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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 to 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. Council notified a Draft District Plan in October 2010 for public feedback. This feedback was reviewed in preparation for the Proposed District Plan. The Proposed District Plan was adopted at the Council meeting of 14 July 2010.
Proposed Variation No.1 to the Proposed District Plan was publicly notified on 15 October 2010.
The submission and further submission periods have closed.
Staff reports have been prepared and Hearings commenced on 18 October 2011.
Please check the calendar below for dates and the review process.
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Contact Council to find out more
If you want to contact Council to find out more information or to discuss the District Plan Review further, you can do any one of the following:
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Phone the dedicated District Plan Review 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.
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Email Council’s dedicated District Plan Review email address on districtplan@hauraki-dc.govt.nz
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Request a CD of the Proposed 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. View costs of copies.
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View the Summary of Decisions Sought in any of the Council Offices.
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
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