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WCC Planning - Error correction process

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From: Wellington RatePayer

Dear Wellington City Council,

If a WCC Planner incorrectly includes in a consent constraints above and beyond the rules in the operational district plan, what is the process to remediate the overreach?

consider for example a context where a subdivision land use resource application was applied for and was consented for a dwelling location in a Zone where residential buildings are Unrestricted, and the published District Plan’s Standards permit 8m high dwellings, but the approving planners includes a statement to the effect that “the proposed house may not be higher than 5m” - clearly with no basis in any statement in the operational district plan, what is its enforceability?

Furthermore, if having no legality, and therefore an unfounded constraint, what is the process to follow to have it removed? And how would the submitter retrieve costs for advice, meetings, request, and following this up to completion? What about the time for lost months waiting for this to be corrected?

Yours faithfully,

Wellington RatePayer

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Would you agree your organisation has had sufficient time to assemble the information needed to answer the original query in detail, in an assistive manner?

Looking forward to an informative and useful answer. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Wellington RatePayer

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Tçnâ koe Wellington RatePayer

 

This response was answered on 30 August 2024.  Last year we received one
request from you on 22 July 2024, three requests on 4 August 2024 and
another three on 8 August 2024.

 

The requests were logged as individual requests as follows:

 

o IRC-6800 – Planning Department: Consideration of Neighbours on consent
submittals
o IRC-6857 – Clarification of method of applying District Plan Rules and
Standards
o IRC-6858 – District Plan – Rural Zone and Rules Standards
o IRC-6859 – WCC District Plan: Clarification as to Permitted
Cultivation
o IRC-6884 – WCC District Plan: Definition of Tree
o IRC-6886 – WCC Planning – Error correction process
o IRC-6887 – LGOIMA Record Search Capabilities

 

The Senior Advisor (SA) who was responsible for responding to the above
requests ‘bundled’ the responses together, noting this decision in both
the letter and her email of response. Unfortunately, the SA was unaware
that requests from FYI.org.nz generated individual emails per request, and
therefore six of the seven requests ‘appear’ unanswered.

 

Our apologies for the confusion.

 

Nga mihi

 

Danika Morris-Brown

Senior Advisor Official Information

Ara Whaimana | Strategy and Governance

Te Kaunihera o Pôneke | Wellington City Council 
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