Condition fulfilment
Will you be able to give effect to the consent?
Our planners can assist you with fulfilling any condition requirements that may have been included on your resource consent. We can also help with applying to change or cancel a consent condition in some circumstances, helping you simplify your development process even further.
What is a condition and why do I need to fulfill it?
Conditions include standards, terms, restrictions, or prohibitions that are specified in a consent after the written decision to grant the consent. Section 108 of the RMA allows councils to include conditions on resource consents.
Conditions can only be imposed on a resource consent if:
- the applicant agrees to the condition;
- or the condition is directly connected to an effect of the activity on the environment;
- or the condition is directly connected to an applicable rule in a plan, NES, or wastewater environmental performance standard;
- or the condition relates to administrative matters that are essential for the efficient implementation of the relevant resource consent.
Conditions may relate to the design or appearance of structures, landscaping, hours of operation, restrictions on the amount of resource use, the layout of a site, or any number of other things.
Getting the conditions right is essential
Specifying conditions of consent that are effective and enforceable is essential to the operation or development of an activity. Conditions also ensure any adverse effects on the environment are avoided, remedied, or mitigated and ensure that any measures proposed by an applicant to offset any adverse effects are implemented.
Should you need to vary or change consent conditions, our planners can apply to a change or cancel a condition of consent in most situations.
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