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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:

"Ask to take your resource consent application straight to the Environment Court"

If you want your resource consent application to go straight to the Environment Court, you must ask the consent authority. You need to make this request after you have made your application and before a certain time limit is up. This time limit is 5 working days after the date when people can no longer make submissions on your application.

You must make your request either electronically or by filling out a special form. The form is a prescribed form, which means it is a specific form that you are required to use. You can make your request in writing on this form or you can do it electronically.

The Environment Court is where you can go if you want a judge to make a decision about your application instead of the consent authority. You can find more information about the rules that allow you to make this request in the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009.

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Part 6Resource 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).