Attorney-General ex rel Benfield v Wellington City Council - [1979] 2 NZLR 385

Town and country planning — Planning permission for erection of 31 storey office building with underground shopping complex challenged — Meaning of "site" and method of calculating "plot ratio" and "gross floor area" — Whether Council had granted a valid dispensation from height restriction and car parking requirements — Whether notice of conditional use application regarding excess height expressed in terms of "encroachment areas" exceeding "voids" complied with reg 32 of 1960 regulations — Whether direction in s 2 of 1953 Act that there be an interval of seven days between public notices is mandatory — Effect of relators' delays on grant of discretionary remedies.