2025/011: An authority’s decision to grant a building consent under section 72 in relation to slippage on neighbouring land

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This determination considers an authority's decision to grant a building consent under section 72 for a new building on land adjacent to a neighbouring property that is subject to the natural hazard of slippage.

The matter turns on whether the neighbouring land is intimately connected with the land on which the building work is being carried out. 

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