Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2021
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40 Withdrawal of development applications
40 Withdrawal of development applications
(1) An applicant may, through the NSW planning portal, withdraw a development application at any time before the application is determined.
(2) An application that is withdrawn is taken never to have been made, except for the purposes of this Regulation, section 57(4) or the Act, Schedule 1.
(3) Immediately after a development application for integrated development or development requiring concurrence is withdrawn, the consent authority must notify, through the NSW planning portal, each relevant approval body or concurrence authority.
(4) Subsection (3) applies only if the consent authority has already notified the approval body under section 42 or the concurrence authority under section 50.