The government introduced Plan Stop legislation last year requiring proposed and draft changes to district plans to stop unless they meet criteria or have an exemption approved. Auckland Council applied for and received an exemption for PM16 Helipads. The exemption application for PM16 was approved by the Minister for the Environment on 28 November 2025.
Furthers submissions close: 12 June 2026 at 5pm
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Proposed Plan Modification 16 is a proposal that seeks to amend the Auckland Council District Plan - Hauraki Gulf Islands section (HGI Plan) provisions for Restricted Discretionary Activities for helipads, under Rule 13.8.2 Restricted Discretionary Activities to:
Notification: 26 June 2025
Submissions close: midnight on 21 August 2025 (online form closes 11:45pm then up to midnight, email submission to unitaryplan@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz)
The submission period has been extended by 20 working days so the submission closing period is 21 August 2025. This doubling of the submission period is to provide adequate time for would be submitters to consider the correct version of PM16 – Helipads.
Attachment A notified on 26 June 2025 contained an error in that the word "vibration" is missing from the proposed changes.
Attachment A (as at 2 July 2025) corrects the error by inserting the word vibration. The correction aligns the proposed changes to those shown in option 3 of the section 32 report.
Summary of Decisions Requested notified: 28 May 2026
Further submissions closed: 5:00PM on 12 June 2026
This plan modification aims to:
This is the second in a series of plan modifications to recognise the cultural value mana whenua place on identified sites and places within the Auckland region.
Visit PC 102: Sites and Places of Significance to Mana Whenua Tranche 2a to find out more.
Notification: 23 May 2024
Submissions closed: Friday 21 June 2024
Summary of Decisions Requested notified: 12 July 2024
Further submissions closed: Friday 26 July 2024.
Decision notified: 11 April 2025.
Appeal close: 28 May 2025.
Operative on 08 August 2025.
Effective
The National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD) required the Council to remove car parking minimums from the Auckland Unitary Plan (Operative in Part) and Auckland Council District Plan – Hauraki Gulf Islands Section without going through a plan change (Non-Schedule 1) process. The removal of minimums occurred on 11 February 2022.
The proposal aims to make several consequential amendments to the Auckland Unitary Plan and Hauraki Gulf Islands District Plan which lie outside the scope of the Non-Schedule 1 changes. The proposed changes are necessary to ensure that both plans continue to function as intended following the removal of car parking minimums.
Notification: 24 February 2022
Submissions close: 24 March 2022
Summary of Decisions Requested: 26 May 2022.
Further Submissions close: 10 June 2022.
Decision notified: 26 January 2023.
Appeals close: 10 March 2023.
Operative on 10 November 2023.
This plan modification aims to provide specific provisions in the Auckland Unitary Plan and Hauraki Gulf Islands District Plan that will more easily enable residential and rural properties to install rainwater tanks without the need for a resource consent.
Notification: 09 October 2020
Submissions close: 09 November 2020
Summary of Decisions Requested: 19 November 2020.
Further Submissions close: 03 December 2020.
Summary of Decisions Requested Re-notified: 26 November 2020.
Further Submissions close: 10 December 2020.
Decision notified on 10 December 2021.
Appeals close on 16 February 2021.
No appeals.
Operative on 10 June 2022.
Proposed Plan Modification 12 is the first in a series of plan changes seeking to recognise the cultural value to Mana Whenua of identified sites and places within the Auckland region.
Notified on 21 March 2019.
In accordance with section 86B (3) of the Resource Management Act, some of the proposed plan change rules have immediate legal effect.
Submissions closed on 18 April 2019.
Further submissions closed 23 May 2019.
See Plan change 22 to the Auckland Unitary Plan.
Renotification (limited) — Submissions closed 10 March 2020.
Renotification (limited) – Summary of Decisions Requested notified on 26 March 2020.
Renotification (limited) – Further Submissions closed 9 April 2020.
Decision notified on 19 November 2020.
Appeal period closes 21 January 2021.
Operative on 12 March 2021.
Effective
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Notified 17 May 2018
Submissions closed 18 June 2018
Recommendation 15 August 2018
Decision 29 August 2018
