Advice to Andy Yeomans
Back to listEnquiry
- From
- Andy Yeomans
- Date advice given
- 13 January 2015
- Enquiry type
The Planning Inspectorate gave advice to interested party regarding examination events.
Advice given
I am sorry to hear that you may not be able to attend the hearing on 4 February 2014. As you may be aware, the Preliminary Meeting to discuss draft timetable for examination of the application took place yesterday. At that meeting, all interested parties were invited to provide the ExA with their thoughts and comments with regard to dates, timing and location for the proposed hearings and deadlines set in the draft timetable, in writing and/or at the Meeting itself.
We understand that holding hearings on weekdays will often require participants to make arrangements to attend and this is why the hearing dates are notified at least 21 days in advance. The hearings usually take place during the working week because often technical consultees from other organisations need to attend and indeed members of the public also wish to hear from them. Unfortunately it?s not possible to produce an examination timetable that will please everyone; we are grateful to interested parties who take the time to contribute to the process and we try to accommodate as many interested parties as possible, so they can put forward their views in the most convenient and appropriate way. With that in mind, please be assured that this is primarily a written process and hearings are supplemental to the written material put before the Examining Authority.
The Examining Authority will shortly issue the final timetable for examination having regard to other comments received at above meeting and in writing. The final timetable will set out dates of future hearings, site visits and deadlines for written submissions. For instance, the timetable will also set out the date of any open floor hearing (?OFH?) that takes place.
The purpose of the hearing on 4 February 2015 is to discuss technical requirements contained in the draft Development Consent Order (?DCO?) submitted by the applicant. If you are not able to attend then you are welcome to submit the points you wanted to make at the hearing in writing by the corresponding deadline in the examination timetable. You will be able to listen to an audio recording of any hearings you are not able to attend. These will be published on the project web page as soon as practicable after the hearing.
I hope this information is helpful and please contact us should you have any questions.