Hauraki District Council
District Plan Review

What is a District Plan?

The District Plan provides rules for how landowners can build on or develop their land. Depending on which zone(s) your land is located in will determine what activities and development you can and can’t do on your property.

This District Plan does not stand on its own as an isolated plan for resource management.

The Plan sits within a wider resource management framework, where regulations, plans and planning documents have been created at the national, regional and district levels.

Hauraki District Council is currently undertaking a review of its Operative District Plan, which has been in use for the past 12 years.


Why Review the Plan?

Quite simply Government legislation says we have do a review every ten years of the District Plan. A review allows communities to reassess environmental outcomes and priorities and to redefine their vision for the future of the district.

A lot can happen in ten years – different development pressures, economic situations and new and changing issues. No one had heard of climate change ten years ago and yet that is an important issue that we need to take into account in planning for the next ten.


What is the Review process?

Council has been working on this review for about four years now and is now at the point where the draft plan has been written. The review process will take a long time to complete due to the detailed investigation and consultation required.

Please check the calendar below for dates and the review process.

District Plan Review Calendar
 
October 2009

Open Days for the community were held in the local towns and settlements to discuss the draft District Plan and informal feedback.
 
 
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February / March 2010

Council staff and consultants will take information gained from October consultation and rewrite areas of the Draft District Plan, if necessary.

 
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April 2010

Council will adopt the draft as a ‘Proposed District Plan’.
The Proposed District Plan is scheduled to be notified for formal submissions in late April 2010.
 
       

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July / Aug 2010

Hearings of submissions
Hearings will be held for those that wish to speak in support of their submission(s).
Decisions on these submissions are made.
 
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May / June 2010

Stage 2: Further Submissions
Public notification, advertised in the local newspaper, for further submissions which either support or oppose those submissions already received in Stage 1 process.
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April / May 2010

Stage 1: Submissions
The Proposed District Plan will be advertised in the local newspapers as being open for formal submissions to be received. A notice will also be sent to each ratepayer.

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September / October 2010

Final Decisions
Final decisions are notified and the appeal period begins.
Submitters wishing to challenge decisions on the proposed submissions on the District Plan have an opportunity to further address its content.
   
 
 

Contact Council to find out more

If you want to contact Council to find out more information or to discuss the Draft Plan further, you can do any one of the following:

  • Phone the dedicated Draft District Plan staff member, Maureen Coleman, on (07) 862 8609 or 0800 734 834 (from within the district - no cellphones). Maureen can put you in touch with the appropriate person to respond to your queries.

  • Email Council’s dedicated Draft District Plan email address on districtplan@hauraki-dc.govt.nz

  • Request a free CD of the Draft District Plan or a hard copy by email or phone one of the contacts shown above. Please remember Council has a sustainable friendly policy of using minimal paper and would prefer issuing CDs only.

HDC Engineering Manual

As part of the District Plan review the Council has moved a lot of the engineering standards from the District Plan to the proposed HDC Engineering Manual.

View the proposed HDC Engineering manual  


 

 

  
 
The Draft
Hauraki District Plan
 
Proposed
 Changes
 
Current
District Plan
 
HDC
Engineering Manual
 
 
Articles Published
about the District Plan Review