The Resource Management Act 1991
Summary of Decisions Requested in Submissions to Proposed Variation 132 to the District Plan 2000 – Operative in Part – West Coast Rural Policy Area
This Proposed Variation introduces a new policy area called ‘West Coast Rural Policy Area’. The policy area will apply to the General Rural Zone at South Head and to the General Rural Zone around the coast of the Kaipara Harbour. The identified areas are zoned ‘General Rural’ but are considered to be at risk of degradation of their rural and semi-remote character to a greater degree than other ‘General Rural’ areas. The subject areas are coming under increasing development pressure due to their coastal locality and proximity to metropolitan Auckland and this is further exacerbated by the growing expense of coastal development on the East Coast making the West Coast a more affordable alternative. Given these drivers, it is considered that an additional level of planning management is required to ensure that the rural and semi-remote character, environmental and amenity values are maintained both now and into the future.
The Proposed Variation was publicly notified on 10 September 2009, with the period for receipt of submissions closing on 23 October 2009.
The Council has received submissions to the above mentioned Proposed Variation 132. A summary of the decisions requested in these submissions is now available for public inspection on the website here under Proposed District Plan Variations. Any person may make a further submission in support of, or in opposition to, any of the submissions made.
Further submissions to Variation 132 – West Coast Rural Policy Area, must be lodged at an office of the Council not later than 4.00pm on Friday 18 December 2009.
Further Submission forms are available at each of the Council’s offices or on the website. The summary of the decisions requested in submissions to this Variation is available for public inspection at the Council’s offices at 50 Centreway Road, Orewa; Baxter Street, Warkworth; State Highway 16, Huapai; and Commercial Road, Helensville; and at all public libraries in Rodney District at any time when the above places are open to the public.
A full set of copies of the submissions is available for viewing at the Helensville Service Centre and the Wellsford Library in addition to Orewa Head Office. Enquiries relating to the submissions should, in the first instance be made to Sue Healy at the Rodney District Council, Policy and Planning Department, Centreway Road, Orewa, (telephone 0800 426 5169).