What is a District Plan?

The District Plan provides rules for how landowners can build 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.

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.

Consultation on this manual is also currently being undertaken, with comments invited until 30 October 2009.

View the proposed HDC Engineering manual  

Feedback Questionnaire

We would appreciate receiving your comments on the Draft Hauraki District Plan and invite you to complete the following Feedback Form and post (freepost) to Hauraki District Council by 30 October 2009.

Download the District Plan Feedback form(134KB).

If you have any queries with respect to completing this questionnaire, please contact Maureen Coleman at Hauraki District Council on (07) 862 5058.