653I Zoning submissions

Summary

This section deals with requests to amend the zoning status of land.

Details

(1) A landowner can make a written submission to their local authority requesting the zoning of land included in a draft or supplemental map be amended. A submission relating to a draft map must be made by 1 January 2023; a submission relating to a supplemental map must be made by 1 June 2023.

(2) The local authority will publish on its website submissions received by it requesting changes to the zoning status of land on draft or supplemental maps.

(3) Section 13(3A) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 will apply in relation to the publication of a submission on land zoning amendments. This provision provides that written submissions or observations received by a local authority to vary land zoning will be published on the website of the local authority within 10 working days of receipt subject to certain exceptions, including where the local authority is of the opinion that it is vexatious, libellous or contains confidential information relating to a third party in respect of which the third party has not consented to its disclosure; where the local authority has received legal advice not to publish all, or part of the submissions or observations concerned; and where the submission or observation relates to matters prescribed by the Minister for the Environment and Local Government for the purpose of section 13 of the Planning and Development Act 2000.

(4) The local authority will evaluate a submission received under subsection (1) and (4) consider whether a variation under section 13 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, is appropriate.

Relevant Date: Finance Act 2021