The $1.47billion project was given approval to apply for an accelerated planning process earlier this, under the auspices of Covid-19 economic recovery legislation.
The hospital is to be built in two stages: a five storey outpatient building on the former Wilson car parking site, and a much larger inpatient building on the soon to be cleared former Cadbury factory site.
The Ministry of Health has lodged paperwork with the Environmental Protection Authority to apply for consent for groundworks on the two sites, and said it will file its applications for building work later this year.
Judge Newhook will be joined on the panel by long-serving Environment Commissioner Russell Howie, Gary Rae — who was the commissioner who approved demolition of the Cadbury factory facade, and Dunedin local and independent iwi commissioner Hoani Langsbury.
Yesterday the panel issued its first minute, which invited interested parties to make comment on the application, with a deadline of October 29.
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They had better do something fast, the clinical services opens in 3 years and 3 months.
And people wonder just why houses take so long to build and developers struggle to get housing developments started.
It has taken months if not years to appoint a group to decide is something like a hospital can be "fast tracked". Just how long does the slow track take.
Something is seriously broken in the development process.