adm. leg. plan. (Statutory possibility for persons affected by planning measures/proposals making comments, objections and suggestions to community development plans and functional/sectoral plans; in U.S., the term has various meanings. At one extreme, p. h. is a generic term describing the formal or informal opportunities guaranteed to all citizens to comment publicly regarding any activity or action by an official body in accordance with state and federal Constitutions giving all citizens the right to petition their governments for a “redress of grievances”. More narrowly, a p. h. may be required evidentiary or quasi-judicial procedure and similar to the formal “public inquiry” in British planning legislation. Both types of open meeting require public notice of time, place, etc.; in U.K., statutory requirement for the public to be given opportunity to voice their comments on planning proposals; according to U.K. planning law, established by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act...