Our nuisance bylaw contains rules for minimising nuisance in our public spaces and on private property. It contains rules around:
- Using public rubbish bins for household rubbish
- Using skating devices, bicycles and mobility scooters in public places
- Signage in public places
- Soliciting or carrying out work in a public place
- Vehicle crossings e.g. a driveway
- Animals in public places
- Damaging or interfering with vegetation
- Electric and barbed wire fencing
- Horses and vehicles on beaches
- Slaughter of animals
- Using our reserves
- Smoke nuisance
- Keeping stock, pigs, poultry and bees
Nuisance Bylaw 2019 (amended 2020) [PDF, 2.3 MB] 
Dispensation to keep pigs, poultry or bees
In accordance with the Nuisance Bylaw 2019 written permission for dispensation must be obtained using the application form below, to:
- Keep up to four pigs in a Low Density Residential Zone
- Build a pigsty or keep pigs closer than 50 metres to the property boundary in a Low Density Residential Zone
- Keep more than six head of poultry in an urban area
- Keep more than 12 head of poultry in a Low Density Residential Zone
- Keep bees in an urban area or Low Density Residential Zone
Application form for keeping pigs, poultry or bees in an urban/low density residential area [PDF, 103 KB]
