commission should examine. You will then have a legal right to request an open floor hearing and be invited to a preliminary meeting where an appointed Commissioner or panel of Commissioners will consider the timetable for examination. The Council itself is automatically an interested party for the purposes of any examination.