59Additional requirements for State significant development—the Act, s 4.39

59 Additional requirements for State significant development—the Act, s 4.39

59 Additional requirements for State significant development—the Act, s 4.39

(1) The Planning Secretary must give an applicant for State significant development a copy of the submissions, or a summary of the submissions, received in relation to the application during the public exhibition period.

(2) The Planning Secretary may, by written notice—

(a) identify the issues raised in the submissions that the Planning Secretary considers require a response from the applicant, and

(b) require the applicant to give a written response, and

(c) require the applicant to have regard to the State Significant Development Guidelines in preparing the response.

(3) The written notice must specify a reasonable period within which the response must be given to the Planning Secretary.

(4) The applicant may, through the NSW planning portal, notify the Planning Secretary that the applicant will not give a response.

(5) The applicant is taken to have notified the Planning Secretary that the applicant will not give a response if the applicant has not provided the information by the end of—

(a) the period specified under subsection (3), or

(b) a further period allowed by the Planning Secretary.

(6) The Planning Secretary must publish the following documents relating to a development application for State significant development on the NSW planning portal—

(a) the Planning Secretary’s environmental assessment requirements under Part 8, Division 2,

(b) the application, including accompanying documents and information and any amendments made to the application,

(c) submissions received during the public exhibition period and any response from the applicant received under subsection (2),

(d) any environmental assessment report prepared by the Planning Secretary,

(e) any development consent or modification to a development consent,

(f) any application made for a modification to development consent, including accompanying documents and information,