Advice to Stephen Kirkwood

Enquiry

• From: Stephen Kirkwood
• Date advice given: 21 March 2011
• Enquiry type: Email

Thanks for your previous help. I think I understand most of it. One question though, I have heard about 'a Formal pre-application consultation document'.

Is there such a thing, what does it consist of and should I have had one???

Advice given

There is no requirement in legislation for applicant's to prepare a "formal pre-application consultation document" although the applicant may publish such a document as part of their consultation if they so wish. The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) does not prepare consultation documents for projects and I would therefore advise you to contact the applicant directly to gain further information about any consultation documents they may have prepared.

If you would like to comment on a proposal which is at the pre-application stage, I would advise you at this stage to contact to applicant directly. Contact details for all projects are listed on the projects page of the IPC website or you may look at the applicant’s website directly which may contain any application-related documents.

The IPC process is relatively new and it may therefore be useful to have a discussion over the telephone. If you provide me with a contact number and a convenient time, I will call you to discuss the process in further detail and answer any further questions you may have. Alternatively, myself or one of my colleagues on the helpdesk are available Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm on 0303 444 5000.