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- there is little opportunity for the public to influence the decision
on resource consent applications, because only a fraction of them is
notified.

- overall, plans are of rather poor quality, making it difficult for
planners to evaluate a proposal and its accompanying assessment
in the intended spirit of the policies.

- councils are subject to capacity bottlenecks which gives rise to an
implementation gap, i.e. the use of less sophisticated procedures and
methods than declared in the plans.