The Considerations page lets you review the considerations triggered for a given proposal and add any relevant statutory documents to your project.
Considerations
Considerations are triggered on the Subject Site and Consideration Checklists pages. These are summarised on the Considerations page so you can take relevant actions to address these.
There are two types of considerations:
Considerations suggesting relevant statutory documents to assess
Other considerations
These are explained further below.
Considerations suggesting relevant statutory documents to assess
These considerations suggest that a statutory document is relevant to the proposal.
'Document' is a general term we use for groups of rules and activities within the statutory framework. For example, a section or chapter of a district plan, or a National Environmental Standard.
Documents should be added to a project when they contain rules or provisions you would like to assess.
To add a document from a consideration
Click the add button. This is the circle button with the “+” symbol in the centre, displayed at the right of a consideration where this suggests a relevant document.
Tip: You can review source documents to determine whether they’re relevant. The button to the left of the add button (with the document icon) links directly to source documents. This enables you to review source documents more closely to see if they contain rules and provisions relevant to the proposal.
Removing a document from your project
Documents can be removed from a project at any time by hitting the remove button, located in place of the add button once added.
Other considerations
Other considerations are any other considerations that affect the consent process e.g. an information requirement for resource consent application under Schedule 4 of the RMA.
Other considerations don't have anything to add directly like a document. Instead, they are displayed as prompts to remind you to address these where you see most suitable in a project.
All Documents
Under the All Documents section you can add any document available on Rico.
Given the Consideration Checklist only detects documents with relevant rules, this may be required where a document only contains provisions relevant to a proposal (and not rules). Given the Subject Site page only detects documents applying to the subject site, this may also be required where rules applying to areas outside the subject site apply to the proposal.
See the instructions earlier in this post for adding and removing documents under All Documents.