36Coastal erosion outside Zone 7 (f)

36 Coastal erosion outside Zone 7 (f)

36 Coastal erosion outside Zone 7 (f)

(1) Objective

• to protect land that may be subject to coastal erosion (but not within Zone 7 (f)) from inappropriate development.

(2) In determining whether to grant consent to development involving the erection of a building or the carrying out of a work at or above the surface of the ground on land that in the consent authority’s opinion may be subject to coastal erosion, the consent authority must—

(a) (Repealed)

(b) consider—

(i) the likelihood of the proposed development adversely affecting the behaviour or being adversely affected by the behaviour of the sea, or of water in an arm of the sea or any other body of water, and

(ii) the likelihood of the proposed development adversely affecting any beach or dune or the bed, bank, shoreline, foreshore, margin or floodplain of the sea, any arm of the sea or any other body of water, and

(iii) the likelihood of the proposed development adversely affecting the landscape or scenic quality of the locality, and

(iv) the potential impacts of climate change including sea level rise.

cl 36: Am 2008 (571), Sch 3.175 [9] [10].