Mr. Paul Hogan:

We are happy to do that. Notifying neighbours specifically, that is, looking at a map and identifying the properties around, is what happens in the UK, for example, where there are no third party rights of appeal. People need to get in at the initial application stage and be sure they are aware of the application. There is aquid pro quo. It has validity here and we can consider it as part of the regulations. I urge caution on one matter, which comes back to some of the earlier discussion. The failure to notify someone through simple error or omission should not be a ground to invalidate an application or to force a judicial review in all cases. Given there could be complicated boundary arrangements or property ownership patterns, there could be a genuine error where someone is not notified but everyone else is.There must be proportionality in these kinds of measures.