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 (vii) the report of any other inquiry relating to the variation;

(viii) any documents relating to design and siting approvals developed from the planning principals identified in the draft Plan variation or Plan variation, including a summary of any concept diagrams prepared for the purpose of that document;

 (ix) an urban design impact statement; and

 (x) an infrastructure augmentation statement.".

My understanding is that the Government is prepared to accept amendment No. 1 and part of amendment No. 2. I am not quite sure how we get around this and resolve this issue.

Mr Wood: I have not got those.

MR JENSEN: Yes, you have; they are on the first page, Mr Wood. The first one is an amendment to omit "recommendation" and make it "submission". I think this provides for a wider amount of information. It is not just the recommendation; it is the total detail in relation to the basis on which that recommendation is agreed to. On that basis, we put that forward. I understand that the Government has agreed with that.

The other point that I understand they have agreed to is the addition of a new subparagraph (b)(vii) to that subclause by including "the report of any other inquiry relating to the variation". You will notice there that in the phrase "other inquiry" inquiry has a lower case "i", which means an internal inquiry, whereas subparagraph (b)(vi) relates to an Inquiry, with a capital "I", which is an inquiry under the section of the Act.

We also bring back this issue of "design and siting approvals developed from the planning principles identified in the draft Plan variation or Plan variation, including a summary of any concept diagrams prepared for the purpose of that document". Once again, if I can comment briefly on this, we get back to this issue of the provision of this sort of information at the stage of the preparation of a draft variation to a plan.

I ask members to recall the Manuka variation that was tabled yesterday. All we got in relation to that was a couple of squares on a piece of paper which was a plan version, if you like, of what the development should look like. We believe, and have continued to maintain, that that is totally inappropriate. The community really does


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