15Availability of essential services

15 Availability of essential services

15 Availability of essential services

(1) Objectives

• to ensure that development does not occur without adequate measures to protect the environment and the community’s health.

• to ensure that development occurs in a coordinated and efficient manner.

(2) Consent must not be granted to the carrying out of development on any land unless—

(a) a water supply and facilities for the removal or disposal of sewage and drainage are available for that land, or

(b) arrangements satisfactory to the consent authority have been made for the provision of that supply and those facilities.