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172: Decision of requiring authority
or “A group decides if they agree with suggestions about their plans and explains why”
You could also call this:

“The council must tell people about the decision on a designation and how they can appeal it.”

When a requiring authority makes a decision about a designation, the local council must tell certain people about it within 15 working days. They need to let you know about the decision and tell you how long you have to appeal it if you disagree. The council must tell people who made a submission about the designation, and also tell landowners and people living on the affected land.

If the council gives a short version of the decision, they must do a few things. They need to make the full decision available for you to see at all their offices and public libraries in the area. This could be a physical copy or one you can look at on a computer. They also need to tell you where you can find these copies. If you ask for a copy of the decision, they must send it to you within 3 working days.

The council must follow these rules to make sure everyone who needs to know about the decision can find out easily. This helps you understand what’s happening and gives you a chance to appeal if you need to.

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Next up: 174: Appeals

or “You can ask a special court to check if a decision about land use is fair.”
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Part 8 Designations and heritage orders
Designations

173Notification of decision on designation

  1. A territorial authority must ensure that, within 15 working days after a decision is made by a requiring authority under section 172, a notice of decision and a statement of the time within which an appeal against the decision may be lodged is served on—

  2. persons who made a submission; and
    1. land owners and occupiers directly affected by the decision.

      1. If the territorial authority gives a notice summarising a decision, it must—

      2. make a copy of the decision available (whether physically or by electronic means) at all its offices and all public libraries in the district; and
        1. include with the notice a statement of the places where a copy of the decision is available; and
          1. send or provide, on request, a copy of the decision within 3 working days after the request is received.

            Notes
            • Section 173: replaced, on , by section 64 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 23).