ABSTRACT
Since 1948 a highly regulated system of land-use control has been gradually introduced by successive legislative reforms. Today, the implementation of urban planning controls is exercised under two distinct but interconnected subject areas, dealing first with the production of planning policies and then how those policies feed into the development control system, whereby decisions are made on individual planning applications. Both of these subjects form the bedrock of the planning system. Attention will be focused upon the context of planning policy, together with a detailed study of the processing of a planning application, including the formulation of the decision whether to grant or refuse such an application. Reference is also made to illustrative (but not exhaustive) case law on matters that constitute issues relevant to the determination of a planning application. The chapter is organized as follows:
• the development plan process • the development control process.
