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 decision about the application until—U.K.
(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) above 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 Greater London, the local planning authority, and
(b)in the case of a line in Essex or Kent, the district planning authority.