Article 27 Notification of decision

The Secretary of State shall notify his decision, and the reasons for it, in writing to the promoting authority (in a case where the promoting authority is a local highway authority), to the statutory objectors and to any other person who, having appeared at the inquiry, has asked to be notified of the decision.

Where a copy of the inspector’s report is not sent with the notification of the decision, the notification shall be accompanied by a statement of his conclusions and of any recommendations made by him; and if a person entitled to be notified of the decision has not received a copy of that report, he shall be supplied with a copy of it on written application made to the Secretary of State within 4 weeks of the date of the decision.

In this rule “report”includes any assessor’s report appended to the inspector’s report but does not include any other documents so appended; but any person who has received a copy of the report may apply to the Secretary of State in writing within 6 weeks of the date of the Secretary of State’s decision, for an opportunity of inspecting any such documents and the Secretary of State shall afford him that opportunity.