Dye v Auckland Regional Council - [2002] 1 NZLR 337

Resource management — Resource consents — Subdivision development into “lifestyle blocks” — Non-complying activity — Objectives and policies of district plan — Whether consideration of cumulative effects ought to be limited to those due solely to rural character — Whether application gave rise to precedent effects — Meaning of “effect” — Precedent and cumulative effects — Role of High Court on appeal from Environment Court — Resource Management Act 1991, ss 104(1), 105(1)(c), 105(2A)(a) and (b).