Auckland Regional Council v North Shore City Council - [1995] 3 NZLR 18

Resource Management — Regional councils — District plans — Regional policy statement — Provisions in statement limiting urban development only within metropolitan urban limits — Consequent restrictive effect on powers of territorial authorities to permit further urbanisation in their areas — Power of regional council to make policies — Power of regional council to implement rules — Meaning to be given to word "policy" — Whether policies need to be highly specific — Whether policies need to involve discretion — Whether provisions in regional statement within permissible scope of policies — Whether provisions intra vires regional council — Whether district plan must not be inconsistent with regional policy statements — Resource Management Act 1991, ss 2, 9, 30, 31, 32, 59, 62, 68, 75(2)(c) and 76.