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This is my layperson's reading of the law, but I think it's from an Independent Hearings Panel that the council was required to establish under this part of the RMA in relation to an Instrumentation Planning Instrument (basically all the changes going through the motions in the housing density rules).
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1991/0069/latest/whole.html#LMS634247
Next the council has to consider each recommendation, and accept it reject them. It can provide alternative recommendations but in doing so it can only consider evidence that was submitted to the Independent Hearings Panel.
The council doesn't have to accept its recommendations, but if it chooses not to accept any or all of them then the Minister gets to decide if they have to be implemented.
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1991/0069/latest/whole.html#LMS634479
Expect plenty more lobbying aimed at Simeon Brown.
So it's a requirement for changing the density rules, but the panel doesn't really need to be commenting on whether building more houses will reduce the price of houses?
Heh. I'm afraid trying to answer that question is above my pay grade.