The notification decisions that the Council makes on consent applications decides on who gets to particpate in the consent. This is done against legal criteria under the the Resource Management Act 1991.
Generally, we can only publicly notify an application if:
the adverse effects on the environment are more than minor, or
there are special circumstances.
Where our community has significant interest in an application, we are sharing the relevant information that we're assessing and our decisions. You can then see what we are considering through the process.
For these applications we have either:
yet to make a decison on notification, or
decided to process the application non notified or limited notified to identified persons only - as they didn't meet the legal test for public notification.
