{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-england-rules-2000/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-england-rules-2000/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1624",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-england-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Further power of inspector to hold pre-inquiry meetings",
  "text": "(1) Where no pre-inquiry meeting is held pursuant to rule 5, an inspector may hold one if he thinks it necessary.\n(2) An inspector shall give not less than 2 weeks written notice of a pre-inquiry meeting he proposes to hold under paragraph (1) to—\n(a) the applicant;\n(b) the local planning authority;\n(c) any person known at the date of the notice to be entitled to appear at the inquiry; and\n(d) any other person whose presence at the pre-inquiry meeting appears to him to be desirable.\n(3) Rule 5(8) shall apply to a pre-inquiry meeting held under this rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "superseded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1223",
      "affecting_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Major Infrastructure Project Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1624/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:19.097676+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."
}