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Planning consents - Applying for planning consent - Consent authority may require further information or report

119: Request for further information

You could also call this:

"Asking for More Details About Your Planning Application"

If you apply for a planning consent, the consent authority can ask you for more information at any reasonable time before they make a decision. They can only ask for this information if it is relevant to the application and will help them make a good decision. The consent authority must consider the cost and feasibility of getting the information, as well as how significant the matter is. If the consent authority asks for more information, they must do it in a specific way. You will be told what extra information you need to provide to help the consent authority understand your application. This will help them make a decision about your planning consent application. The consent authority wants to make sure they have enough information to make a good decision about your application. They will consider the details of your application and the potential effects of their decision. The consent authority must follow the rules when asking for more information from you.

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118: Certain consents must be processed and decided no later than 1 year after lodgement, or

"Consents must be decided within one year of applying"

120: Request for report, or

"Asking for a report to help decide your planning application"

Part 4Planning consents
Applying for planning consent: Consent authority may require further information or report

119Request for further information

A consent authority may request that the applicant provide further information relating to the application at any reasonable time before the hearing of an application for a planning consent or, if no hearing is held, before the decision to grant or refuse the application.
The consent authority may make a request under subsection (1) only if it is satisfied that—
the information requested does not relate to an effect that is outside the scope of this Act; and
obtaining the information will ensure that the consent authority has enough information to understand the implications of its decision, after considering—
1. the cost and feasibility of obtaining the information; and
2. the scale and significance of the matter to which the decision relates.

A consent authority that requests further information under this section must do so in the prescribed form and manner.