Plan Change 23
Daylight and solar panels
Notified Date: 25 September 2010
Operative Date: 12 March 2012
At its meeting on 7 April 2011 Council resolved to engage an independent Commissioner to hear and make decisions on submissions on proposed Council Plan Change 23 to the NRMP. A hearing was held on 15 July 2011 and the Council publicly notified its decisions on Saturday 5 November 2011.
A copy of the Commissioner’s Report on Hearing and Decisions on Submissions along with the public notice of decisions is available for download under the ‘Document Library’ section below.
Every submitter and further submitter was served with a copy of these decisions and under Cl.14 of the First Schedule of the RMA any submitter or further submitter was able appeal a provision or matter that was the subject of their submission to the Environment Court within 30 working days.
No appeals were lodged in relation to Plan Change 23 and, at its meeting on 23 February 2012, the Council resolved to approve the plan change and make it operative on 12 March 2012.
Background
Plan change 23 proposes to clarify the daylight provisions in Appendix 15 of the Nelson Resource Management Plan by amending text and diagrams.
Allowing for non-compliance with the daylight provisions is proposed for up to seven square metres of solar panels on the northern boundary of a site. A 0.5 metre encroachment into the maximum height provisions is also proposed.
Public information
Further submissions to Nelson Resource Management Plan Proposed Plan Changes are public information. Your further submission will be included in reports, which are available to the public and the media.
Document Library
- Plan Change 23 - Plan Change Committee Minutes - 17 August 2010 (103KB PDF)
- Plan Change 23 - Public Notice of Proposed Plan Change - September 2010 (29KB PDF)
- Plan Change 23 - Proposed Plan Amendments - September 2010 (182KB PDF)
- Plan Change 23 - Section 32 Report - September 2010 (86KB PDF)
- Public Notice of Submissions and Inviting Further Submissions - January 2011 (25KB PDF)
- Plan Change 23 - Summary of Submissions Decisions Requested - 22 January 2011 (196KB PDF)
- Plan Change 23 - S42A Planning Officer’s Report - July 2011 (805KB PDF)
- Plan Change 23 - Hearing Commissioner Decision - 19 September 2011 (361KB PDF)
- Plan Change 23 - Public Notice on Decisions - November 2011 (50KB PDF)
- Plan Change 23 - Public Notice of Operative Date - 3 March 2012 (37KB PDF)
If you would like further information regarding this Plan Change, please contact the Environmental Planning Administrator on 03 546 0200 or environmental.planning@ncc.govt.nz.