Advice to Helen Adcock
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- Helen Adcock
- Date advice given
- 7 May 2014
- Enquiry type
A member of the public enquired as to why their representation submitted to Norfolk County Council at pre-application by her parents was not published on the planning portal website.
The Planning Inspectorate's response was by email.
Advice given
Thank you for your correspondence with attachments received on 28 April 2014, on behalf of your parents, in relation to the Norwich NDR application.
Having looked at the reasons why the material sent by your parents has not been published on the National Infrastructure pages of the Planning Portal website, this is because the attached comments dated 27 August 2013 were addressed to the applicant Norfolk County Council in what appears to be a response to their pre-application consultation. As such, it would not be published on our website. The Planning Inspectorate has, however, published ?relevant representations? made by persons wishing to become Interested Parties, and these can be found on the project page at the National Infrastructure pages of the Planning Portal website:
http://infrastructure.planningportal.gov.uk/projects/eastern/norwich-northern-distributor-road-ndr/
The 2008 Act, and Regulations made under it, set out a number of straightforward matters that a representation must contain before it can be treated as a ?relevant representation? giving you an entitlement to become an interested party: it also includes a summary of whether the person agrees or disagrees with the proposal, the main issues and their impact. A relevant representation is defined in section 102(4) of the Planning Act 2008 (as amended) and is ?relevant? if it is in accordance with regulation 4 of the Infrastructure Planning (Interested Parties) Regulations 2010. These valid representations were submitted on a fully completed Planning Inspectorate Registration and Relevant Representation form, and received by the Planning Inspectorate within the registration period that ran from 14 February 2014 to 23 March 2014 for this application. In these circumstances, your attached comments are not considered to be a relevant representation.
Following the close of the registration period, we are no longer able to register persons as ?interested parties? for the purposes of this application. The fact that you have been unable to register your interest in time is not in any way meant to suggest that you are not interested in this application. We are not able to extend the deadline and have no statutory powers that would enable us to do so. However, we will keep your request on file and make your parents names available to the Examining Authority who is able to exercise discretion to consider views and evidence from those who did not register a relevant representation on time. However, this does not mean that you would be regarded as an ?interested party? for the purposes of the examination.
Please do not hesitate to contact this office should you have any further questions.