District plan submissions

Privacy Act and Official Information Act
Make a submission
Make a further submission

Privacy Act and Official Information Act

The information being collected is under the Resource Management Act 1991. The information will be held by the department in its name office. It will also be available at public counters, libraries and on the council website.

By taking part in this public submission process submitters will, for the purposes of the Official Information Act 1982, be understood to have waived privacy interests in their submission.

Submitters are also reminded that the information supplied in written submissions may be personal information within the meaning of the Privacy Act 1993. You are advised that under the Privacy Act you have the right to enquire as to the personal information held by Auckland Council and request that it be accurate.

Make a submission

Your submission should be concise but cover all the points you wish to make.

Consider the wording of your submission. If you wish to speak at the hearing on the proposed plan modification, what you are able to say may be limited by what you have written.

Be specific about your concerns and the decision you want the council to make about the proposal.

Send only one copy of your submission.

All submissions will be available to the public in libraries and service centres.

If your submission is to a notice of requirement to designate (NOR) or to a private plan change then a copy of your submission must be served on the applicant. The applicant's address is most often found on the public notice but also on the application.

Your written submission should include:

1. Your name and address for correspondence.
2. The date of submission.
3. The plan modification name and number.
4. The part/parts of the plan modification that you support/oppose.
5. The reasons for your support/opposition of the plan modification.
6. Whether you wish to be heard at the public council plan modification hearing.
7. Your signature.

Make a submission online

Download a submission form

Submission on a plan change or variation:
District plan submission form 5 (PDF 61KB)

Submission on a notice of requirement to designate:
District plan submission form 21- designation (PDF 58KB)

Send your submission to the relevant former council:

Please note: the following conditions apply if you submit via email

• only the submission email address in the public notice or from the legacy council dropdown list below can be used. Submissions or further submission sent to other email addresses in council will not be accepted
• the submission or further submission must contain your signature
• the submission or further submission must be sent as an attachment, ie must not be included in the body of the email
• the attachment must be in  PDF format - other formats will not be accepted
• an acknowledgment of your submission or further submission will sent by return email when the submission is opened
• all submissions or further submissions will be available to the public.

Make a further submission

You have the opportunity to make a submission in support or opposition to another person's submission without having made an original submission. This is known as a further submission.

A further submission is not an opportunity to lodge a submission on the plan modification. Notices of requirement to designate do not have a further submission stage.

Further submissions should include:

1. Your name and address for correspondence.
2. Which submission you oppose or support. (state who made the original submission, their name and address and submission number if known.)
3. The particular part of the submission you oppose or support.
4. The reasons for your support/opposition.
5. Whether you wish to be heard at the public council plan modification hearing.
6. You must sign and date your further submission

Use a separate form for each separate notice of support/or opposition. Within five working days of sending your further submission to the council you must also send a copy to the person on whose submission you are making comment.

You must also serve a copy of your further submission on the submitter. The submitter's address can be found on their submission, usually available to view in the 'summary of submissions' linked to from the plan modification information online and in the nearest community libraries.

Make a further submission online

or download a District plan further submission form 6 (59kb)

Send your submission.