2026/010: An authority’s decision to refuse to remove a section 72 entry following subdivisions

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This determination considers an authority’s decision to refuse to remove an entry on a property’s record of title relating to a natural hazard.

It discusses how the entry came to be recorded against the current record of title following a series of subdivisions and the relevance of where the building work described in a 2004 building consent was carried out, in determining whether the entry is no longer required in terms of section 74(3).

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