18Draft development control plans submitted by owners

18 Draft development control plans submitted by owners

18 Draft development control plans submitted by owners

(1) This section applies if an environmental planning instrument requires or permits a development control plan to be prepared and submitted to the relevant planning authority, as referred to in the Act, section 3.44.

(2) The relevant planning authority may request information from the owners of the land to which the development control plan relates that—

(a) the planning authority considers necessary for the purposes of making the development control plan, and

(b) relates to a relevant matter referred to in an environmental planning instrument.

(3) For the purposes of the Act, section 3.44(6), the 60-day period is extended by the number of days between—

(a) the day on which the relevant planning authority requests additional information from the owners under subsection (2), and

(b) the day on which the owners give or refuse to give the information to the relevant planning authority.

(4) If the owners refuse to give the information to the relevant planning authority, the development control plan is taken not to have been submitted to the relevant planning authority.