PART 8Inquiries
Pre-inquiry meetings31.
(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.