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

Submission of documents for independent examination

20.—(1) Before a council submits a development plan document to the Department under section 10, it must consider representations made under regulation 16 and, as the case may be, regulation 18.

(2) The documents prescribed for the purposes of section 10(3) are—

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

(b) the statement of community involvement,

(c) evidence that the council has complied with its statement of community involvement,

(d) copies of the notices referred to in regulation 10(a)(iv), 15(a)(iv), and 17(1)(a)(iii),

(e) the timetable,

(f) a statement setting out—

(i) a summary of the main issues raised in representations made in accordance with regulation 11(2), and

(ii) how those main issues have been taken into account in the preparation of the development plan document;

(g) a statement setting out—

(i) if representations were made in accordance with regulation 16(2) or 18(2), the number of representations made and a summary of the main issues raised in those representations, or

(ii) that no such representations were made;

(h) copies of any representations made in accordance with regulation 16(2) or 18(2), and

(i) such supporting documents as in the opinion of the council are relevant to the preparation of the development plan document.

(3) The council must also send to the Department—

(a) where the development plan document is a plan strategy, a copy of that plan strategy, or

(b) where the development plan document is a local policies plan—

(i) a copy of that local policies plan, and

(ii) a copy of the adopted plan strategy.