New buildings typically last many decades and development
layouts have an even longer lifespan. We all have to live with the
effects of a poorly designed house or development for a very long time.
Who Should Use This Design Guide?
This guide aims to support the District Plan by explaining the building blocks of prosperous, high-quality urban design. This may include the Council when it considers applications for Resource Consents.
This is a non-statutory guide which advocates quality design responses to typical development challenges in Rodney. It also describes how these can relate to processes under the Resource Management Act 1991, although the statutory District Plan remains the key document to consider in this regard.
The guide is broken into 5 key themes:
1. Introduction and urban design as a way to create great places
2. Sustainable management in Rodney
3. Issues that affect all development
4. Issues that affect specific development conditions
5. Committing to quality
To download the Design Guide, click here. 
(PDF 5.8mb)
Further Advice:
Some of the content of this manual uses technical terminology. Please don’t hesitate to contact the council for assistance using the Design Guide.
