Planning Act 1999
47BDevelopment application requiring limited or no notice
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47B Development application requiring limited or no notice (1) Written notice of the following development applications must be given in accordance with this section: (a) a development application solely for consent to use or develop land to accommodate people requiring privacy, as prescribed by regulation; (b) a development application solely for consent to carry out a use or development that will not have a significant effect on the existing and future amenity of the locality, as prescribed by regulation. (2) The consent authority, or the applicant if so required in writing by the consent authority, must give the notice to any person or class of person prescribed by regulation, unless the development application includes the written consent, in the approved form, of the persons and classes of persons as prescribed.
Planning Act 1999 64 (3) The notice must include the information specified in section 47(2). (4) For subsection (3), the minimum submission period that may be specified in the notice, under section 47(2)(c), is 7 days.