Final Step(s) before Submissions Round Starts (Again)

 

While retrieving the Minutes for last Thursday’s Auckland Development Committee meeting (so I could get the Resolutions for an upcoming commentary piece) I noticed the Unitary Plan Committee agenda had come up on the Council website.

You can read the agenda below in which the Committee sets about the final updates and processes before the second Unitary Plan submission round begins.

The Unitary Plan Committee Agenda

 

A bit odd this is not going straight to the parent Auckland Development Committee but none-the-less it is being debated.

An extract from the Executive Summary, Purpose and Recommendations:

Purpose
1. The purpose of this report is to update the committee on progress with the preparation of the Summary of Decisions Requested Report (the summary report) in respect of submissions on the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan (PAUP). The report discusses the framework used to complete this task, provides some preliminary statistical information and seeks a decision from the committee in relation to the production of hard copies of the submissions and the summary report. The report also provides an update on the Auckland Unitary Plan Independent Hearings Panel (IHP) and discusses the upcoming work programme for the Unitary Plan Committee.

Executive summary
2. The PAUP was notified on 30 September 2013. Submissions closed on 28 February 2014. 8,958 submissions were received within the submission period. A further 513 late
submissions have been received. The next step in the statutory process is to notify a summary of the decisions requested in the submissions. Significant resources have been deployed to complete this task. The summary report is scheduled for notification in early June. The 30 working day further submission period will then begin.
3. The Government-appointed Auckland Unitary Plan Independent Hearings Panel (IHP) has commenced its work, and council staff have been appointed to support the IHP. Once the summary report is notified, the IHP will be in a position to finalise a schedule of pre-hearing meetings and hearings for the many topics addressed in the submissions. The detailed work programme for the Unitary Plan Committee will become clearer at that time, however this report provides a very early indication of the work that will be required.

Recommendation/s
That the Unitary Plan Committee:
a) receive the report.
b) agree to make hard copies of the Summary of Decisions Requested Report in respect of submission on the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan available in all council libraries (excluding those with insufficient display space), local board offices and the main council service centres.
c) agree to make available on request, hard copies of submissions on the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan, subject to the council’s standard printing and administration costs.

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So the next submission round is to begin around early to mid June with a 30-working day (6 weeks) period.

 

Further commentary as we approach the second submission round will occur as more information comes to hand.