29Crown development and public utilities

29 Crown development and public utilities

29 Crown development and public utilities

(1) Nothing in this plan (except for clause 23) is to be construed as restricting or prohibiting or enabling the consent authority to restrict or prohibit—

(a) the carrying out of development of any description specified in subclauses (2)–(12), or

(b) the use of existing buildings of the Crown by the Crown.

Note—

Clause 23 deals with development on land identified as having, or potentially having, acid sulfate soils.

(2) Railway undertakings The carrying out by persons carrying on railway undertakings, on land comprised in their undertakings, of—

(a) any development required in connection with the movement of traffic by rail, including the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of ways, works and plant, and

(b) the erection within the limits of a railway station of buildings for any purpose,

but excluding—

(c) the construction of new railways, railway stations and bridges over roads, and

(d) the erection, reconstruction and alteration of buildings for purposes other than railway undertaking purposes outside the limits of a railway station and the reconstruction or alteration, so as materially to affect their design, of railway stations or bridges, and

(e) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road, and

(f) the erection, reconstruction and alteration of buildings for purposes other than railway purposes where such buildings have direct access to a public place.

(3) Water, sewerage, drainage, electricity or gas undertakings The carrying out by persons carrying on public utility undertakings, being water, sewerage, drainage, electricity or gas undertakings, of any of the following development, being development required for the purpose of their undertakings—

(a) development of any description at or below the surface of the ground,

(b) the installation of any plant inside a building or the installation or erection within the premises of a generating station or substation established before the commencement of this plan of any plant or other structures or erections required in connection with the station or substation,