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Resource Management Act 1991

Standards, policy statements, and plans - Intensification planning instruments and intensification streamlined planning process

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

You could also call this:

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

This part of the law and Part 6 of Schedule 1 explain how a special process works. This process is for certain local councils to create an IPI quickly. An IPI is a type of planning document. The process is designed to be faster than usual.

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Topics:

Environment and resources > Town planning

Housing and property > Land use

Government and voting > Local councils

80C: Application to responsible Minister for direction, or

“Asking the person in charge if you can use a quicker way to make new rules for your area”

80E: Meaning of intensification planning instrument, or

“This explains what a plan to allow more houses in cities means and what it must include.”

Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
Intensification planning instruments and intensification streamlined planning process

80DWhat this subpart and Part 6 of Schedule 1 do

This subpart and Part 6 of Schedule 1 provide a process for the preparation of an IPI by a specified territorial authority in order to achieve an expeditious planning process.

Notes

Section 80D: inserted, on 21 December 2021, by section 10 of the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 59).