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Planning Bill

Planning consents - Notification, submissions, and hearings - Hearings

134: Consent authority may refer to conference or mediation

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"Consent authority can ask you to discuss your planning application at a meeting or with a helper"

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If you apply for a planning consent, the consent authority might ask you to go to a conference. They can also ask some of the people who have submitted their thoughts on your application to attend. The conference is to help clarify things or resolve issues. The consent authority can also send your application to mediation, which means a neutral person will help you and the submitters talk things through. You will have to follow the rules when you go to a conference or mediation, and the consent authority will make sure this happens.

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Part 4Planning consents
Notification, submissions, and hearings: Hearings

134Consent authority may refer to conference or mediation

  1. A consent authority may, in accordance with the prescribed requirements, invite or require an applicant for a planning consent and some or all submitters to attend a conference for the purpose of—

  2. clarifying a matter or issue; or
    1. facilitating the resolution of an issue.

      1. A consent authority may, in accordance with the prescribed requirements, refer to mediation a person who has made an application for a planning consent and some or all submitters.

      2. A conference or mediation must be conducted in accordance with the prescribed requirements.