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National Planning Standards
What are national planning standards?
National planning standards are intended to reduce plan complexity and provide a home for national direction. National planning standards can:
Specify matters as if it was a national policy statement;
Specify objectives, policies, methods to…
Planning documents and processes
The Resource Management Act establishes a hierarchy of policy statements and plans which seek to give substance to the sustainable management purpose of the Act with increasing particularity both as to substantive content and locality.. This hierarchy of planning instruments…
District Plans
Historic heritage should be a significant element in any district plan. District plans should include a separate chapter relating to historic heritage which contains objectives, policies and rules. Historic heritage issues traverse a range of planning issues and it is…
National Fisheries Plans
The Fisheries Act enables the Minister to approve fisheries plans, which must be taken into account by the Minister when setting sustainability measures. The Act is silent on who may prepare a fisheries plan, but in recent years the Ministry…
Best Practice Coastal Planning
This section has been provided to assist councils, and others with an interest in coastal planning, in developing policies and plans which help ensure positive outcomes for the coast. Both statutory and non-statutory planning documents can be used to set…
District Plans
District plans focus on the management of the environmental effects of land use including the impacts of land subdivision, development and use on freshwater bodies. They could be expected to identify sensitive freshwater areas that are not suitable for urban…
District Plans
Territorial authorities are required to prepare a district plan setting out objectives, policies and rules managing land use and subdivision. It is expected that district plans should address the effects of climate changes issues, including natural hazards.
Example – Proposed Thames-Coromandel…
Freshwater farm plans
Farm plans have been used as a means for managing farm practices and the effects of farming for decades, particularly for erosion management purposes. More recently farm plans have been required in some regional plans (for example in Canterbury and…
Review of a policy statement or plan
A local authority may review a policy statement or plan at any time. However, a local authority must commence a review of a provision of a regional policy statement, a regional plan, or a district plan if the provision has…
Application of marine spatial planning
One of the earliest applications of marine spatial planning was to assist with the management of marine protected areas. The first spatial plan for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park was developed in the early 1980s. It identified a number…