Have your say on the Appearance Industries Bylaw
Have a read of our statement of proposal, including our proposed changes to the appearance industries bylaw. We want to know if we’ve got it right.
Let us know before 26 April whether you support the proposed changes, or if you have suggestions for us to make them better.
Privacy Statement
We require your name and contact details as part of your feedback. All feedback will be published on our website with your name. All other personal or commercially sensitive information (including your email address) will be removed. Publishing feedback in full supports a transparent process and will assist in the public hearing process. If you have specific reasons for not wanting your feedback publicly released, please contact policy@huttcity.govt.nz.
Public Hearings
The online survey also asks if you want to present directly to Councillors at a hearing. If you state that you do want to present to Councillors, you will be contacted by Council staff to arrange a time for you to speak.
Feedback will be considered by Council regardless of whether you wish to present your views at a hearing or not. Final decisions will be made in July 2025 and the reviewed Appearance Industries Bylaw and Code of Practice will be adopted in July 2025.
Storing personal information
Council stores information with reasonable safeguards against loss and disclosure. Reasonable safeguards include physical and technological protections. Personal information is accessible to staff who have a legitimate reason to access it. Council has a code of conduct where unauthorised disclosure of confidential information or records in accordance with the provisions of the Public Records Act, which includes the authorised destruction of records once they are no longer required to be kept for legislative compliance or business purposes.
Access to your information
The information you provide will be accessible only by Council staff and will not be shared with any third party outside of the Bang the Table survey platform. You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at policy@huttcity.govt.nz, or 04 570 6666, or 30 Laings Road, Lower Hutt 5010.