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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents - Streamlining decision-making on resource consents

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

You could also call this:

“You can ask for a judge to decide about your building plans instead of the local council.”

If you want your resource consent application to be decided by the Environment Court instead of the usual consent authority, you need to ask for this. You must make this request to the consent authority that would normally handle your application.

You can only ask for this during a specific time period. This period starts on the day you submit your application. It ends five working days after the deadline for people to make submissions about your application.

When you make this request, you have to use a special form. You can fill out this form electronically or on paper. The form you use must be the official one that has been approved for this purpose.

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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM2414715.

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Environment and resources > Town planning
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Part 6 Resource consents
Streamlining decision-making on resource consents

87DRequest for application to go directly to Environment Court

  1. The applicant must request the relevant consent authority to allow the application to be determined by the Environment Court instead of by the consent authority.

  2. The applicant must make the request in the period—

  3. starting on the day on which the application is made; and
    1. ending 5 working days after the date on which the period for submissions on the application closes.

      1. The applicant must make the request electronically or in writing on the prescribed form.

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