Concurrent inquiries
7.—(1) Where the Scottish Ministers cause the following inquiries to be held, namely–
(a)a public local inquiry under section 9(1) of the Act for the purposes of a section 4 application or, as the case may require, a section 6 proposal; and
(b)a local inquiry into an application for–
(i)listed building consent or conservation area consent made in connection with that section 4 application or, as the case may require, section 6 proposal; or
(ii)scheduled monument consent made in connection with that section 4 application,
such inquiries shall be held concurrently unless the Scottish Ministers consider it inappropriate to do so and have given a direction to that effect.
(2) Where any inquiries are held concurrently pursuant to paragraph (1), any rules applying in relation to the inquiry which is held pursuant to section 9 of the Act shall apply also in relation to the other inquiry.