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Participating in the Plan Change Process
How to review a proposed policy statement or plan
If you have been notified of a proposed policy statement or plan you will need to decide whether or not to lodge a submission. You will need to review the document…
Property spray plans
Spray plans are used as a method to identify the potential risk posed by those applying agrichemicals and to communicate with neighbours with sensitive areas as to how this risk will be managed. The components of a spray plan outlined…
Research Planning and Contracting Process
The Ministry for Primary Industries contracts around $20 - $22.5 million of research each year. Much of this cost is recovered from the fishing industry. Research is determined by fisheries managers, who take advice from science staff, and is carried…
When do policy statements and plans enter into force?
When objectives, policies and methods take legal effect
Decision makers determining an application for resource consent are required to have regard to objectives, policies, and methods in a proposed policy statement or plan from the date that a proposed policy…
Schedule historic sites in planning maps
Key points to consider:
Identify the location of each site on the planning maps
Provide for the integrated management of sites in collaboration with key stakeholders and tangata whenua
Develop appropriate objectives, policies and rules to support the management of…
Benefits of marine spatial planning
There are many potential benefits from the adoption of marine spatial planning. They include:
Application of an ecosystems approach to the management of human activities through safeguarding important marine ecological processes and the overall resilience of the marine system
Provision…
Case study: Tairua harbour and catchment management plan
Sedimentation of Tairua Harbour, on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, has long been a concern for the local community and management agencies. A report by the Hauraki Catchment Board in 1977 stated that it seemed “fairly certain that…
What a marine spatial plan contains
There is a wide variety of material that can be included in marine spatial plans. But as a minimum, such a plan would be expected to include:
A clear vision: including measurable goals of what the plan seeks to achieve…
Environmental Strategy, Standards and National Plans of Action
In order to help address the environmental impacts of fishing activity, the former Ministry of Fisheries prepared a report in 2005 titled “Strategy for managing the environmental effects of fishing”. The core approach adopted in the strategy was the development…
Pest Management
National pest management plans and pathway management plans
A national pest management plan is designed to provide for the coordinated management or eradication of pests. It sets out how pests are to be managed and by which agency. The Biosecurity…