Notification of Summary of Decisions Requested
Whangarei District Council gives notice that it has prepared a summary of decisions requested by persons making submissions on the following proposed plan change:
Plan Change 2: General Amendments (PC2)
Plan Change 2: General Amendments proposes to amend various provisions throughout the Whangārei District Plan to address technical issues and inconsistencies that have been identified and seeks to retain the policy intent of the Whangārei District Plan as much as possible.
The proposed amendments are intended to provide clarity, consistency, improve user experience and interpretation, and address anomalies, gaps, and errors.
You can read more about the plan change and view original submissions by following the links below:
Plan Change 2: General Amendments
Plan Change 2: General Amendments - original submissions received
Further submissions closed at 4:00pm on Wednesday 2 October 2024.
Plan Change 2: General Amendments - further submissions received
Public inspection
The summary of decisions requested may be inspected from 18 September 2024 onwards on this website.
Plan Change 2: General Amendments
It will also be available for printing upon request at:
- Te Iwitahi (civic centre), 9 Rust Avenue, Whangārei
- Ruakākā Service Centre, Takutai Place, Ruakākā
- Whangārei Central Library, Rust Avenue, Whangārei.
Please contact our District Plan Department if you have any questions.
Further submissions
No later than 10 working days after the date on which this public notice is given, any of the following persons may make a further submission on the plan change:
- Any person representing a relevant aspect of the public interest; and
- Any person who has an interest in the proposed plan change greater than the interest that the general public has; and
- Whangarei District Council
A further submission given must be limited to a matter in support of or in opposition to the relevant submission made under Clause 6 or 6A to Schedule 1 to the Resource Management Act 1991.
The person making a further submission must within five (5) working days of making the further submission to Council, serve a copy of the further submission on the submitter to which the further submission relates.
The further submission must be made in the form prescribed in Form 6 of Schedule 1 to the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Regulations 2003.
Public participation process
The process for public participation in the consideration of the proposal under the Act is as follows:
- After the closing date for submissions, Council will prepare a summary of the submissions and this summary will be publicly notified.
- There will be an opportunity to make a further submission in support of, or in opposition to, the submissions already made.
- If any person making a submission asks to be heard in support of his or her submission, a hearing will be held.
- Whangarei District Council must give its decision on the proposal (including its reasons for accepting or rejecting submissions).
- Any person who has made a submission has the right to appeal the decision on the proposal to the Environment Court.
This notice is given pursuant to Clause 7 of the First Schedule of the Resource Management Act 1991.