Planning Act 2023

This section applies if—

a development application is a concurrent development application; and

a concurrent document, or a provision of a concurrent document, relating to the application—

is refused, rejected or withdrawn; or

is taken to have been refused, rejected or withdrawn; or

for a draft major plan amendment—is revised in a way that no longer permits the proposed development.

The territory planning authority is taken to have refused the concurrent development application.

The territory planning authority must give the applicant for the concurrent development application written notice of the effect of this section.

In this section:

if the application is made under section 157 (Applications in anticipation of major plan amendment)—the draft major plan amendment that gives effect to the anticipated plan amendment; or

if the application is made under section 159 (Applications for development encroaching on adjoining land if development prohibited)—the proposed technical amendment.