The Planning (Local Development Plan) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Adoption of a development plan document N.I.

24.—(1) The planning appeals commission or, as the case may be, the person appointed must send the recommendations and reasons for the recommendations to the Department.

(2) The council must adopt the development plan document as soon as reasonably practicable after the receipt of the Department's direction under section 12(1)(a) or (b).

(3) On the date on which the council adopts the development plan document it must —

(a) make available the following documents for inspection during normal office hours at the places referred to in paragraph (b) —

(i) the development plan document,

(ii) a statement prepared by the council specifying the date on which the development plan document was adopted,

(iii) the report under section 8(6)(b) or as the case may be section 9(7)(b),

(iv) the recommendations of the planning appeals commission or, as the case may be, the person appointed and the reasons for those recommendations, and

(v) the Department's direction under section 12(1)(a) or (b);

(b) the places referred to in paragraph (a) are—

(i) the council's principal offices, and

(ii) such other places within the district of the council as the council considers appropriate;

(c) publish the documents and statements mentioned in paragraph (a) on its website;

(d) give notice in the Belfast Gazette and by local advertisement of—

(i) the statement prepared by the council specifying the date on which the development plan document was adopted,

(ii) the fact that the development plan document is available for inspection and the places and times at which it can be inspected;

(e) send to the Department a copy of each of the documents referred to in sub-paragraph (a); and

(f) notify any person who has asked to be notified of the adoption of the development plan document.