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165ZS: Consideration of plan change request
or “How the regional council decides on requests to change plans for using shared sea areas”
You could also call this:

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

When a plan change request is accepted, it needs to be publicly notified along with any related application. The time for this notification starts on a specific day, depending on the situation.

If you’ve submitted an application with your plan change request, the 4-month period for notification begins when you tell the regional council in writing that you won’t change or take back your applications.

If you’ve changed your application or replaced it with a new one, the period starts when the council tells you that your changed or new application is complete and you don’t need any other resource consents.

If you submit an application after your plan change request is accepted, the period begins when the council confirms that your application is complete and you don’t need any other resource consents.

When the council notifies people about the plan change request, they must also tell them about any related application.

The rules for notifying people about plan changes also apply to notifying them about plan change requests and related applications. The council will treat your request and application as if they were proposing to change their own plans.

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Next up: 165ZU: Submissions on plan change request and concurrent application

or “The council must summarise what people say about changes to plans and applications, but no one can make extra comments on the applications.”
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Part 7A Occupation of common marine and coastal area
Plan change requests and concurrent applications for coastal permits in relation to aquaculture activities

165ZTNotification of accepted plan change request

  1. For the purposes of publicly notifying an accepted plan change request and its concurrent application under clause 26(b)(i) of Schedule 1, the period of 4 months specified in that subparagraph begins on the day as determined in accordance with subsection (2), (3), or (4), as the case may require.

  2. If a concurrent application has been lodged, the period begins on the day on which the regional council receives written confirmation from the applicant that the applications will not be amended or withdrawn.

  3. If a concurrent application has been lodged but has been amended, or withdrawn and a replacement application lodged, the period begins on the day on which the regional council confirms to the applicant that the application as amended or the replacement application is complete and that no other resource consents are required.

  4. If a concurrent application has not been lodged but is lodged after the plan change request is accepted by the regional council, the period begins on the day on which the regional council confirms to the applicant that the application is complete and that no other resource consents are required.

  5. Notification of a plan change request under subsection (1) must also include notification of the concurrent application.

  6. For the purposes of subsection (5), clause 5 of Schedule 1 applies with all necessary modifications and as if references to a plan or regional coastal plan were references to a plan change request and its related concurrent application and as if the reference to a proposed change in clause 5(3)(b) of that schedule included a reference to its concurrent application.

Notes
  • Section 165ZT: inserted, on , by section 55 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 70).