Article 4 Notice by Secretary of State
The Secretary of State shall send the applicant and the relevant planning authority in writing—
notice that an inquiry is to be held;
notice that there will be a pre-inquiry meeting or that he has decided not to hold one under rule 9(2), as the case may be; and
a statement of the matters which, in his view, are the matters to be considered at the inquiry; and where another Minister of the Crown or a government department has expressed in writing to the Secretary of State a view that the application should not be granted either wholly or in part, or should be granted only subject to conditions, the Secretary of State shall set this out in his statement.
The Secretary of State shall send a copy of the statement described in paragraph (1)(c) to the Minister or government department concerned.
The Secretary of State may at any time modify the statement referred to in paragraph (1)(c) and if he does so shall send the modified statement to the applicant who shall publish by local advertisement a notice of the modification made.
Where the Secretary of State has modified the statement referred to in paragraph (1)(c) under paragraph (3), he shall publish a notice of the modification made on a website.