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87BB: Activities meeting certain requirements are permitted activities
or “Some activities can be allowed if they only break the rules a little bit and don't cause any problems.”
You could also call this:

“These rules explain how you can ask the Environment Court to decide on your resource consent application instead of the usual authority.”

Sections 87D to 87I apply when you want the Environment Court, instead of a consent authority, to make a decision about your resource consent application. This can happen in two situations:

  1. When you have applied for a resource consent and it has been notified.
  2. When you have applied to change or cancel a condition of a resource consent and it has been notified.

However, if your application is called in under section 142(2), then sections 87D to 87I no longer apply to your application.

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Next up: 87D: Request for application to go directly to Environment Court

or “You can ask for a judge to decide about your building plans instead of the local council.”
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Part 6 Resource consents
Streamlining decision-making on resource consents

87CSections 87D to 87I apply to resource consent applications

  1. Sections 87D to 87I apply when an applicant wants one of the following applications to be determined by the Environment Court instead of by a consent authority:

  2. an application for a resource consent that has been notified:
    1. an application to change or cancel a condition of a resource consent that has been notified.

      1. If the application is called in under section 142(2), sections 87D to 87I cease to apply to it.

      Notes
      • Section 87C: inserted, on , by section 69 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).