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Planning Bill

Key roles - Functions and powers of central and local government - Functions, powers, and responsibilities of territorial authorities

187: Further monitoring requirements

You could also call this:

"Checking what councils are doing to look after our area"

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The government wants to change the law to make territorial authorities do more monitoring. You will be able to see the results of this monitoring on the authority's website every 5 years. The authority will also keep information at its offices that you can look at. The information will help you understand what the authority is doing and how you can get involved. It will include things like the authority's plan for the area and any changes to it. You will also be able to see decisions made about submissions on the plan and records of resource consents. The authority will keep a record of complaints about breaches of the law or plan and how they were dealt with. They will also keep records of natural hazards and other information they have gathered. This will help the authority make good decisions and you will be able to see what they are doing.

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Part 5Key roles
Functions and powers of central and local government: Functions, powers, and responsibilities of territorial authorities

187Further monitoring requirements

  1. Every territorial authority must, at intervals of not more than 5 years, compile and publish on its internet site a review of the results of the monitoring undertaken under this section and section 186.

  2. A territorial authority must also keep, in reasonably accessible form at all of its offices, the information relevant to administering its plan, monitoring resource consents applying in the district, and current issues relating to the environment, so that members of the public—

  3. are better informed of their duties and of the functions and responsibilities of the territorial authority; and
    1. are able to participate effectively under this Act.
      1. The information required by subsection (2) includes—

      2. copies of the operative and proposed plan of the district, including proposed designations and any operative and proposed changes to those documents; and
        1. copies of documents or other material incorporated by reference in a plan; and
          1. copies of decisions relating to submissions on a proposed plan; and
            1. copies of the operative and proposed plans for the other territorial authorities in the region of which its district forms a part: and
              1. copies of every national instrument; and
                1. a record of the following received by, or granted by, the territorial authority in relation to the district:
                  1. the applications for resource consents; and
                    1. the decisions made under sections 115, 123 to 130, and 284; and
                      1. the resource consents granted within the district; and
                        1. the resource consents transferred; and
                        2. a summary of the written complaints received in the preceding 5 years on alleged breaches of the Act or a plan and how each complaint was dealt with; and
                          1. records of natural hazards, to the extent that the territorial authority considers appropriate for the effective discharge of its functions and responsibilities; and
                            1. any other information the territorial authority has gathered under this section.