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

121: Response to request for further information or report

You could also call this:

"Answering a request for more information from the consent authority"

If you get a request for more information under section 119, or if the consent authority wants a report under section 120, you must reply. You have to respond in the way and by the time set out in the regulations. The regulations will tell you how and when to respond to the consent authority.

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120: Request for report, or

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

122: Consequences of applicant’s failure to respond to requests, etc, or

"What happens if you don't respond to requests when applying for planning consent?"

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

121Response to request for further information or report

An applicant that receives a request for further information under section 119, or notification that the consent authority wants to commission a report under section 120, must respond to the consent authority in the manner and within the time prescribed in the regulations.