BORA Resource Management and Electricity Legislation Amendment Bill [pdf, 32 KB]
...that the majority membership of hearings panels are "accredited" for hearing resource consents, private plan changes, designation and heritage order hearings: • empowers all hearings panels with more inquisitorial powers; • focuses appeals in the Environment Court on testing the merits of the first (local authority) hearing; • provides new mechanisms for non-local decision making that build on the existing ministerial call-in processes; • streamlines the plan making...