Bournemouth-Swanage Toll Review Public Inquiry

Project Description
6 November 2025 – the Secretary of State has today issued their decision

Annex A – Inspector’s report

Annex B – Decision Letter

31 January 2025

The Inquiry opened at 10 am on Tuesday 21 January 2025 and closed on Wednesday 29 January.

The final version of the Inquiry Documents List is Inquiry Documents List 31 1 2025

29 January 2025

The Closing Submissions on behalf of the applicant have been submitted to the Inquiry Closing Submissions for the Applicant – 29 Jan 2025

29 January 2025

The Closing Submissions on behalf of the Consortium have been submitted to the Inquiry

Bournemouth-Swanage Ferry v Swanage Town Council v others closing 250129

Bowen v IoW 2022 1 W.L.R. 1802

Map of the proposed road toll concession – Consortium Alternative 5-mile buffer from South Ferry Road

Map of the proposed road toll concession – Consortium Alternative 6-mile buffer

Map of the proposed road toll concession

29 January 2025

The following documents have this morning been submitted by the applicant –

Statutory Instrument 28-01-25 as submitted

Side letter 29.1.25 signed as submitted

28 January 2025

The Inquiry Documents List has been further updated, the new documents are highlighted on Inquiry Documents List 28 1 2025 rev2

28 January 2025

The Inquiry Documents List has been further updated, the new documents are highlighted on Inquiry Documents List 28 1 2025 rev1

28 January 2025

The Inquiry Documents List has been updated, the new documents are highlighted on Inquiry Documents List 28 1 2025

27 January 2025

The Inquiry Documents List has been updated, the new documents are highlighted on Inquiry Documents List 27 1 2025

24 January 2025

The following documents have been submitted by the applicant –

Statutory Instrument draft 231.25

Note on the Operating Hours

21 January 2025

The following Bundles of all the Core Documents and Evidence have been prepared by the applicant and will be referred to in the inquiry Bundle/Page number –

Bundle 1 – CDA – Revised Application Documents

Bundle 2 – CDB – Legislation Previous Inquiry Documents

Bundle 3 – App – Ferry Company (reduced)

Bundle 4 – OBJ – Objector’s Bundle (new)

21 January 2025

The opening statement of the Ferry Company is now available Ferry Company Opening Submissions – 21 January 2025

The opening statement of the Consortium is now available Bournemouth-Swanage Ferry v Swanage Town Council v others opening 250121

20 January 2025

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ORDER OF THE FERRY COMPANY’S WITNESSES HAS CHANGED – Inquiry Programme 20 1 2025

17 January 2025

Livestreaming of the Inquiry will be available at https://www.youtube.com/@SandbanksMotorFerry

16 January 2025

SOCG/2 has been added to Inquiry Documents List 16 1 2025

14 January 2025

A Statement of Common Ground between the Ferry Company and the Consortium has been submitted to the Inquiry Statement of Common Gound Ferry Company-Consortium_

14 January 2025

The Inquiry Programme is now available Inquiry Programme 14 1 2025

14 January 2025

The Inquiry Documents List has been updated, the new document is highlighted on Inquiry Documents List 14 1 2025 

9 January 2025

CDB.9 has been added to CD List 9 1 2025

7 January 2025

CDB.8 has been added to CD List 7 1 2025

3 January 2025

The rebuttal evidence submitted today is highlighted on Inquiry Documents List 3 1 2025 

19 December 2024

The Inquiry Documents List has been updated to include statements submitted by the third-parties Inquiry Documents List 19 12 24

13 December 2014

The Inspector has issued a Pre-Inquiry Note Pre-Inquiry Note

12 December 2024

The evidence of the Consortium and some further third-party statements have been added to Inquiry Documents List 12 12 24

12 December 2024

All the submitted objections are now available to view, please note that for individuals the objections have been redacted and anonymised Objections received to the Toll Review Application 

3 December 2024

CDA.6A, CDA.6B and CDB.7 have been added to CD List 3 12 2024

25 November 2024

The Core Documents List has been updated CD List 25 11 2024

22 November 2024

The Core Documents List is now available CD List 22 11 2024

The Inquiry Documents List is now available Inquiry Documents List 22 11 24

18 November 2024

The applicant has submitted appendices A and C of Mr Thomas’ evidence in Excel spreadsheet format including the formulae

Copy of Statement of Kevin Thomas Appendix A – with formulae

Copy of Statement of Kevin Thomas Appendix C – with formulae

11 November 2024

The applicant has submitted appendices A and C of Mr Thomas’ evidence in Excel spreadsheet format

Copy of Statement of Kevin Thomas Appendix A

Copy of Statement of Kevin Thomas Appendix C

7 November 2024

The applicant has today submitted their evidence to the Inquiry

Statement of Michael Kean 7.11.24 (as served)

Appendices to the Financial Statement and Response of Michael Kean

Statement of Kevin Thomas 7.11.24 (as served)

Appendices to the Financial Statement and Response of Kevin Thomas

The Inspector for the Inquiry was Kevin Gleeson BA MCD MRTPI

Helen Wilson was the Programme Officer, she can be contacted at helen@programmeofficers.co.uk  or on 07879 443035.
All the submitted objections are available to view, please note that for individuals the objections have been redacted and anonymised Objections received to the Toll Review Application 

The final version of the Inquiry Documents List is Inquiry Documents List 31 1 2025

The final version of the List is CD List 9 1 2025