Which Is Most Accurate

Which is most accurate?
An interim application should be made …

A) as soon as the need for it has been identified and usually after giving your opponent the chance to agree to the application.
B) at the allocation hearing.
C) and the opponent should be asked to accede to the request and warned that the application will be made at the trial and be reserved to the trial. At that time the trial judge will consider the consequences of the opponent not acceding to the request at the earlier stage.
D) at the nearest next hearing of the case at either an allocation hearing or a subsequent CMC.