{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-hearings-procedure-wales-rules-2003/article-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1271",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Hearings Procedure) (Wales) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-hearings-procedure-wales-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Procedure after hearing—transferred appeals",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where a hearing has been held for the purposes of a transferred appeal.\n(2) When making a decision the inspector may disregard any written representations, evidence or any other document received after the hearing has closed.\n(3) If, after the close of the hearing, an inspector proposes to take into consideration any new evidence or any new matter of fact (not being a matter of National Assembly policy) which was not raised at the hearing and which the inspector considers to be material to the decision, the inspector must not come to a decision without first—\n(a) notifying the appellant and the local planning authority;\n(b) notifying the persons entitled to, and who did, take part in the hearing of the matter in question; and\n(c) affording those notified pursuant to (a) and (b) an opportunity of making written representations or of asking for the re-opening of the hearing,\nand those persons must ensure that such written representations or request to re-open the hearing are received by the National Assembly within 3 weeks of the date of the notification.\n(4) An inspector may, as the inspector thinks fit, cause a hearing to be re-opened and must do so if asked by the appellant or the local planning authority in the circumstances and within the period mentioned in paragraph (3); and where a hearing is re-opened—\n(a) the inspector must send to the persons entitled to, and who did, take part in the hearing, a written statement of the matters with respect to which further evidence is invited; and\n(b) paragraphs (2) to (6) of rule 7 apply as if the references to a hearing were references to a re-opened hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1271/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:24:11.427374+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}