Pre-application Meeting
- Terms & Conditions

Before attending a pre-application meeting you need to read and accept the following terms and conditions:

• A pre-application meeting is a voluntary meeting the Council organises to help you through the consent process.
• You will be charged for staff time spent in preparing for the meeting, providing, holding and documenting notes from the meeting. For this you'll receive feedback on your proposal and a record of the matters discussed.
• Pre-application meetings will be conducted on the basis of information available at the time.
• The provision of further information or changes in project scope may impact the Council's view of your application.
• Formal decisions cannot be made during or on the basis of the pre-application meeting and any representations made by the Council are not legally binding.
• This is a confidential process as the Council wants to encourage discussions at the early development stage of a proposal without fear, or prejudice, or disadvantage to the applicant. At the pre-application stage, the proposal is often subject to change or may never be lodged for resource consent. Therefore, it is inappropriate to release any of this initial information.