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Pre Hearing Facilitation and Hearing Process

As at 18 June 2008

New item! icon.  Revised Hearings Timetable and Variation Process Letter

Environment Canterbury is revising the timeframe for the hearing of submissions on Proposed Change No. 1. The reason for the delay is:

  • to allow for an application for judicial review in the High Court by National Investment Trust on the composition of the Hearing Panel to be determined, and;
  • to allow for a variation, as described in the PDF download icon. letter to submitters file size icon.  29kB, to be notified.

The hearings scheduled to commence on the 4th July are deferred and will not take place until early 2009. Consequently, the dates for the provision of evidence and legal submissions are no longer required to be met.

Except for new dates the procedural arrangements for the hearings remain unaltered.

New item! icon.  PDF download icon.  Letter to Submitters - 18 June 2008 - Revised Hearings Timetable and Variation Process file size icon.  29kB


Legal Opinion on Hearing Process 26 May 2008

PDF file.   Legal Opinion on Hearing Process - 26 May 2008  file size icon.  81kB

 

As at 1 May 2008

Determination by Hearing Panel Letter

PDF download icon Letter to Submitters 1 May Hearing Panel Process Decision file size icon 27kB

1. Pre Hearing Facilitation Dates

All  Pre Hearing meetings will take place from 9.00am-12.30pm at Environment Canterbury, 58 Kilmore Street, Christchurch.

Mon 21st April (Completed) ‘Presenting to the Panel’
‘Exchange of evidence’

Mon 28th April (Completed) ‘Growth Management issues’ (incl. Policies 1, 4 & 6)
‘Changing circumstances’ (incl. Policy 15)

Fri 2nd May   ‘Local Councils and PC1’ (incl. Policy 12 and 14)
‘Integrating infrastructure’ (incl. Policy 9)
‘Whole RPS and Other Plans’

Mon 5th May   ‘Intensification issues’ (incl. Policy 2)
‘Key Activity Centre issues’ (incl. Policy 5)

Fri 9th May   ‘Reverse sensitivity issues’ (incl. Policy 10)
‘Rural residential issues’ (incl. Policy 13)

Mon 12th May   ‘Outline Development Plans’ (incl. Policy 8)
‘Net density issues’ (incl. Policy 11)
‘Urban design issues’ (incl. Policy 7)

Fri 16th May   ‘Business land’ (incl. Policy 3)

2. Hearing Process Key Dates

Friday 23 May   Officers Reports on Submissions Available
Hard copy posted, disks available at Customer Services and copy on Environment Canterbury website.

Monday 23 June  Hearing Panel requests all evidence, including expert evidence, to be called by any submitter be provided in writing (email copy preferred) to Environment Canterbury no later than 5.00pm 23 June.

Note : It will take some days to allow the evidence to be loaded onto Environment Canterbury’s website and made available on disk to all parties.

Thursday 26 June  Hearing Panel direction that any expert evidence to be called by any submitter be provided in writing to the Council no later than 26 June 2008.

Monday 30 June  Hearing Panel requests that any legal submissions on behalf of any submitter be provided in writing (email copy preferred) to the Council.

Friday 4 July  Hearing commences

July/ August  Hearing of submissions.

Friday 28 November  Decisions on submissions available

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