Request for reconsideration of assessed charges

Step 1: You

Before you start

If you think we have incorrectly calculated your development contribution charge, you can make a request for reconsideration of the charge.

Before having your development contribution assessment reconsidered, please first refer to:

Section 199 (A-B) of the Local Government Act 2002
Section 14 of our Development Contributions Policy: ‘Requests for reconsideration’.

Understand criteria

Your request for reconsideration must:

be in writing
be made within 10 working days of receiving notice of the development contribution
set out the grounds and reasons for the request
specify the outcome which is sought.

Step 2: You

Apply for reconsideration by using our Application for Reconsideration form. Make sure your application:

uses this official form
is lodged with us within 10 working days of receiving notice of the development contribution.

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Name

Email

Phone number (optional)

Resource/Building consent number

Brief description of development (optional)

I request Council to reconsider the requirement of the development contribution charge based on the following criteria (tick applicable):

the development contribution was incorrectly calculated or assessed under Council’s development contributions policy; or

Council has incorrectly applied its development contributions policy; or

the information used to assess the person’s development against the development contributions policy, or the way Council has recorded or used it when requiring a development contribution, was incomplete or contained errors.

Further description in support of application: (optional)

Please outline the outcome that you seek from your application:

Please attach any documents relevant to your application for reconsideration. (optional)

Max file size: 300 MB

I hereby declare that the information provided above is accurate to the best of my knowledge. I will notify Council’s Programme Manager Development Contributions of any changes made to the above information at any stage.

Name

Date

Step 3: Council

Application processing

We will consider whether:

the development contribution was incorrectly calculated or assessed under the Development Contributions Policy
the Policy has been incorrectly applied
the information used to assess the development against the Policy, or the way we have recorded or used information, was incomplete or contained errors.

What's next?

We:

give written notice of the outcome of the reconsideration within 15 working days of the date we received all information relating to the request.

Before you start

Understand criteria

Application processing

What's next?

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