Today's entry is an update on applications for nationally
significant infrastructure projects.
On Friday, the 35th application was made for a project under the
Planning Act 2008 infrastructure planning and consenting
regime. The number may seem inauspicious but it is
actually somewhat significant, as it was the then Infrastructure
Planning Commission's estimate of the number of applications it
would receive in its first year of operation (based on
developers' estimates, mind).
In fact, then, it has taken three years and three and a half
months to reach that total, making an application frequency of just
under one a month over that time. Here is a chart of
applications by year (where the year starts on 1 March).
It is encouraging that the pace is definitely quickening.
