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Planning Bill

Planning consents - Notification, submissions, and hearings - Submissions on applications

131: Submissions on applications

You could also call this:

"Having a say on planning applications"

You can make a submission about a planning application if it is publicly notified and you are a qualifying resident of the district. You can also make a submission if you are not a qualifying resident, but you are an affected person under section 128. If the application is only notified to certain people, those people can make a submission.

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Part 4Planning consents
Notification, submissions, and hearings: Submissions on applications

131Submissions on applications

If an application for a planning consent is publicly notified, the following persons may make a submission about it to the consent authority:
a qualifying resident of the district to which the application relates:
a person who is not a qualifying resident of the district to which the application relates if that person is an affected person under section 128.

If an application for a planning consent is the subject of targeted notification, a person served with notice of the application may make a submission about it to the consent authority.