New Zealand Acts

URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT 2020 - SECT 57

57 Functions of Kāinga Ora in preparing, amending, or reviewing development plan

Kāinga Ora has the following functions for the purpose of preparing, amending, or reviewing a development plan for a specified development project:

a) establishing, implementing, and reviewing the objectives of any planning instrument, and the policies, rules, and methods relevant to resource management, to achieve the project objectives:

b) controlling the actual or potential effects of the use, development, and protection of land—

i) to achieve the project objectives:

ii) to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, that, as a contribution to district and regional capacity, there is sufficient land for residential and business development to meet the expected demand in the project area:

iii) to avoid or mitigate risks from natural hazards:

iv) to develop (or provide for the development of) infrastructure and its integration with land use.

c) ensuring that there are rules—

i) to control the emission, and mitigate the effects, of noise:

ii) about any actual or potential effects of activities in relation to the surface of water in rivers and lakes:

iii) to control subdivision.

History: Section 57(a): amended, on 23 December 2023, by section 6 of the Resource Management (Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Repeal and Interim Fast-track Consenting) Act 2023 (2023 No 68).