The Infrastructure Planning (Interested Parties) Regulations 2010
The Planning Act 2008 (c.29) establishes the Infrastructure Planning Commission (“IPC”) and provides for the granting of development consent for certain types of nationally significant infrastructure projects. Chapter 4 of Part 6 of the Act sets out the procedure for examining applications for development consent. This procedure provides that “interested parties”, among other things, can notify the IPC of a wish to be heard at an open-floor hearing and are entitled to make oral representations about the application at the open-floor hearing.