The Developments of National Significance (Wales) Regulations 2016

Pre-inquiry meetings

31.—(1) The appointed person may hold a pre-inquiry meeting prior to an inquiry to consider what may be done with a view to securing that the inquiry is conducted efficiently and expeditiously.

(2) An appointed person must give not less than two weeks’ written notice of a pre-inquiry meeting which the appointed person proposes to hold under paragraph (1) to—

(a) the applicant;

(b) the local planning authority;

(c) any person invited by the appointed person to take part at the pre-inquiry meeting.

(3) Where a pre-inquiry meeting has been held pursuant to paragraph (1), the appointed person may hold a further pre-inquiry meeting and must arrange for such notice to be given of a further pre-inquiry meeting as appears necessary.

(4) The appointed person—

(a) is to preside at any pre-inquiry meeting;

(b) is to determine the matters to be discussed and the procedure to be followed;

(c) may require any person present at the pre-inquiry meeting who, in the appointed person’s opinion, is behaving in a disruptive manner to leave; and

(d) may refuse to permit that person to return or to attend any further pre-inquiry meeting, or

(e) may permit that person to return or attend only on such conditions as the appointed person may specify.