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Planning consents - Notification, submissions, and hearings - Submissions on applications

133: Striking out submissions

You could also call this:

"When can your say be removed from a planning decision?"

If you make a submission on an application, the consent authority can remove it if they think it does not make a reasonable or relevant point. You can object to the Planning Tribunal if they remove your submission or part of it. The consent authority must follow certain rules when deciding to remove a submission.

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132: Form and service of submissions, or

"How to make a submission about a proposal"

134: Consent authority may refer to conference or mediation, or

"Consent authority can ask you to discuss your planning application at a meeting or with a helper"

Part 4Planning consents
Notification, submissions, and hearings: Submissions on applications

133Striking out submissions

A consent authority may, in accordance with the prescribed requirements, strike out a submission, or part of a submission, if the consent authority considers that the submission or the part discloses no reasonable or relevant case in relation to the application.
A person has a right of objection to the Planning Tribunal if all or part of their submission is struck out.