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Local Government New Zealand Managing Council and Community Risk from Natural Hazards 16 February 2011 Planning Controls and Property Rights Addressing Council Risk Simon Berry Barrister Context


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Local Government New Zealand Managing Council and Community Risk from Natural Hazards 16 February 2011

“Planning Controls and Property Rights – Addressing Council Risk”

Simon Berry Barrister

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Context

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Issues

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Purpose and scope of presentation

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Source material

  • Presentation is adapted from a paper presented

for the Resource Management Law Association in 2010 entitled “Planning Controls and Property Rights– Striking the Balance

  • Available on RMLA www site and

www.simonberry.co.nz

  • Less focus on plan controls than original paper
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Scope of plan making powers

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Scope of powers to impose plan controls

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Statutory requirements and safeguards – section 32

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Relevance of private property rights

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– Constitutional protections – American and other overseas jurisprudence – Liberal political theories – Absolute rights of freehold owner

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Relevance of private property rights

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Summary of New Zealand legal position

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Section 85 – unfair and unreasonable burden

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Compensation or taking of land

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Examples of contemporary planning controls

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Coastal hazards

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General observations

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