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Planning Bill

Planning consents - Applying for planning consent - General requirements

116: Deferral pending application for additional consents

You could also call this:

"Waiting for more planning approvals before deciding on your application"

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If you apply for a planning consent, the consent authority might stop the process. They can do this if they think you will need other planning consents for your proposal. They want to understand your proposal better, so they might ask you to apply for those other consents first. If the consent authority stops the process, they must tell you right away. You will get a notification from them about their decision. You can then ask the Planning Tribunal to cancel the consent authority's decision. You do this by applying for an order that says the decision should be revoked.

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Part 4Planning consents
Applying for planning consent: General requirements

116Deferral pending application for additional consents

  1. A consent authority may determine not to proceed with the notification or hearing of an application for a planning consent if it considers on reasonable grounds that—

  2. other planning consents under this Act will also be required in respect of the proposal to which the application relates; and
    1. it is appropriate, for the purpose of better understanding the nature of the proposal, that applications for any 1 or more of those other planning consents be made before proceeding further.

      1. If a consent authority makes a determination under subsection (1), it must immediately notify the applicant of the determination.

      2. The applicant may apply to the Planning Tribunal for an order directing that any determination under this section be revoked.