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Council welcomes resource consents assessment
Wednesday 10 June, 2013
Council welcomes resource consents assessment
The Christchurch City Council has today welcomed the Environment Minister Amy Adams asking the Ministry to carry out an independent diagnostic assessment of the Council’s resource management planning and resource consenting functions.
The purpose of the assessment is to identify whether the Council is sufficiently resourced and has suitably robust Resource Management processes in place.
This is a non-statutory assessment and Ministry staff will meet with Council staff and other agencies and stakeholders over the next few days to gather information. They will prepare a report for the Minister to be delivered in the last week of July 2013.
Acting Chief Executive Jane Parfitt says, " We welcome this independent assessment and look forward to receiving any recommendations.”
The Council’s resource consents team operates separately from the building consent team and does not fall under the jurisdiction of IANZ. The volume of resource consent applications received by the Council is significantly smaller than building consent applications and it has consistently processed these within statutory timeframes.
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