- 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 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 in relation to— (a) 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;
- questionnaire
means a document in the form supplied by the Secretary of State to local planning authorities for the purpose of proceedings under these Rules;
- referred application
means an application of any description mentioned in rule 3(1) which is referred to the Secretary of State for determination;
- relevant notice
means the Secretary of State’s written notice informing the applicant and the local planning authority that an inquiry is to be held;
- report
includes any assessor’s report appended to the inspector’s report but does not include any other documents so appended;
- starting date
means the date of the— (a) Secretary of State’s written notice to the applicant and the local planning authority that he has received all the documents required to enable him to entertain the application or appeal;
- 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;
- statement of common ground
means a written statement prepared jointly by the local planning authority and the applicant, which contains agreed factual information about the proposal, which is the subject of the application or appeal;
- statutory party
means— (a) a person mentioned in paragraph (1)(b)(i) of article 19 of the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 whose representations 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 1992 Rules
means the Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1992;
- 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 Mayor
means the Mayor of London.
- the Planning Act
means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;