This is me being lazy and doing a straightforward copy and paste but, what the hell, this press release says it all:
A planning application for a new Surface Mine to the west of Nottingham has been declared invalid because of an error in a certificate submitted as part of the application.
UK Coal Mining Limited submitted a planning application for the extraction of coal and fireclay from the Shortwood site in April 2012.
The application was scheduled to be considered by Nottinghamshire County Council's Planning and Licensing Committee on 30 September this year.
However, it recently emerged that the certificate of ownership - a legal requirement accompanying planning applications - was found to contain an administrative error.
After seeking legal advice the County Council, having discussed the matter with the applicant, is unable to consider the application with the existing certificate and has no alternative other than to invalidate the application and return it.
UK Coal Surface Mines Limited has indicated that it wishes to resubmit the application with the amended certificates, although the details of the proposal itself would remain unaltered.
Any resubmitted application will be subject to the usual statutory publicity and consultation requirements. However, given that this is a legal technicality with no change to the details of the development proposals, it is likely that the views and consultation responses received to date will remain unaltered.
If similar proposals are resubmitted, representations made by members of the public in response to the original consultation will be carried forward, unless the Council is advised otherwise. There will also be an opportunity to make new representations as part of the consultation on the resubmission.
Sally Gill, Planning Group Manager at Nottinghamshire County Council, explained: "No legal provision exists for the defective certificate of ownership to be corrected, whilst keeping the application live. So, in light of the clear legal advice we have received, we have no alternative but to invalidate the Shortwood application and return it.
"If a largely unaltered application with corrected certificates is submitted, it is possible that the application could be considered by the Council's Planning and Licensing Committee later this year."
Planning applications made to the County Council can be viewed on the website, www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk
Unfortunately this is not the end of the story but it does give people time to write in and object to this application to obtain coal by open cast mining You can comment on line which makes life easy.
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