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  Papakura District Council

Resource (Land Use) Consents

Applications for Resource (Land Use) Consents can occasionally be complex and you may decide to appoint a resource management specialist to help you. The Council has provided the following information for use as a guide only.

Before applying for a Resource (Land Use) Consent, you need to consider if your proposal complies with the Council’s District Plan. If it doesn’t, you have two choices:

  1. Amend your proposal to ensure that it complies with the District Plan; or

  2. Apply for a Resource Consent.


What is a Resource Consent?

Why do I need a Resource Consent?

Application for a Resource Consent

How do I apply for a Resource Consent?

How long does it take?

Non-Notified Applications

Notified Applications

How is a decision made?

 


What is Resource (Land Use) Consent?

A Resource Consent is written approval from the Council to use your land in a way that does not comply with the District Plan, or is listed in the District Plan as an activity specifically requiring Resource Consent.

The District Plan, amongst other things, is a book of rules for particular activities and developments for the Papakura District Council. The Council is required to have a District Plan under the Resource Management Act (RMA) 1991.


Why do I need Resource Consent?

The Resource Management Act promotes the sustainable management of natural and physical resources. If you need to apply for a Resource Consent, it’s generally because your proposal is viewed to have the potential of negatively impacting the environment (which can include people, vegetation, buildings and structures).


Application for a Resource (Land Use) Consent

Available for download is a  Resource Consent Application Form and a Resource Consent Application Guide. Please note, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view these documents. If you do not have a copy installed, you can download it here.

Before applying for a Resource Consent, you should speak with one of the Council’s Resource Management Planners. A pre-application meeting will confirm whether you need a Resource (Land Use) Consent. These meetings can be a useful way of considering issues before the application commenced, particularly for large or complex developments. To make an appointment, contact our Customer Services Centre or telephone 09 977 8914. 

If you do need to apply for a Resource Consent, the meeting will help to:

  • Identify the type and indicative costs required

  • Explain the resource consent process

  • Clarify and identify any information you will need to include with your application (for example hazardous and contaminated sites information, geotechnical investigations or stormwater management information) 

  • Identify what specialist information is to be provided

  • Establish whether any types of modelling or risk analysis needs to be undertaken - including any assumptions 

  • Determine if a baseline assessment should be undertaken. This is the consideration of the adverse effects of an activity or structure that could reasonably be expected to be developed on the property against the effects of the proposal

  • Identify other properties that could be affected by the proposal and whether any consultation will be required

  • Identify whether the application may be publicly notified, notified to a limited number of people or non-notified

  • Identify potential financial contributions

By the end of the meeting, you should know the:

  • appropriate consent(s) to apply for, and whether other consents are likely to be required from the Auckland Regional Council

  • relevant issues and the scope and detail of the information required to support your application(s)

  • properties likely to be affected and the degree of consultation required, including whether the application is likely to be notified to a limited number of people, or publicly notified.

  • procedures the application will go through; i.e. in determining whether the application will be notified or not and the criteria for non-notification

  •  fee required to be deposited with the application

Processing a Resource Consent application is generally simpler and faster if you have already had a pre-application meeting with the Council. If you lodge an application that is incomplete, it may not be accepted for processing. The Council will advise what information is required before it can commence processing your application.

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