Explanation of Proposed Draft Notice of Requirement Conditions Introduction The serving of the Notices of Requirement (NoR) to designate land for the City Rail Link (CRL) project is the first step in the statutory planning process for securing the necessary planning approvals required to construct, operate and maintain the CRL. Resource consent approvals for those matters covered under sections 9, 14 and 15 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) will need to be obtained in the future once further site investigation and detailed design is completed. This document is intended to assist in the reading and understanding of the draft conditions proposed to be attached to the designation (if confirmed). It provides an explanation of how the proposed designations and related conditions provide the framework within which the CRL project will be delivered1. The structure of the conditions shows how the adverse effects and the project will be managed when it is constructed and when it is operating.
The City Rail Link Designations For the CRL six NoR have been served by Auckland Transport (corresponding to six designations). Five of the NoR (NoR 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6) propose designations that authorise physical works (construction, operation and maintenance of the CRL). The sixth NoR (NoR 3) proposes a designation for protection purposes only, making the use of the land subject to the agreement of the Requiring Authority to protect the subterranean works below but not requiring the land for works or authorising any activity. It protects the infrastructure to be constructed, operated and maintained under NoR 2, a wholly sub‐strata designation. Conditions will be imposed on each proposed designation and therefore draft conditions have been prepared for each of the NoR. Some of the conditions are applicable to all proposed designations, while some of the conditions are applicable to only some or one NoR. Also, there are draft conditions which are only applicable to the proposed protection designation (NoR 3). The CRL has been separated out into six proposed designations in order to:
Aid administration; Reflect the different nature of the restrictions the designations (if confirmed) will impose on affected parties, including subsurface restrictions; Provide flexibility in the construction of the Project recognising that parts of the Project may be constructed at different times; and Enable specific or localised effects to be addressed by conditions that are only appropriate to a particular NoR.
A diagram showing how the proposed designation conditions for the CRL fit into the anticipated delivery2 of the project is shown on the next page. Pages 4 and 5 contain information on the structure of the proposed draft designation conditions.
1
The anticipated delivery of the CRL project can been seen in Figure 2.1 of the Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE) which supports the CRL NoR (Volume 2 of CRL NoR suite of documents).
2
See footnote 1 above.
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