Advice to Equality and Human Rights Commission
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- Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Date advice given
- 27 January 2015
- Enquiry type
Thank you for your email regarding the examination and timetable procedure for the application by Roxhill (Kegworth) Ltd for an Order Granting Development Consent for the East Midlands Gateway Rail Freight Interchange, for which I am writing to acknowledge receipt. The Commission receives many requests for our views on, and notices about, planning issues. We do not have the resources to respond to all, and it is not our practice to respond to consultations on major infrastructure projects. Therefore, we would request you do not send us further information on this project, unless there is a clear and specific equality and human rights concern you wish to raise (for example, impact on minority communities such as BME groups, or on accessibility for disabled people), to which we can add value.
Advice given
Thank you for your correspondence, below.
As you will be aware, the Planning Inspectorate has a legal duty to consult all statutory parties that are identified as potentially having an interest in a nationally significant infrastructure project. For each project that EHRC are identified in relation to, you should only automatically receive two pieces of correspondence; an invitation to the Preliminary Meeting, and confirmation of the finalised examination timetable.
If you do not wish to participate in the examination of a project that you have received these initial correspondences in relation to, then you do not need to respond to ?opt out? for each project. If you do wish to participate in the examination of a particular project, you should actively respond by the appropriate deadline set out in the examination timetable, confirming you wish to become an interested party. Statutory parties also have a unique right to request interested party status at any point during the examination of an application.