New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT REGULATION 2000 - REG 77

77 Notice of development applications

(1) As soon as practicable after a development application is lodged with the consent authority, the consent authority must--

(a) publish notice of the application on the consent authority's website, and

(b) give notice of the application to--

(i) the public authorities (other than relevant concurrence authorities or approval bodies) that, in the opinion of the consent authority, may have an interest in the determination of the application, and

(ii) in the case of a development application other than designated development--the persons that, in the opinion of the consent authority, own or occupy the land adjoining the land to which the application relates (unless the notice is in respect of an application for public notification development).

(2) The notice must contain the following information--

(a) a description (including the address) of the land on which the development is proposed to be carried out,

(b) the name of the applicant and the consent authority,

(c) a description of the proposed development,

(d) whether or not the development is designated development, nominated integrated development, threatened species development, Class 1 aquaculture development or State significant development,

(e) a statement that the development application and the documents accompanying the application, including any environmental impact statement, are publicly available on the consent authority's website for the period specified in Schedule 1 to the Act for that kind of development,

(f) a statement that any person, during the submission period specified in Schedule 1 to the Act for that kind of development, may make submissions to the consent authority concerning the development application and that the submissions must specify the grounds of objection (if any),

(g) if the proposed development is also integrated development--

(i) a statement that the development is integrated development, and

(ii) a statement of the approvals that are required and the relevant approval bodies for those approvals,

(h) in the case of State significant development--whether the Minister has directed that a public hearing should be held,

(i) in the case of designated development--a statement that, unless the Independent Planning Commission has conducted a public hearing, a person may appeal to the Land and Environment Court if the person makes a submission by way of objection and is dissatisfied with the determination of the consent authority to grant development consent,

(j) in the case of designated development--a statement that, if the Independent Planning Commission conducts a public hearing, the Commission's determination of the application is final and not subject to appeal.

(3) For the purposes of this clause--

(a) if land is a lot in a strata scheme (within the meaning of the Strata Schemes Development Act 2015 ), a notice to the owners corporation is taken to be notice to the owner or occupier of each lot within the strata scheme, and

(b) if land is a lot in a leasehold strata scheme (within the meaning of the Strata Schemes Development Act 2015 ), a notice to the lessor under the leasehold strata scheme and to the owners corporation is taken to be notice to the owner or occupier of each lot within the leasehold strata scheme, and

(c) if land is owned or occupied by more than one person, a notice to one owner or one occupier is taken to be notice to all the owners and occupiers of that land.