Article 16 Site inspections
The inspector may make an unaccompanied inspection of the land before or during an inquiry without giving notice of the intention to do so to the persons entitled to take part in the inquiry.
During an inquiry or after its close, the inspector—
may inspect the land in the company of the applicant, the local planning authority and any statutory party; and
must make such an inspection if so requested by the applicant or the local planning authority before or during an inquiry.
In all cases where the inspector intends to make an accompanied site inspection the inspector must announce during the inquiry the date and time at which the inspector proposes to make it.
The inspector is not bound to defer an inspection of the kind referred to in paragraph (2) where any person mentioned in that paragraph is not present at the time appointed.