Progress on Fast-track projects

It’s been four months since the Fast-track Approvals system opened for business and the Government says statistics show strong progress toward making it quicker and easier to build the projects New Zealand needs for economic growth.

As of this week, 15 substantive applications for listed projects have been lodged and found complete and within scope by the EPA. Of these, twelve applications have no competing applications or existing resource consents; two applications are undergoing checks for competing applications or existing resource consents; and one application was found to have an existing resource consent and can therefore not proceed any further through Fast-track.

The projects which have applied for Fast-track approvals could contribute 12,208 new homes and 1,136 new retirement units, if approved.