I am writing to respond to the letter from the Chief Executive of The Planning Inspectorate in Monday’s Bournemouth Echo.

In particular, the advice from Philip Dewhurst for PCBA was not actually misleading because it is indeed still possible, at this time, to register as an Interested Party under S. 102A of the Planning Act 2008.

Members of PCBA have applied for and been accepted for registration in this fashion.

Interested Parties are entitled to make submissions about the wind farm project to the Examining Authority during the Examination; last submission date is March 5, 2015.

It is understood that people (who are not Interested Parties) can also write in with their views and the Examining Authority have a discretion about taking those views into account.

In order to qualify as a late-registered Interested Party, one must apply to the Inspectorate at infrastructure.planningportal.gov.uk/projects/south-east/navitus-bay-wind-park/?ipcsection=overview For anyone wanting to do this, it is first necessary to qualify as an eligible person, as very briefly outlined in the next sentence.

Assuming the following criteria are satisfied, then it would be best for an applicant to say they are an ‘affected party’ because they hold a freehold or long leasehold (over three years unexpired) interest in ‘affected property’ that would suffer from the ‘physical factor of operational noise’ from the wind farm leading to a compensation claim under Part 1 of the Land Compensation Act 1973 in due course.

They should also refer to it being a ‘relevant claim’, give their address (as being within a few miles of the coast and thus subject to noise) and under falling Category 3.

In view of the short time until March 5, it would probably be best both to provide this eligibility information and also to submit views about the wind farm at the same time.

Bill Hoodless deputy chair, Poole and Christchurch Bays’ Association