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Resource Management Act 1991

Occupation of common marine and coastal area - Plan change requests and concurrent applications for coastal permits in relation to aquaculture activities

165ZS: Consideration of plan change request

You could also call this:

“How the regional council decides on requests to change plans for using shared sea areas”

When you ask for a change to a regional plan, the regional council can’t adopt your request right away. Instead, they may accept it for further consideration.

If the council accepts your request, you have 20 working days after they tell you about their decision to do a few things. If you also made an application along with your plan change request, and the council changed your request, you can either change your application or withdraw it and make a new one. If you didn’t make an application with your request, you can make one now.

Remember, the council will look at your request based on the rules in Schedule 1 of the Resource Management Act. This schedule explains how changes to plans are managed.

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Topics:

Environment and resources > Town planning

Government and voting > Local councils

165ZR: Concurrent application to be declined or treated as withdrawn if plan change request declined or withdrawn, or

“If a plan change request is rejected or withdrawn, the related application for aquaculture activity is also cancelled or withdrawn.”

165ZT: Notification of accepted plan change request, or

“The law explains when and how people are told about requests to change plans for using the sea and coast.”

Part 7A Occupation of common marine and coastal area
Plan change requests and concurrent applications for coastal permits in relation to aquaculture activities

165ZSConsideration of plan change request

The regional council—
may not adopt a plan change request under clause 25(2)(a) of Schedule 1; but
may accept a plan change request under clause 25(2)(b) of Schedule 1.

If the regional council accepts a plan change request, the person making the plan change request may, within 20 working days after being notified of the council's decision under clause 25(5) of Schedule 1,—
if a concurrent application has been lodged with the plan change request and the plan change request has been modified under clause 24 of Schedule 1,—
1. amend the concurrent application; or
2. withdraw the concurrent application and lodge a replacement concurrent application:
if a concurrent application has not been lodged with the plan change request, lodge a concurrent application.

Notes

Section 165ZS: inserted, on 1 October 2011, by section 55 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 70).