The Town and Country Planning Appeals (Determination by Inspectors) (Inquiries Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2003

Written statements of evidence

14.—(1) Any person entitled to take part in an inquiry who proposes to give, or to call another person to give, evidence at the inquiry by reading a written statement must—

(a) send 2 copies, in the case of the local planning authority and the appellant, or 3 copies in the case of any other person, of the statement together with a written summary, to the National Assembly; and

(b) simultaneously send one copy of those documents to any statutory party,

and the National Assembly must, as soon as practicable after receipt, send a copy of each written statement of evidence together with any summary to the local planning authority and the appellant.

(2) No written summary is required where the statement of evidence proposed to be read contains no more than 1500 words.

(3) The statement of evidence and any summary must be received by the National Assembly no later than—

(a) 4 weeks before the date fixed for the holding of the inquiry; or

(b) where a timetable has been arranged pursuant to rule 8 which specifies a date by which the statement of evidence and any summary must be received by the National Assembly, that date.

(4) The National Assembly must send to the inspector, as soon as practicable after receipt, any statement of evidence together with any summary sent to it in accordance with this rule and received by it within the relevant period, if any, specified in this rule.

(5) Where a written summary is provided in accordance with paragraph (1), only that summary is to be read at the inquiry, unless the inspector permits or requires otherwise.

(6) Any person required by this rule to send copies of a statement of evidence to the inspector must send with them the same number of copies of the whole, or the relevant part, of any document referred to in the statement, unless a copy of the document or part of the document in question is already available for inspection pursuant to rule 6(13).

(7) The local planning authority must afford to any person who so requests a reasonable opportunity to inspect and, where practicable, take copies of any document sent to or by it in accordance with this rule.