Publicity for applications
4.—(1) Where an application for the modification or discharge of a planning agreement is made to the Department, the Department shall publicise the application by—
(a)publishing notice of the application in at least one newspaper circulating in the locality in which the land to which the application relates is situated; and
(b)where it maintains a website for the purpose of advertisement of applications, by publication of the notice on the website.
(2) The notice published in accordance with paragraph (1) shall invite representations on the application to be made to the Department within 4 weeks of the date on which the notice is first published in a newspaper in pursuance of sub-paragraph (a) or is first published on the website, whichever is the later.
(3) The Department shall make a copy of the application and the relevant part of the instrument by which the planning agreement was entered into available for inspection during the period allowed for making representations under paragraph (2).