Navitus Bay Wind Park application with Planning Inspectorate

Registration for interested parties is open.

The application for development consent for the Navitus Bay Wind Park, submitted by Navitus Bay Development Ltd (the Applicant), has been accepted for examination by the Planning Inspectorate.  It is in the pre-examination stage of the application process. 

Make your views known

You can now read the application documents submitted by the Applicant and you can register with the Planning Inspectorate to become an “interested party”. The deadline for registering is 23 June 2014.

Anyone who wishes to register with the Planning Inspectorate as an interested party must complete the required sections of the Planning Inspectorate Registration and Relevant Representation form and provide a ‘relevant representation’; this is a written summary of what you agree and/or disagree with in the application. There are statutory requirements about the information that must be provided if your representation is to count as a ‘relevant representation’ entitling you to be an interested party.

After the registration period has closed, the Planning Inspectorate will publish all relevant representations on the Navitus Bay Wind Park offshore wind farm project page of the National Infrastructure Planning website.

What happens next?

Once the period for making a relevant representation has closed, the Secretary of State will appoint the ‘Examining Authority’ to examine the application.

Following this, the Planning Inspectorate will invite all interested parties to attend a Preliminary Meeting. This is chaired by the Examining Authority and is held to consider how the application will be examined. The meeting may include questions and answers about the key issues that will need to be examined, the timetable for the examination and other important organisational details. However, the merits or otherwise of the application will not be discussed at the meeting, which is purely procedural.

Following the Preliminary Meeting, the Examining Authority will issue a procedural decision including the timetable for the various stages of the examination (including the periods allowed for submission of further written evidence and any hearings the Examining Authority has decided to hold).

Following the pre-examination phase, the Planning Inspectorate has six months to carry out the examination and give careful consideration to all representations received from interested parties.

Further information about how the application process works can be found on the National Infrastructure Planning website.