Twenty-one days, one meeting, and now the evidence.

A planning application lands and the clock starts. OTTO reads the documents that govern your parish and answers with the exact passages quoted, so your response stands on evidence rather than opinion. And your council keeps the decision: OTTO never chooses your position.

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How a consultation goes.

01

The application arrives

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02

The evidence assembles

One question per material consideration, each answered from the plan, quoted and checked against the passages it cites.

03

Your council decides

The evidence layer is ours; the position and the local knowledge are yours. Tabled, minuted, done.

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Question

What weight can a decision-maker give to an emerging local plan?

Weight is a matter for the decision-maker, but national policy fixes the three controlling factors: the stage of preparation the emerging plan has reached, the extent of unresolved objections to the relevant policies, and their degree of consistency with national policy [1]. Until adoption, determination must still be made in accordance with the adopted development plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise [2].

  1. [1]SAMPLE ONLY (dev fixture), para 48In forceNational policy
    “…the more advanced its preparation, the greater the weight that may be given… the less significant the unresolved objections, the greater the weight… the closer the policies in the emerging plan to the policies in the Framework, the greater the weight…”
  2. [2]SAMPLE ONLY (dev fixture), s.38(6)In forceStatute
    “…the determination must be made in accordance with the plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise.”

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