Consultation
6(1)Within 14 days of receiving an application for consent under this Schedule, the appropriate Ministers shall invite the relevant planning authority to make representations and shall not make any decisions about the application until—
(a)they have received representations from the authority about it,
(b)they have been informed by the authority that it does not wish to make any representations about it, or
(c)28 days have elapsed since the date of the invitation.
(2)An invitation under sub-paragraph (1) shall specify the time limit for making representations.
(3)For the purposes of this paragraph, the relevant planning authority is—
(a)in the case of a line in the area of a unitary authority, the local planning authority, and
(b)in the case of a line not in the area of a unitary authority, the district planning authority.