Submissions closed: 19 December 2025, 5.00pm.
Further submissions – Open on 26 February 2026
Notification: 3 November 2025
Submissions closed: 19 December 2025, 5.00pm.
In accordance with section 86B (3) of the Resource Management Act, some of the proposed plan change rules have immediate legal effect. For more information, read PC 120 Proposed Plan Change – Explanatory Note [PDF 1MB].
Further submissions: Open on 26 February 2026. Further submissions close on 18 March 2026.
This proposed plan change to the Auckland Unitary Plan Operative in part aims to:
On 24 September 2025, Auckland Council’s Policy and Planning Committee voted to endorse PC 120 for public notification.
PC 120 was sent to Government Ministers Hon Chris Bishop and Hon Tama Potaka on 2 October 2025 respectively requesting a direction for Auckland Council to use the streamlined planning process (SPP) to prepare the Auckland Housing Planning Instrument (known as Proposed Plan Change 120 - Housing Intensification and Resilience) as required under Clause 5(1) of Schedule 3C to the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA).
The Ministers wrote to the council on 29 October 2025 confirming the use of the streamlined planning process and issued a direction and gazette notice on the process.
The Streamlined Planning Process is different from the usual Schedule 1 RMA process. The differences are explained in this document:
The Housing Capacity Modelling Report: Housing Intensification and Resilience (Plan Change 120) together with accompanying memo were also sent to Ministers Bishop and Potaka on 31 October 2025.
Housing Capacity Modelling data is now available.
We understand that RMA processes can be a little daunting, so we have appointed a 'Friend of Submitters' who is an independent advisor to help submitters.
The Friend of the submitter can help explain the process, advise you on lodging your submission, how to express your views, and what to do after lodging your submission.
This free service is available throughout the submission period and in the lead-up to the hearings. This service will be unavailable from 19 December 2025, 5.00pm to 12 January 2026, 9.00am. We will respond to messages left during this period when the service resumes.
Friend of submitter 1:
Friend of submitter 2:
Friend of submitter 3 (specialising in Māori planning issues):
You can also review the YouTube video explaining how to use the PC 120 map viewer.
Contact unitaryplan@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz if you have trouble downloading these documents.
