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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents

87AAC: Meaning of fast-track application

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“A fast-track application is a special way to ask for permission to do certain activities quickly, but it can stop being fast-track in some situations.”

A fast-track application is a special type of request for a resource consent. You can use this if you’re asking for permission to do a controlled activity that needs consent under a district plan. However, this doesn’t apply to subdividing land. To make a fast-track application, you need to provide an email address as your contact.

Your application might stop being fast-track if:

  • The consent authority decides to notify the public or a limited group about your application
  • There needs to be a hearing about your application
  • You tell the consent authority when you submit your application that you don’t want to use the fast-track process

If your application stops being fast-track because of public notification or a hearing, it’s okay if you haven’t included all the information mentioned in section 88(2)(c). However, the consent authority can still ask you for this information under section 92.

When an application is no longer fast-track, it follows the normal processing rules. The time periods for these rules are counted from when they would have started if your application wasn’t fast-track. They don’t restart when your application changes from fast-track to normal.

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Part 6 Resource consents

87AACMeaning of fast-track application

  1. An application is a fast-track application if the application—

  2. is for a resource consent for a controlled activity (but no other activity) that requires consent under a district plan (other than a subdivision of land); and
    1. includes an address for service that is an electronic address.

      1. An application described in subsection (1) ceases to be a fast-track application if—

      2. a consent authority gives public or limited notification of the application; or
        1. a hearing is to be held for the application; or
          1. at the time the application is lodged, the applicant notifies the consent authority that the applicant wishes to opt out of the fast track process.

            1. To avoid doubt, if an application ceases to be a fast-track application under subsection (2)(a) or (b),—

            2. the application is not incomplete by reason only that it does not include the information referred to in section 88(2)(c); but
              1. a consent authority may, under section 92, request the applicant to provide any of the information referred to in section 88(2)(c).

                1. To avoid doubt, when an application ceases to be a fast-track application,—

                2. the application becomes subject to the standard processing requirements (including any time periods for doing anything) under this Act that would have applied if the application had not been a fast-track application; and
                  1. those time periods are deemed to have been running from the time they would have begun if this section had not applied and are not reset as from the time the application ceases to be fast-track.

                    Notes
                    • Section 87AAC: inserted, on , by section 134 of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).
                    • Section 87AAC(1): replaced, on , by section 24 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 30).