Processing times for planning applications are currently running with a 5/7 working day delay before we can start validating new applications. To focus resources on validation, we will not be responding to any requests for progress updates until we have had the application for 7 working days. We’re doing our best to process applications as fast as possible, and we appreciate your patience.
New City Plan
Find out about our preparations for a new City Plan that will help shape future development in the city until 2044.
A new City Plan
We're preparing a new City Plan which will set out a framework of planning policies to guide future development in the city up to 2044. We're preparing it under the new national plan-making system.
We'll adopt the new City Plan in 2029. Until then our current City Plan Part One and City Plan Part Two will remain in effect.
In the coming months we'll publish our Notice of Intention to commence plan preparation.
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