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Advice to Stephan Calloway

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Enquiry

From
Stephan Calloway
Date advice given
31 January 2013
Enquiry type
Phone

The Planning Inspectorate received a telephone enquiry in regard to the submission of application documents as required by the Planning Act 2008 (as amended by the Localism Act 2011) and secondary legislation.

Our advice was by telephone.

Advice given

Thank you for your telephone enquiry today in regard to documents and information to accompany a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) application, as set out in Regulation 5(2) of The Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009.

For plans that maybe applicable to an Environmental Assessment (ES), such as, for example, identifying 5(2) (l)(i) ‘any statutory/non-statutory sites/features of nature conservation’ or (m) ‘any statutory/non-statutory sites or features of the historic environment’, an applicant could choose to include such plans as part of their ES, ensuring to cross-reference these plans and their purpose within this application document.

Applicants should seek their own legal and specialist advice in regard to submitting applications and complying with the requirements of the Planning Act 2008 (as amended by the Localism Act 2011), secondary legislation and statutory guidance. For reference, you may find useful ‘The Planning Act 2008 Section 55 Acceptance of Applications’ checklist for the ‘North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement Project’, a recently accepted NSIP application, to see how the applicant complied with the regulations, as well as the relevant appendices of the applicant’s ES to see how they presented such information. You may also find useful, the Planning Inspectorate’s non-statutory Advice Notes for further information, such as Advice Note Six: Preparation and submission of application documents and Advice Note Ten: Habitat Regulations Assessment, in addition to DCLG’s statutory ‘Planning Act 2008: nationally significant infrastructure projects: application form guidance’.