LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 NOTIFICATION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS TO NEIGHBOURS 114. (1) The council must give notice of an application for approval to erect a building to the persons who appear to the council to own the land adjoining the land to which the application applies if, in the council's opinion, the enjoyment of the adjoining land may be detrimentally affected by the proposed building after its erection. (2) In forming its opinion, the council must take into consideration the effect that the proposed building would have, after its erection, on the following: the views to and the views from the adjoining land the overshadowing of the adjoining land the privacy of the adjoining land the likelihood of the adjoining land being detrimentally affected by noise the streetscape any relevant matter in criteria in a local policy adopted under Part 3 by the council. (3) The council must also give notice of the making of an application for approval to erect a building to persons to whom notice is required to be given under criteria in a local policy adopted under Part 3 by the council. (4) For the purposes of this section, land adjoins other land if and only if it abuts that other land or is separated from it only by a pathway, driveway or similar thoroughfare. (5) The notice must be given as soon as practicable after the building application is made to the council and at least 10 days before the council determines the application. (6) A notice to an association for a community, precinct or neighbourhood parcel within the meaning of the Community Land Development Act 1989 or to a body corporate for a parcel within the meaning of the Strata Titles Act 1973 or the Strata Titles (Leasehold) Act 1986 is taken to be a notice under this section to the owner of each lot within the parcel concerned. (7) If a parcel of adjoining land is owned by more than one person, a notice to one owner is taken to satisfy the requirements of this section. (8) A notice must be in an approved form and must include or be accompanied by a plan in an approved form showing the height and external configuration of the building in relation to the site on which it is proposed to be erected. Adoption of criteria concerning notice of applications to erect buildings