Planning (Development Plans) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

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" Representations about objections
     4A.  - (1) Following receipt of objections to a development plan in accordance with Articles 5(5) or 6(4) the Department shall publish in the Belfast Gazette and by local advertisement a notice stating -


(a) the area affected by the development plan or, as the case may be, by the alteration, repeal or replacement of the development plan;

(b) the general nature of the plan or alteration, repeal or replacement;

(c) that objections have been received to the development plan, alteration, instrument of repeal or replacement plan;

(d) the places and times at which and the period during which copies of the objections may be inspected by the public;

(e) that any representations about objections to the plan, or alteration, repeal or replacement and in a case where the Department is acting pursuant to Article 6 any representations about the alteration, repeal or replacement, should be made in writing;

(f) the time within which representations about 1 or more of those objections must be made and the address to which they should be sent;

(g) that any person making a representation about 1 or more of those objections may ask to be notified of the Department's decision in writing at such address as he specifies.



    (2) Persons wishing to make representations to the Department in accordance with paragraph (1) shall do so in writing within a period of 8 weeks beginning with the date on which copies of the objections are first made available for inspection at any place by the public.".

    (3)

(a) In paragraph (1) of regulation 11 (Public local inquiries) after the words "to consider objections" insert "and representations about objections".

(b) In paragraph (1)(b) of regulation 11, where it twice occurs, after the word "objection" insert "or representation about objection" and after the word "objector" insert the words "or person making representation".

(c) In paragraph (2) of regulation 11 after the words "Copies of all objections" insert "and representations about objections".

    (4) In paragraph 2 of regulation 13 (Modifications) after the word "Regulations" insert "4A,".



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on


13th October 2004.

L.S.

Marianne Fleming
A senior officer of the Department of the Environment

[2] S.R. 1991 No. 119 as amended by S.R. 1994 No. 394back