Section 36 Charges Policy

Statement of Proposal for Consultation

Submissions on the Draft Annual Plan 2013/14 closed at 4pm on Friday 26 April. Hearings of submissions were held at Te Puke on Wednesday 15 May.

Council deliberations took place at the Council Meeting in Whakatane on Thursday 30 May. Council will confirm the new Section 36 Charges policy at the ir meeting on 27 June.

• Council agenda and minutes 30 May 2013

The charges are proposed to increase to recognise inflation, as described on the back page of the Draft Annual Plan Summary.

Bay of Plenty Regional Council is responsible for a range of resources which include monitoring, processing and administration. This includes processing resource consents, monitoring of consented activities, resource investigation and monitoring and management.

The framework for setting charges to do this work sits under Section 36 of the Resource Management Act 1991.

Each year we review our  Section 36 Charges Policy that sets out what costs we intend to recover from carrying out our regulatory functions.