The Council’s Policy and Planning Committee has agreed to apply to the Environment Court to give interim legal effect to sound insulation and ventilation rules proposed for some areas as part of its Central-City Noise Plan Change (Plan Change 21).

The decision relates to provisions affecting new noise-sensitive activities in two parts of the central city where higher noise limits are proposed – an area south of Tuam Street, encompassing Colombo, Welles, and Manchester streets, and an area south of Lichfield Street, bordered by Fitzgerald Avenue and Ferry Road.

The staff report to the committee states the application is intended to ensure these rules apply while Plan Change 21 progresses through the statutory process – noting that, without interim legal effect, there is a risk that new developments could set up without appropriate noise mitigation and, as a result, undermine the protections being sought by the plan change for venues in and around the two central-city areas.

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Read the full report to the Policy and Planning Committee

• View the Plan Change 21 provisions intended for legal effect

• View a map of the areas that would be affected by the provisions being in legal effect