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Resource Management Act 1991

Standards, policy statements, and plans - Local authority policy statements and plans - Amendment of NPS-UD

77S: Amendment of NPS-UD

You could also call this:

“Changes to rules about building heights and houses in cities”

The government has made some changes to a rule called Policy 3. They’ve added the word “at” in one part and replaced another part completely.

The person in charge of the environment, called the Minister for the Environment, can make more changes to these rules. But first, they need to talk to the person in charge of housing, called the Minister of Housing.

The Minister for the Environment can make changes if they think it’s needed because of a new law called the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021. They can do this to fix any problems between the old rules and the new law, to change what “planning decision” means in the old rules, or to make it clearer how the old rules and the new law work together.

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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=LMS633989.

Topics:

Environment and resources > Town planning

Housing and property > Land use

77R: Further requirements about application of section 77O(j), or

“Extra rules for deciding if something special needs protection from more houses and buildings”

77T: Review of financial contributions provisions, or

“Local councils can change rules about money contributions for new buildings in their area plans.”

Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
Local authority policy statements and plans: Amendment of NPS-UD

77SAmendment of NPS-UD

Policy 3 in the NPS-UD is amended by,—
in paragraph (c), after “building heights of”, inserting “at”; and
replacing paragraph (d) with:

The Minister for the Environment, after consulting the Minister of Housing, may amend the NPS-UD to make any changes that the Minister for the Environment is satisfied are required as a result of the enactment of the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 to—
remove an inconsistency or a potential inconsistency between the NPS-UD and that Act; or
amend or replace the definition of planning decision in the NPS-UD; or
otherwise clarify the interrelationship between the NPS-UD and that Act.

Notes

Section 77S: inserted, on 21 December 2021, by section 9 of the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 59).