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Planning Bill

Planning consents - Notification, submissions, and hearings - Notification

126: Public notification of consent application after request for further information or report

You could also call this:

"Telling the public about your planning application if more information is needed"

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If you apply for a planning consent, the consent authority might ask for more information or a report. You must give them the information or agree to the report within a certain time. If you do not, the consent authority must tell the public about your application. The consent authority must also tell the public if they want a report, but you do not agree or respond in time. This rule applies even if there are other rules that say the application should not be made public. The consent authority has to follow this rule if they have not already decided how to notify people about your application. You can find more information about when the consent authority can ask for more information in section 119, and when they can commission a report in section 120.

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Part 4Planning consents
Notification, submissions, and hearings: Notification

126Public notification of consent application after request for further information or report

  1. A consent authority must publicly notify an application for a planning consent if—

  2. it has not already decided whether to give public or targeted notification of the application; and
    1. subsection (2) or (3) applies.

      1. This subsection applies if the consent authority requests further information on the application under section 119, but the applicant—

      2. does not provide the information within the time specified in the regulations; or
        1. refuses to provide the information.

          1. This subsection applies if the consent authority notifies the applicant under section 120 that it wants to commission a report, but the applicant—

          2. does not respond within the time specified in the regulations; or
            1. refuses to agree to the commissioning of the report.

              1. This section applies despite any rule in a land use plan or national rule that precludes public or targeted notification of the application.