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This report highlights patterns and trends in implementation of the Resource Management Act by local authorities from 2014/15 to 2018/19, as recorded by the National Monitoring System. The purpose of the report is to identify areas for improvement in policy or practice.

Key trends

• Resource consent applications are processed within time limits prescribed in the RMA 82 per cent of the time. This is the fourth consecutive year that this rate has fallen. 
• Both resource consent processing times and application fees are increasing over time. 
• A section 37 time extension is applied to almost a third (31 per cent) of resource consent applications. This rate is increasing over time. 
• Local authorities are required to decide plan changes within two years of notification. All 81 plan changes decided in the past two years met this requirement. 
• About four in five councils (78 per cent) provide either budgetary or in-kind support for iwi/hapū participation in resource management.
• Monitoring and enforcement staffing levels have increased by 60 per cent over the past two years. This increase has occurred across all council types.