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Advice to Mr Aldridge Luton Borough Council

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Enquiry

From
Mr Aldridge Luton Borough Council
Date advice given
12 October 2012
Enquiry type
Phone

Telephone conversation on 11 October 2012 regarding the continuous need for the application documents to be made available at the local deposit document venues for the proposed M1 Junction 10a Grade Separation Scheme in Luton.

Advice given

We can confirm that other than where required, i.e. in accordance with Regulation 8(g) and (h) of the Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedures) Regulations 2009) which you met), there is no legal requirement for you as the applicant to make the application documents available throughout the whole of the examination process. However, in the interests of good customer service and ensuring all parties have an opportunity to easily access the documents, we would strongly recommend you continue to make the application documents publicly available to at least, one of the venues listed in your section 56 notice.

We appreciate that it is somewhat difficult to maintain such documents where they may have been taken by a member of the public and not returned however as there is no legal requirement for you to place them on deposit, there is subsequently no legal requirement for you to regularly make visits to the venues and maintain them. Therefore, it may be more manageable if you replace documents as and when/if you are notified of them being missing.

During our conversation, you indicated you would remove Stockwood Park Golf Centre and Luton Borough Council offices from the list of venues but will continue to make these documents available for public inspection at Harpenden Library, Luton Central Library and Wigmore Library.

In addition to the application documents, we will also be placing written representations and any other project documents as necessary at the three venues above and will give notice of this when issuing details of the preliminary meeting in accordance with Rule 6 of the Infrastructure Planning (Examination Procedure) Rules 2010.