Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered ActsSection 47A
repeal, insert
No notice is required for a development application solely for consent to:
(a) carry out the consolidation of land; or
(b) subdivide land under the Unit Titles Act 1975 or the Unit Title Schemes Act 2009 , other than to subdivide vacant land.
(1) Written notice of the following development applications must be given in accordance with this section:
(a) a development application solely for consent to use or develop land to accommodate people requiring privacy, as prescribed by regulation;
(b) a development application solely for consent to carry out a use or development that will not have a significant effect on the existing and future amenity of the locality, as prescribed by regulation.
(2) The consent authority, or the applicant if so required in writing by the consent authority, must give the notice to any person or class of person prescribed by regulation.
(3) The notice must include the information specified in section 47(2).
(1) Only the notice requirements of subsections (2) and (3) apply to a development application or class of development applications prescribed by regulation.
(2) The consent authority, or the applicant if so required in writing by the consent authority, must give written notice of the development application to the following persons:
(a) any person who owns land adjoining the land to which the development application relates;
(b) if the land to which the development application relates adjoins a public road – the owner of each of the 3 parcels of land closest to and on the opposite side of the road;
(c) any other person the consent authority considers should be notified of the application.
(3) The applicant must post a sign on the land to which the development application relates that is legible from the boundary of the public road nearest to the land.
(4) The notice and sign must include the information specified in section 47(2).