Consideration of representations: hearings
5.—(1) The circumstances in which a planning authority must hold a hearing under paragraph 11(1) of schedule 5A of the Act are that the proposed masterplan consent area scheme would authorise development belonging to the category of national developments.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph 11(1) of schedule 5A of the Act the persons who must be given an opportunity to appear before and be heard by a committee of the planning authority at a hearing under that paragraph are any person who is an interested party.
(3) In this regulation “interested party” means a person from whom the planning authority received representations before the end of the period for representations (and which were not subsequently withdrawn) in response to a notice published or sent in accordance with regulation 4 in connection with the proposed masterplan consent area scheme.