Ms Coyle said the planning act allowed for the approval process to be stopped for up to an accumulative period of 130 days.
She said the mechanism could be stopped and restarted by the GemLife as many times as it liked.
GemLife has requested to halt the process on its application until March 18.
âIâve never seen that before,â Ms Coyle said.
âI find it quite highly unusual that theyâve taken this approach in order to try and defer the matter until a further meeting.
The layout of the proposed GemLife development.
âIt does mean that the council cannot decide the application today because the decision period is stopped.â