Article 7 Inspector’s power to hold pre-inquiry meetings

An inspector may hold a pre-inquiry meeting where he considers it desirable (whether or not one was held pursuant to rule 5(1)), and shall arrange for not less than 14 days' written notice of any such meeting to be given to the applicant, the relevant planning authority, any person known at the date of the notice to be a person entitled to appear at the inquiry and any other person whose presence at the meeting appears to him to be desirable; and rule 5(9) shall apply to a pre-inquiry meeting held in accordance with this rule.