| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Planning Committee & Planning Inspectorate Advice. | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 29/10/15 09:08:00 |
| To give some brief advice, whilst an appellant can request the procedure by which an appeal will be heard, the ultimate decision as to the appeal procedure rests with the Inspectorate. Furthermore, cases involving minor householder extensions are extremely unlikely to be heard by way of the hearing procedure John describes, particularly whereas afew years back it was reasonably common for the Inspector to grant the appellant the appeal procedure they'd requested, nowadays the Inspector will, whenever possible, lean towards the simplest written representations procedure. Annex K of the guide sets out the criteria which is used to determine the most appropriate appeal procedure, and with a minor residential extension type appeal I would always work on the presumption that it would proceed by written reps. And working on that presumption is increasingly important nowadays given that whereas previously to appeal you essentially only had to provide a brief summary of your reasons for appeal and the 'body' of your argument would follow at a later date, now you have to set out your full/detailed grounds of appeal when you lodge that appeal, i.e. the appeal procedure is far more frontloaded now. |