On 01 October 2024, the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) made a Statutory Rule, The Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024, which enables councils to publish a Planning Application Validation Checklist. The legislation provides councils with time to prepare and consult upon their proposed statutory validation checklists.
Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council is seeking your views on a draft statutory Planning Application Validation Checklist. The Planning Application Validation Checklist will set out the information, plans or evidence which must be submitted with your planning application following implementation of the checklist to make an application ‘valid’. The consultation response will take less than 10 minutes to complete.
The consultation period will run for 12 weeks from 01 December 2025. Responses received after 23 February 2026 will not be considered.
Once the consultation period closes, we will consider the comments received before a final statutory Planning Application Validation Checklist is implemented.
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