Date and notification of inquiry6.
(1)
The date, time and place for the holding of the inquiry session is to be fixed (and may subsequently be varied) by the appointed person.
(2)
The appointed person is to give to those persons entitled to appear at the inquiry session such notice of the date, time and place fixed for the holding of the inquiry session (and of any subsequent variation thereof) as may appear to the appointed person to be reasonable in the circumstances.
(3)
The appointed person may require the planning authority to take one or more of the following steps:—
(a)
not less than 14 days before the date fixed for the holding of the inquiry session, to publish—
(i)
in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality in which the land to which the inquiry relates is situated; and
(ii)
on a website,
such notices of the inquiry session as the appointed person may direct; or
(b)
to serve notice of the inquiry session in such form and on such persons or classes of persons as the appointed person may specify.