Pre-examination meetings
14.—(1) The local review body may hold a meeting (“a pre‑examination meeting”) to consider the manner in which the review or any stage of the review is to be conducted with a view to securing that the review or any stage of the review is conducted efficiently and expeditiously.
(2) The local review body are to determine (and may subsequently vary) the date, time and place for the holding of a pre-examination meeting.
(3) The local review body must give such notice of the holding of a pre-examination meeting and of the date, time and place where it is to be held (and any subsequent variation thereof) as may appear to the local review body to be reasonable in the circumstances—
(a)where a pre-examination meeting is to be held in connection only with the conduct of a particular hearing session, to those persons entitled to appear at that hearing session; and
(b)in any other case to the applicant, to the planning authority and any interested party.
(4) The local review body are to determine the matters to be discussed and the procedure to be followed at the pre-examination meeting.
(5) In this regulation “pre-examination meeting” has the meaning given in paragraph (1).