Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill

  • enacted

Hon Dr Nick Smith

Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill

Government Bill

117—3

As reported from the committee of the whole House

Contents

Key

1 Title

2 Commencement

Part 1
Preliminary provisions, housing accords, and special housing areas

Subpart 1Preliminary provisions

3 Repeal

4 Purpose

5 Outline

6 Interpretation

7 Act binds the Crown

8 Application of provisions of Act

9 Power to amend Schedule 1

Subpart 2Provisions relating to housing accords, qualifying developments, and special housing areas

Housing accords

10 Minister and territorial authority may enter housing accord

11 Form and content of housing accord

12 Housing accord to be published

13 Intention to terminate housing accord to be publicly notified

Qualifying developments

14 Meaning of qualifying development

15 Criteria may be prescribed for qualifying developments

Special housing areas

16 Process for establishing special housing areas

17 Establishing special housing areas in district covered by housing accord

19 Disestablishing special housing areas

Part 2
Resource consents, plan changes, and variations to proposed plans relating to qualifying developments in special housing areas

Subpart 1Preliminary provisions

20 Application of Part

20A Person may elect to proceed under this Part or Resource Management Act 1991

21 Outline of this Part

22 Application of Resource Management Act 1991 and regulations made under that Act to applications, requests, decisions, etc, under this Part

23 Functions and powers in this Part to be performed or exercised by authorised agency

23A Periods excluded from certain time limits specified in this Part

Subpart 2Resource consents

Applications for resource consents

24 Applications for resource consents may be made to authorised agency

24B Accord territorial authority may require applications to be made in conjunction with requests for plan changes or variations to proposed plans

27 Making applications

28 Further information

29 Authorised agency may notify application to certain persons only

30 Hearing date and notice

31 Time limit for completing hearing

31A Deferral pending application for additional consents

31B Joint hearings by 2 or more authorised agencies

Decisions on applications and commencement of resource consents

32 Consideration of applications

33 Determination of applications for certain activities

34 Decision on application

35 Conditions of resource consents

36 Conditions of subdivision consents

37 Decisions on applications to be in writing and include reasons

38 Notification of decision

39 Time limit for notifying decision

40 When resource consent commences

40 When resource consent commences

Subdivisions

41 Application of Part 10 of Resource Management Act 1991

42 Consent notices and completion certificates

43 Approval of survey plans by authorised agency

44 Restrictions on deposit of survey plan

45 Subdivision by the Crown

46 Other provisions relating to survey plans

47 Covenant against transfer of allotments

48 Survey plan approved subject to grant or reservation of easements

Additional provisions relating to resource consents

48A Effect of grant of resource consent under this Act

Additional provisions relating to resource consents

49 Nature and duration of resource consent

50 Lapsing of resource consent

51 Change, cancellation, or review of consent condition on application by consent holder

52 No public notification, submissions, or hearings on review

53 Matters to be considered in review

53 Matters to be considered in review

54 Decision on review of consent conditions

54 Decision on review of consent conditions

55 Minor corrections of resource consents

56 Surrender of consent

57 Certificates of compliance

59 Monitoring of resource consents

Subpart 3Requests for plan changes and variations to proposed plans

60 Application of subpart

60A Subpart overrides restriction on amendments or variations to proposed Auckland combined plan

61 Requests for changes to plan or variation to proposed plan

Process for request for plan change or variation to proposed plan where adjacent owners give prior approval

62 Process for requests where adjacent owners give prior approval

Process for request for plan change or variation to proposed plan where adjacent owners do not give prior approval

63 Application of sections 64 to 71

64 Further information may be required and request may be modified

65 Authorised agency to consider request

65A Effect of decision on concurrent application

66 Preparation of plan change or variation, notification, and submissions

66A Submission to expand land covered by request must be notified

67 Hearings

68 Decision on request

68B Consideration of plan change request and concurrent application

Time limit for decision, requirement for public notification, and effect of decision

69 Decision to be given and notified within 130 working days after making of request

70 Effect of notifying decision to approve plan change or variation

Adoption of request for plan change or variation to proposed plan by authorised agency

71 Authorised agency may adopt request for plan change or variation to proposed plan

Concurrent plan change or variation processes

72 Interface between concurrent plan change or variation processes under this Act and Resource Management Act 1991

Subpart 4Other provisions of Resource Management Act 1991 that apply in relation to applications, etc, under subparts 2 and 3

73 Other provisions of Resource Management Act 1991 applying

74 Administrative charges

Subpart 5Provisions relating to rights of appeal and objection

75 Limited right of appeal and objection

76 Right of appeal against resource consent decisions relating to qualifying developments of 4 or more storeys

77 No review of decisions unless right of appeal exercised

78 Rights of objection

79 Procedure for making and hearing objections

80 Decisions on objections

81 No right to appeal against decisions on objections

Subpart 6Miscellaneous

Functions and powers of chief executive

82 Chief executive has powers of consent authority

83 Delegation of functions and powers of chief executive

84 Transfer of functions and powers of chief executive

85A Effect of performance and exercise of functions and powers by chief executive

ATA panel

86 Accord territorial authority may appoint panel

87 Delegation of functions and powers to ATA panel

Regulations

88 Regulations

Transitional provisions

89 Transitional provisions

Schedule 1
Regions and districts that have significant housing supply and affordability issues for purposes of Act

Schedule 1A
Periods excluded from time limits specified in Part 2

Schedule 2
Transitional provisions

Legislative history


The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: