The scale of the work around the Auckland Unitary Plan is unprecedented in New Zealand, with over 13,000 submissions, 10,000 pieces of evidence and 249 days of hearings over almost two years.
Starting this Wednesday up to seven days of committee meetings will begin. The Auckland Development Committee will consider the Panel’s recommendations and then make recommendations to the council’s Governing Body, which will finalise the decisions.
Meetings open to the public
Council’s decisions will be fully transparent in meetings open to the public and available for viewing on the council's live streamingservice.
Council staff have reviewed recommendations
To assist the Council in its decision-making, council staff have undertaken a full review of the Panel’s recommendations and recommended to the council which of the Panel’s recommendations to accept or reject.
The council’s recommendations are set out in the boxes at the end of each section.
There are four parts to the report:
Part A – where council staff are recommending that the Panel’s recommendations are accepted in full.
Part B – where the Panel has made recommendations that represent a policy shift from the council’s position and staff are supporting these recommendations
Part C - looks at the where, in some cases, the Panel has made recommendations that represent a policy shift from the council’s position and the staff are not supporting these recommendations. Where there is a rejection detailed analysis, reasons and alternative solutions are provided.
Part D - where staff have identified technical matters that may be errors and recommend rejection so they can be fixed to make the Plan useable in future.