Mr. Gavin Lawlor:

Large-scale residential development is meant to be a replacement for strategic housing development, allowing for more public engagement at an earlier stage and allowing for appeal. The difficulty with large-scale residential development is that it has a longer front-end run-in process for an applicant to deal with some of the issues. The ambition is that all of the creases are ironed out before a planning application is lodged. In effect, applicants go through the further information phase before they get to lodge.