The Highways (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1994

means a person appointed by the Secretary of State to sit with an inspector at an inquiry or reopened inquiry to advise the inspector in such matters arising as the Secretary of State may specify;

includes a photograph, map or plan;

means any works for the construction, improvement or alteration of a highway, or for the provision of means of access to premises or the diversion of a navigable watercourse in connection with the construction, improvement or alteration of a highway, and “the highway works”, in relation to an order or scheme, means the highway works authorised by that order or scheme;

has the same meaning as in the Act;

means a local inquiry in relation to which these Rules apply;

means a person appointed by the Secretary of State to hold an inquiry or a reopened inquiry;

means a county council, the Council of a district or London Borough or the Common Council of the City of London;

has the same meaning as in the Act;

means in relation to a person a written statement of the principal submissions which that person proposes to put forward at an inquiry;

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;

means the date of the Secretary of State’s written notice to the promoting authority (if applicable) and the statutory objectors of his intention to cause an inquiry to be held, and “relevant notice” means that notice;

means that notice;

includes any assessor’s report appended to the inspector’s report but does not include any other documents so appended;

means the site of any of the highway works authorised by the order or scheme or the site of any highway to which the order or scheme relates;

means 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;

means any objector mentioned below whose objection has not been withdrawn or disregarded under paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to the Act — (a) any body or person mentioned in the Table to paragraph 3 or in paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to the Act;

means the Highways Act 1980;

means, in relation to an inquiry, the order or scheme in connection with which the inquiry is held or, where an inquiry is held in connection with more than one order or scheme, all the orders and schemes;