- 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 under Schedule 6 to the Planning Act or, as the case may be, Schedule 3 to the Listed Buildings Act to determine an appeal;
- 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 the body who were responsible for dealing with the application occasioning the appeal;
- 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;
- relevant notice
means the Secretary of State’s written notice informing the appellant and the local planning authority that an inquiry is to be held;
- starting date
means the date of the— (a) Secretary of State’s written notice to the appellant and the local planning authority that he has received all the documents required to enable him to entertain the 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 appellant and which contains agreed factual information about the proposal which is the subject of the 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 inspector is required by paragraph (3) of that article to take into account in determining the appeal to which an inquiry relates, and such a person whose representations the local planning authority were required by paragraph (1) of that article to take into account in determining the application occasioning the appeal;
- the 1992 Rules
means the Town and Country Planning Appeals (Determination by Inspectors) (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;