Regulation 8 Procedure for consideration of objections
Where the council decides to consider objections to its proposed scheme or to proposed alterations to an existing scheme, without causing an independent examination to be held, it must give notice to this effect to every person who has duly made, and has not withdrawn, an objection or representation.
Where the council decides to cause an independent examination to be held to consider duly made objections to its proposed scheme or to proposed alterations to an existing scheme, the council must, at least eight weeks before it is due to open–
give written notice of the independent examination’s purpose and of the time and place at which it is to be held, and of the name of the approved person appointed to hold it or of the planning appeals commission, to every person who has duly made, and has not withdrawn, an objection or representation; and
also give notice of the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) by local advertisement.
An independent examination for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (1) must be held in public.