The Planning Inspectorate has issued a replacement advice note 2 which sets out ‘the role of local authorities in the development consent process’.
The PINs note discourages local authorities carrying out their own consultation on forthcoming applications, so as not to confuse the consultees, and suggests developing Supplementary Planning Guidance for larger nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs).
The advice sets out when a second Statement of Community Consultation might be advisable.
Local authorities are warned that the pre-application and examination stages won’t be structured around their committee cycles and they will have to have appropriate schemes of delegation in place.
