Resource Management Act 1991

Standards, policy statements, and plans - Streamlined planning process

80CB: Local authority may apply to use same streamlined planning process to progress matters in different instruments

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"Councils can ask to use a faster planning process for more than one plan."

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If you are a local authority, you can ask the Minister to use a faster planning process for one planning document. You can also ask to use this same faster process for another planning document. You make this request to the Minister under section 80C, and you must have already asked to use the faster process for the first document under section 80CA or clause 5(1) of Schedule 3C.

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Environment and resources > Town planningHousing and property > Land useGovernment and voting > Local councils

80CA: Notice to responsible Minister for direction relating to listed planning instrument, or

"Telling the Minister you need help with a planning rule"

80D: What this subpart and Part 6 of Schedule 1 do, or

"This part explains how certain councils can quickly make new rules for housing and building."

Part 5Standards, policy statements, and plans
Streamlined planning process

80CBLocal authority may apply to use same streamlined planning process to progress matters in different instruments

A local authority that notifies the responsible Minister for a direction to prepare a listed planning instrument using the streamlined planning process (under section 80CA or clause 5(1) of Schedule 3C) may also apply to the Minister (under section 80C) for a direction to prepare another planning instrument using that same streamlined planning process.

Notes

Section 80CB: inserted, on 21 August 2025, by section 23 of the Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 41).