Article 6 Pre-inquiry meeting

An inspector may hold a pre-inquiry meeting if he thinks it desirable.

The inspector shall arrange for not less than 2 weeks written notice of a meeting he proposes to hold under paragraph (1) to be given to the local planning authority, the appellant, any person known at the date of the notice to be entitled to appear at the inquiry and any other person whose presence at the meeting appears to him to be desirable.

The inspector shall preside at the meeting and shall determine the matters to be discussed and the procedure to be followed, and he may require any person present at the meeting who, in his opinion, is behaving in a disruptive manner, to leave and may refuse to permit that person to return to or attend any further meeting, or may permit him to return or attend only on such conditions as he may specify.