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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents - Application for resource consent

91: Deferral pending application for additional consents

You could also call this:

“The council can pause your request if you need more permits, so they can understand your plan better.”

When you apply for a resource consent, the authority that handles these applications can decide not to go ahead with notifying others about your application or holding a hearing about it. They can do this if they think you need to get other resource consents for your project as well. They might want you to apply for these other consents first so they can better understand what you’re planning to do.

If the authority decides to wait, they have to tell you right away. If you don’t agree with their decision to wait, you can ask the Environment Court to cancel the authority’s decision.

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Environment and resources > Town planning
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Part 6 Resource consents
Application for resource consent

91Deferral pending application for additional consents

  1. A consent authority may determine not to proceed with the notification or hearing of an application for a resource consent if it considers on reasonable grounds that—

  2. other resource consents under this Act will also be required in respect of the proposal to which the application relates; and
    1. it is appropriate, for the purpose of better understanding the nature of the proposal, that applications for any 1 or more of those other resource consents be made before proceeding further.

      1. Where a consent authority makes a determination under subsection (1), it shall forthwith notify the applicant of the determination.

      2. The applicant may apply to the Environment Court for an order directing that any determination under this section be revoked.

      Notes
      • Section 91(3): amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).