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Advice to Anita Seymour

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From
Anita Seymour
Date advice given
11 July 2011
Enquiry type
Email

Kay thank you for your letter regarding the adequacy of pre application consultation on the Ipswich Chord proposals, I wonder if you would be kind enough to give me a draft outline of the timescales for the subsequent stages should you deem to accept the applications I am keen to get approval for our response to Cabinet

Advice given

Once an application is submitted, the IPC has 28 days to decide whether or not to accept it for Examination; this is the Acceptance stage of the process. At the Acceptance stage the Local Authority is invited to submit an ?adequacy of consultation? response. This will be taken into account when deciding whether or not an applicant has complied with the pre-application consultation requirements.

During Pre-examination the public has an opportunity to register to have their say to the IPC about the accepted application. T he time for registration is limited, a minimum of 28 days will always be provided. The Pre-examination stage of the process takes approximately three months starting from the developer?s formal notification and publicity of the accepted application.

The IPC has six months to carry out the Examination stage of the process which begins the day after the Preliminary Meeting. The Local Authority at this point is invited to submit a Local Impact Report (LIR). This sets out what the local authority believes will be the likely impacts of the proposed development on its area; the deadline for submission of the LIR will be set following the Preliminary Meeting. The deadline given for the submission of the LIR following the Preliminary Meeting is likely to be short so it is therefore advised that the Local Authority starts composing its LIR before the deadline is set.

After the examination has been completed and if the relevant National Policy Statement (NPS) has been designated the IPC has three months within which to make a decision. If the relevant NPS has not been designated then the IPC will make a recommendation to the Secretary of State (SoS) who will be the decision maker. It can take up to three months to make a recommendation to the SoS and a further three months for the SoS to make a decision.

Finally, once a decision has been issued, any legal challenge must be made within six weeks. These are the current arrangements under the Planning Act 2008.