6 Sept 2017
BUNNINGS LIMITED v THE AUCKLAND UNITARY PLAN INDEPENDENT HEARING PANEL [2017] NZHC 2141
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 2141
- Court
- High Court
The Court allowed the consent settlements: it found the Panel's recommendation for arterial roads in the Redhills Precinct lacked adequate scope and set aside the Panel decision (restoring a right of appeal to the Environment Court); it accepted the Council had erred in its treatment of prohibited activity status in the Waitākere Ranges and ordered the agreed amendments prohibiting subdivision in specified sensitive areas subject to notice to affected submitters under s156(1); and it accepted that the Samson rezoning was not supportable on the evidence and ordered rezoning to Business – Mixed…
- Scope of submissions (lgatpa s144)
- Appeal rights (lgatpa s156)
- Prohibited activity status
- Zoning and special character overlays
- Statutory duties under waitakere ranges heritage area act
- Judicial review (judicature amendment act s4(2))