The Rodney Rural Strategy is a reference document which is intended to help guide future planning in rural Rodney. It is not a statutory planning document and it does not change existing District Plan rules.
Rodney District Council prepared the Rural Strategy, with the help of a stakeholder reference group, as an aid to help the new Auckland Council to prepare the Auckland Spatial Plan (which will cover the region) and as a background document when any future changes to the District Plan are considered in Rodney.
90 submissions were received on the draft Strategy. As a result of these submissions a number of changes were incorporated into the final version of the Rural Strategy.
The Rural Strategy is a high level document about the issues that face Rodney in a broad sense and what we can do to manage these.
The Strategy looks at the whole of Rodney and identifies the special features of our District that we want to protect, the future demands for rural land for a variety of activities and considers how best to manage all of these pressures and preserve the rural character of Rodney.
Background Documents
The Council has prepared a draft Background Issues Paper which we sought public input on. Consultation on this document has now closed.
The background paper also has a number of appendices, listed below:
Appendix 1 - Landcover Areas in Rodney District
Appendix 2 - Building Consents Issued in Rural Zones
Appendix 3 - Subdivision in Rural Zones
Appendix 4 - Capital Value of Rural Land
Appendix 5 - Subdivision Capacity in Rural Zones
Appendix 6 - Covenanted and Unprotected Private Significant Natural Areas
Appendix 7 - Unprotected Significant Natural Areas
To read more detailed research which was used to help prepare the background issues paper, please click here.
