- assessor
means a person appointed by the Secretary of State to sit with an inspector at an inquiry or re-opened inquiry to advise the inspector on such matters arising as the Secretary of State may specify;
- conservation area consent
has the meaning given in section 74(1) of the Listed Buildings Act;
- development order
has the meaning given in section 59 of the Planning Act;
- document
includes a photograph, map or plan;
- inquiry
means a local inquiry in relation to which these Rules apply;
- inspector
means a person appointed by the Secretary of State to hold an inquiry or a re-opened inquiry;
- land
means the land, tree or building to which an inquiry relates;
- listed building consent
has the meaning given in section 8(7) of the Listed Buildings Act;
- local planning authority
means— (a) in relation to a referred application, the body who would otherwise have dealt with the application;
- outline statement
means a written statement of the principal submissions which a person proposes to put forward at an inquiry;
- pre-inquiry meeting
means a meeting held before an inquiry to consider what may be done with a view to securing that the inquiry is conducted efficiently and expeditiously, and where two or more such meetings are held references to the conclusion of a pre-inquiry meeting are references to the conclusion of the final meeting;
- referred application
means an application of any description mentioned in rule 3(1) which is referred to the Secretary of State for determination;
- relevant date
means the date of the Secretary of State’s written notice to the applicant and the local planning authority of his intention to cause an inquiry to be held, and “relevant notice” means that notice;
- relevant notice
means that notice;
- report
includes any assessor’s report appended to the inspector’s report but does not include any other documents so appended;
- statement of case
means, and is comprised of, a written statement which contains full particulars of the case which a person proposes to put forward at an inquiry, and a list of any documents which that person intends to refer to or put in evidence;
- statutory party
means— (a) a person mentioned in paragraph (1)(b)(i) of article 22A of the Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988 whose representa tions the Secretary of State is required by paragraph (3) of that article to take into account in determining the referred application or appeal to which an inquiry relates;
- the 1988 Rules
means the Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1988;
- the Commission
means the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England;
- the Listed Buildings Act
means the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990;
- the Planning Act
means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
- tree preservation order
has the meaning given in section 198 of the Planning Act.