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

120: Request for report

You could also call this:

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

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If you apply for planning consent, the consent authority might ask someone to write a report about your application. They can do this at any reasonable time before they make a decision on your application. You will be told about the report before it is commissioned. The consent authority can only ask for a report if they think it will help them make a good decision. They must consider how much the report will cost and how important the issue is. The report might look at the information you provided with your application. If the report reviews your information, it must be done by an expert chosen by the consent authority. The expert can only look at how you worked out your information, not the information itself. The consent authority must follow the rules when asking for a report.

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

120Request for report

  1. A consent authority may commission a person to prepare a report on a matter relating to the application, including a matter relating to information provided by the applicant in the application or under section 119,—

  2. 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; and
    1. only if the applicant is notified before the consent authority commissions the report, and does not refuse, in accordance with the regulations, to agree to the commissioning of the report.

      1. The consent authority may notify the applicant that it wants to commission a report under subsection (1) only if it is satisfied that—

      2. the report does not relate to an effect that is outside the scope of this Act; and
        1. obtaining the report will ensure the consent authority has enough information to understand the implications of its decision, after considering—
          1. the cost and feasibility of obtaining the report; and
            1. the scale and significance of the matter to which the decision relates.

            2. A report commissioned under subsection (1) may be in the form of a review of the information provided by the applicant under section 119.

            3. If the report is a review of the information provided by the applicant—

            4. it must be carried out by an expert appointed by the consent authority; and
              1. it must be limited to an assessment of the methodology used to reach the conclusion of that information.

                1. A consent authority that commissions a report under this section must do so in the prescribed manner.