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The hearings for Plan Change 9 have been scheduled as follows:
Session 1: Historic Heritage Areas, Significant Natural Areas, and Notable Trees
Monday 22 May to Wednesday 7 June 2023.
Session 2: Built Heritage, Archaeological Sites
Monday 6 November to Friday 10 November 2023.
Session 2: Resumption of Session 1: Historic Heritage Areas topic only
Monday 13 November to Wednesday 15 November.
Session 3: Built Heritage
Wednesday 21 August, Thursday 22 August and Monday 26 August.
Exchange timetable for Hearings 3*
- 3 July 2024, by 5pm - HCC evidence is to be filed with the hearing administrator;
- 3 July 2024, by 5pm - WHG evidence is to be filed with the hearing administrator;
- 24 July 2024, by 5pm - All other submitter evidence is to be filed with the hearing administrator;
- 9 August 2024, by 5pm - All rebuttal evidence is to be filed with the hearing administrator;
- 16 August 2024 - All legal submissions are to be filed with the hearing administrator;
- 21, 22 and 26 August - Hearings Session 3
*The dates were established in Direction #26. Please refer to the latest Direction for any updates.
You can read more the complete Commission Direction 1 here.
All hearings are open to the public and will be conducted by a panel of accredited commissioners. If you have indicated you wish to speak at the hearing you will be given a chance to explain your submission and may be questioned about it.
After the hearing, the commissioners will make their decisions. As a submitter, you will be sent a copy of the decision and the reasons for it. Decisions will also be publicly notified. As a submitter, you will have right of appeal to the Environment Court.
In accordance with the Hearing Panel’s Direction 2, expert conferencing is scheduled to take place on the following Plan Change 9 Session 1 topics:
- Session 1: Ecology and Planning - Significant Natural Areas
- Session 2: Arboricultural and Planning - Notable trees
- Session 3: Heritage and Planning - Historic Heritage Areas
- Reserve Session: Planning - District plan provisions (matters arising from sessions 1 to 3)
You can read Commissioner Direction 2 here which provides further information about the expert conferencing sessions.
Agendas will be circulated before the sessions and agenda items will be based on key themes identified in the Themes and Issues Report. This Report is currently being prepared by the Reporting Officer
Note: An experts’ conference is a meeting between the expert witnesses to identify which matters the experts agree and disagree on, which will be recorded in a joint witness statement. Participation in expert conferencing is limited to experts (as defined in the Evidence Act 2006) who comply with the Code of Conduct for expert witnesses in the Environment Court Practice Note 2023. Non-experts such as individual homeowners and submitters can make a personal written or oral presentation at the hearing.
