Infrastructure Examiners Ask 866 In One Week

Today's entry reports on recent questions inspectors have asked about Planning Act applications.

Two weeks ago I reported on two 'preliminary meetings' that had happened that week, for the North Killingholme Power Station project on Humberside and for the Thames Tideway Tunnel in London.  Today's entry is concerned with the decisions taken by the panels of inspectors following those meetings, set out in the so-called Rule 8 letters for each project (after the corresponding rule number in the examination rules for Planning Act projects).  Rule 8 letters contain three main things: a confirmed timetable, any procedural decisions about examining the application, and the first round of questions for the applicant and other parties to answer.