Assessing an Application
All applications that are received are checked to ensure that all required information has been supplied.
Under the Planning and Environment Act 1987, Council has 28 days to ask you for further information and/or seek claification on the documentation supplied.
Applicants typically forget to supply information such as:
- A site and neighbourhood description
- A design response
- Fully scaled and dimensioned plans
- Shadow Diagrams
- Landscape Plans
- Body Corporate consent
When all the requested information has been received, we will determine whether the application should be advertised to affected properties. Most applications are advertised, unless it is established that the proposal will cause no material detriment to any person.
If advertising is required, all the people likely to be detrimentally affected by the proposal will be given notice of the application. Advertising can take a number of forms, for example;
- Notifying the owners/occupiers of adjoining properties directly by mail.
- Erecting a public notice on site, as well as direct mailing.
- Placing advertisements in the local paper.
For some applications Council is required to advertise or refer the application to other statutory authorities for comment. These authorities are entitled to object to an application, or require conditions be placed upon any Notice of Decision or Permit issued.
Affected parties are entitled to make a submission on the application and should do so within 14 days of receiving notice of the application.
Current planning applications can be viewed at the Planning Counter during business hours.
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