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Fast-track Approvals Bill

Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects - Process for panel consideration of substantive application - Panel report

24X: Content of panel report

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“What the panel's report must include after deciding on a project”

When a panel makes decisions about a project, they need to write a report. This report must include several important things. You need to know what the panel decided and why they made those decisions. The report also has to explain the main issues that people disagreed about and what the panel thought about these issues.

If the panel is deciding about giving permission for using land or designating an area for a special purpose, they need to include some extra information. They might also say when this permission will run out if it’s not used.

If the panel doesn’t say when the permission runs out, it will automatically end after 5 years.

Before finishing the report, the panel has to talk to two important ministers: the Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti and the Minister for Māori Development. These ministers get 5 working days to look at a draft of the report and share their thoughts. They’ll check how the decisions might affect agreements with Māori people and suggest any special conditions.

The report also explains when the permission starts. For land use, it’s when the approval begins. For designating an area, it’s when it’s added to the district plan.

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Topics:
Environment and resources > Town planning
Government and voting > Local councils
Māori affairs > Treaty of Waitangi
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Part 2 Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects
Process for panel consideration of substantive application: Panel report

24XContent of panel report

  1. The written report of a panel's decisions under section 24W —

  2. must—
    1. state the panel's decisions; and
      1. state the panel's reasons for those decisions; and
        1. include a statement of the principal issues that were in contention; and
          1. include the main findings of the panel on those issues; and
            1. if the report includes decisions on approvals sought under section 24C(3)(a) or (b) (resource consent or designation), include the matters required by clause 19 of Schedule 4 :
            2. for an approval described in section 24C(3)(a) or (b) (resource consent or designation), may specify the date on which an approval lapses unless it is given effect to by that specified date (which must be no less than 2 years after the approval commences).

              1. If no date is specified under subsection (1)(b) , the approval lapses 5 years after its commencement date.

              2. In preparing the report, a panel must consult the Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti and the Minister for Māori Development.

              3. Those Ministers must be allowed 5 working days to comment on the draft report, its assessment of each approval in relation to each relevant Treaty settlement, and any conditions relevant to that assessment, before the panel makes its decisions on the approvals sought in the substantive application.

              4. In this section, commencement date, in relation to an approval, means,—

              5. for an approval described in section 24C(3)(a) (resource consent), the date on which the approval commences under section 25D ; or
                1. for an approval described in section 24C(3)(b) (designation), the date on which the designation is included in a district plan.