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Combined plan and other matters - National environment plans - Evaluation reports and justification reports

110: Failure to properly prepare evaluation report or justification report

You could also call this:

"What happens if someone doesn't prepare a report properly when making a plan?"

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If you think a proposed plan is not good enough, you can challenge it. You can say it does not follow the rules in section 106 or 107, or clause 10, 11, or 12 of Schedule 3 of the Planning Act 2025. You must make your challenge in a submission on the proposed plan, following the rules in Schedule 3 of the Planning Act 2025. When someone is hearing your submission or appeal, they can look at whether the plan follows the rules. This means they can consider the matters in section 106 or 107, even if you did not make your challenge in the right way. You can make your challenge if you think the evaluation report or justification report is not prepared properly. The rules about challenging a proposed plan are important to follow. If you want to challenge a plan, you must do it in the right way, by making a submission on the proposed plan.

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Environment and resources > Town planning

109: Requirements for further justification reports, or

"When to write a new report for big changes to a plan"

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"Rules to follow if a plan limits your land use"

Part 3Combined plan and other matters
National environment plans: Evaluation reports and justification reports

110Failure to properly prepare evaluation report or justification report

A proposed plan or any provision in it—
may be challenged on the grounds that section 106 or 107 or clause 10, 11, or 12 of Schedule 3 of the Planning Act 2025 have not been complied with; but
may only be challenged in a submission on the proposed plan made in accordance with Schedule 3 of the Planning Act 2025.

Subsection (1) does not prevent a person who is hearing a submission or an appeal on a proposed plan from having regard to the matters in section 106 or 107.