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NGO meeting, Wellington 29 June 2004
- Avoiding vexatious submissions
- appropriate assessment of submissions required however
- how to determine "vexatious" submissions
- Need for National Policy Statements to guide local government, e.g. Historic Heritage (section 6) notified vs. non-notified
- Addressing inconsistencies between local authorities
- Require local authorities to include all information known relating to land, ie. Land Information Memorandum (LIM) reports to include archaeological site information. Reconcile with silent files, wahi tapu etc
- Streamlining plan preparation
- process is very lengthy for some plans
- if process was faster then it would reduce the number of variations and plan changes
- concern over the incremental review of district plans
- provision of resources to local authorities to prepare plans
- Resource consent decision making
- use of councillors on resource consent panels
- transparency issues
- training
- accountability
- understanding of tangata whenua issues, wahi tapu, tikanga Maori
- Decision making at the Environment Court
- understanding of tikanga Maori, wahi tapu, tangata whenua issues
- Professor Skelton's recommendations 2004 - report provided
- Recognition of infrastructure/essential services without compromising other matters in Part II/national importance
- Encourage national agencies and national development/infrastructure procedures/agencies to develop consultation processes (strong national interest groups)
- Resource consent applications are often woefully inadequate in the amount of information they provide - inadequate Assessment of Environmental Effects. Councils should not accept inadequate applications
- Need for regional heritage plans/identification of heritage of
regional value
- Regional councils have a role to play in heritage protection/advocacy. This role needs to be clarified
- Expansion national heritage incentive fund - more money
Last updated: 6 May 2008
