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Resource consents

Each council operates a district plan under the Resource Management Act. The relevant district plans for the central connector (CC) project are Auckland City's Central Area District Plan and Isthmus District Plan.

The general purpose of district plans is to manage the city's physical and natural resources in a sustainable way. District plans set out the resource management strategy for the city, including how the council balances the effects of activities and development with maintaining, protecting and improving the environment of Auckland's central city suburbs, including the CBD.

Detailed design for the CC is complete. The project as a whole does not need a resource consent as the operation of a bus way is permitted within the road reserve. Auckland City owns and manages the road reserve where the bus way is being introduced.

The construction work required to widen the road, improve the street environment (landscaping, new footpaths, street furniture) and the work to seismically strengthen Grafton Bridge triggers eight individual resource consents.

Two resource consents were required in order to conduct investigations as part of the detailed design process. The investigations conducted on Symonds St to investigate tree roots proved to be inconclusive.

The remaining consents have either been lodged or will be lodged shortly.

The notification status of the consents is determined once the application is lodged. The provisions of the District Plan allow for these consents to be processed on a non-notified basis; the notification decision may be made by a panel of independent commissioners.