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Volume 1 - Issues, Objectives, Policies and Rules

This volume contains introductory material about resource management within New Plymouth District. It describes those issues that the community has identified as being significant, and specifies how the policies, objectives and methods (including rules) will be used to manage them.

It also contains a chapter on implementation - explaining what resource consents are, how to apply for one, how they are processed, how the plan deals with cross-boundary issues, and monitoring issues - and a section of definitions to assist with interpretation of the plan.

Note: Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the District Plan available on our website have been edited to provide you with immediate access to updates that have not yet been printed and distributed to plan holders. Please read the unprinted updates to the District Plan table in conjunction with these documents.

• Plan update schedule (Eight pages 40KB PDF)
• Cover (Two pages 3MB PDF)
• Table of contents (Four pages 279KB PDF)
• How to use this plan (Six pages 414KB PDF)
• Introduction (12 pages 353KB PDF)
  - Description of the District
  - Plan Development Process
  - Purpose
  - Commencement
  - Jurisdiction
  - Statutory Framework
  - Other Documents
  - Role of Other Agencies
  - Plan Changes  
• Management strategy (116 pages 1.8MB PDF)
  - Issues, objectives, policies, methods, reasons, indicators and anticipated environmental results 
  - Amenity, Health and Safety - Issues 1-9
  - Hazardous Substances - Issue 10
  - Heritage - Issue 11
  - Natural Hazards - Issues 12 & 13
  - Natural Values - Issues 14-17
  - Public Access - Issue 18
  - Tangata Whenua - Issue 19
  - Traffic and Transport - Issues 20 & 21
  - Works and Services - Issue 22
  - Cross Reference Matrix: Policies to Rules
• Statutory acknowledgements (68 pages 4.8MB PDF)
  

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• How to use the Rules Tables (10 pages 444KB PDF)
  - Cross Reference Matrix: Activities to Overlays
  - Cross Reference Matrix: Rules Relative to Environment Areas 
• Overlays rules  (40 pages 895KB PDF)
• Residential Environment Area rules  (32 pages 623KB PDF)
• Rural Environment Area rules  (36 pages 664KB PDF) 
• Business Environment Area rules  (38 pages 616KB PDF)
• Industrial Environment Area rules  (32 pages 585KB PDF)
• Open Space Environment Area rules (34 pages 232KB PDF) 
• Implementation (20 pages 1.7MB PDF)
  - Types of Resource Consents
  - How to apply for a Resource Consent - Information Requirements
  - How an Application for a Resource Consent is Processed
  - Notification of Applications
  - Consultation - Good Practice
  - Designations
  - Cross-Boundary Processes
  - Monitoring and Review Processes
• Definitions (22 pages 1MB PDF)

  
   

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