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The DPA has been given extra time to wade through the hundreds of responses it received to the Island Development Plan Review.
The Development and Planning Authority had proposed a number of changes to the IDP which it said would ensure there’s enough land available to build hundreds of new homes over the next decade.
276 submissions to the Review were received, containing more than 500 individual representations by States Committees, businesses, industry and third sector groups and parishioners.
The DPA recently said that it had reviewed all of those comments, but because there are so many it asked the planning inspector for extra time to "carry out further analysis in light of significant and contrasting views raised".
The DPA said it would also ask the inspector’s view on "any other implications this may have on the inquiry process".
It was confirmed in La Gazette Officielle earlier this week that the extension had been granted - with no date yet set for when the review process must be complete.
The 'Notice of a Delay to submit Further Representations' was printed on Tuesday but it has not yet been posted online.
It states: "Due to the significant and contrasting views raised in the Initial Representations received, the Development and Planning Authority (the 'DPA') has requested and the Planning Inspector has agreed to an extension to the period in which the DPA must respond to the Initial Representations.
"A revised timeline for the DPA to respond to the Initial Representations has not yet been agreed."
The notice says an updated timeline will be published "over the coming days and weeks".
When the DPA has responded to the Initial Representations, the Planning Inspector will invite "any person, organisation, society, agents, etc" to make Further Representations too.
The DPA said it needed the extra time because the representations made indicate "strongly divergent views".
One example given is that the Authority says it has been asked to both increase and decrease the applied buffers in the States Strategic Housing Indicator.
In addition, the DPA said significant new matters have been raised about the deliverability of some of the key sites allocated for housing.
Other significant representations from key stakeholders included proposals to amend Key Industrial Areas to compensate for some of the potential loss of proposed housing sites.
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