Key legal question
Whether the BJD's response to an unpublished pre-application for a building project was an appealable building permit refusal or only a non-appealable preliminary decision.
Extracted holding
Because no formal building application had been filed and no publication had occurred, the BJD decision was only a preliminary decision on a pre-application, not a refusal of a building permit.
Extracted reasoning
Under § 8(1) KBV, publication and public display are required for an ordinary building permit procedure. Without those steps, the authority can only provide a forecast of the likely decision. Such a response does not itself constitute a valid building permit decision.