Planning Inspectorate Newsletter - Issue 4

Planning Inspectorate Stakeholder meetings

The Planning Inspectorate holds annual meetings with the following groups of stakeholders:

Interest Groups
Development Community
Professional Bodies
Legal Bodies
Oversight groups
Regional bodies
Public bodies
London

The purpose of these meetings

To enhance two-way communications between PINS and representatives of the various stakeholders.
To generate two-way engagement and accountability between PINS and stakeholders; and
To identify areas for improvement and future action.

Discussion at most of the meetings normally includes an update on PINS performance and discussion on Local Development Framework issues plus any other matters which stakeholders wish to raise.

Attached is a chart showing the organisations which make up the above groups of stakeholders.

The most notable outcomes during the 2006 meetings have related to the need for greater partnership policy on disseminating information from the early experience of the new spatial plan system and the work being undertaken to improve the processing and timeliness of scheduling public inquiries, especially with regard to Housing inquiries. Climate change has also been a hot topic for discussion.

Sheila Rice
Personal Assistant/Chief Executive

(as at October 2006)

Programme of Stakeholder Meetings

Stakeholder Group	Members of Group	Date of Last Meeting
The development community	British Property Federation Home Builders’ Federation Country Land and Business Owners’ Association British Retail Consortium	5 July 2006
Bodies with an oversight role	APOS Administrative Justice & Tribunals Council	29 June 2006
Legal Bodies	Law Society Planning and Environmental Bar Association	Monday 9 October 2006
Public Bodies	Environment Agency Association of National Park Authorities English Heritage Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment Countryside Agency English Nature CADW	Due to be held on Thursday 14 September 2006 but cancelled due to lack of attendance. Individual meetings have been held with English Heritage, CABE and the Environment Agency.
Professional Bodies etc	Royal Town Planning Institute Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Royal Institute of British Architects Landscape Institute Planning Officers’ Society County Surveyors’ Society Local Government Association National Planning Forum British Institute of Agricultural Consultants Institute of Public Rights of Way Management' Institution of Civil Engineers Town and Country Planning Association * Invited to but did not attend last meeting	Monday 4 September 2006 In

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