Member

Community engagement will be a key part of the Crown development process. The community will be fully engaged throughout. Much like with an application submitted to the local planning authority, there will be a mandatory consultation and publicity of the application for a minimum period of 21 days; this will be 30 days if the development is an environmental impact assessment development. This will enable members of the community to view and comment on the application. We expect that the majority of Crown development applications will be subject to a public hearing. Those who have made comments will be notified when this is to take place, and interested parties can attend if the inspector allows it. For urgent Crown development, community engagement will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Where possible, a meaningful consultation should take place. If it could not, we would encourage the Secretary of State to consider alternative methods of consulting.