[2022] NZEnvC 076 Pipers Limited Partnership v Auckland Council [pdf, 537 KB]
...objectives and policies could encourage a range of activities in the rural zone that had not been intended. This could include the development of retirement villages and other larger scale residential developments that could give rise to greater environmental effects in rural areas, such as on rural character, landscape and amenity values, as well as having the potential to create reverse sensitivity issues if more intensive residential development took place. Plan Change 20 (Pla...