Schedule 8 of theElectricity Act 1989 directs ministers to consider objections received fromparties other than the planning authority along with all other materialconsiderations in determining whether a public inquiry should be held.In dispensing with a publicinquiry, Scottish ministers must be satisfied that they can properly weigh anytwo or more conflicting issues and, secondly, that those with the right to makerepresentations have had their representations properly taken into account...