{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2038",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Appearances at inquiry",
  "text": "(1) The persons entitled to appear at an inquiry are—\n(a) the applicant;\n(b) the local planning authority;\n(c) any of the following bodies if the land is situated in their area and they are not the local planning authority—\n(i) a county or district council;\n(ii) a National Park Committee within the meaning of paragraph 5 of Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1972;\n(iii) a joint planning board constituted under section 2(1)\nof the Planning Act or a joint planning board or special planning board reconstituted under Part I of Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1972;\n(iv) an urban development corporation established under section 135 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;\n(v) an enterprise zone authority designated under Schedule 32 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;\n(vi) the Broads Authority, within the meaning of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988;\n(vii) a housing action trust specified in an order made under section 67(1) of the Housing Act 1988;\n(d) where the land is in an area designated as a new town, the development corporation for the new town or the Commission for the New Towns as its successor;\n(e) statutory party;\n(f) the council of the parish or community in which the land is situated, if that council made representations to the local planning authority in respect of the application in pursuance of a provision of a development order;\n(g) where the application was required to be notified to the Commission under section 14 of the Listed Buildings Act, the Commission;\n(h) any other person who has served a statement of case in accordance with rule 6(6) or who has served an outline statement in accordance with rule 5(6).\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prevent the inspector from permitting any other person to appear at an inquiry, and such permission shall not be unreasonably withheld.\n(3) Any person entitled or permitted to appear may do so on his own behalf or be represented by counsel, solicitor or any other person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1988 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1988 c. 50."
    }
  ],
  "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/1992/2038/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:17:04.002428+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."
}