NRMP Council Plan Change 05/02

Operative 26 January 2008

Council formally approved change 05/02 to the Nelson Resource Management Plan on 20 December 2007, which is operative on 26 January 2008. 

Plan Change 05/02 originally comprised 50 individual proposed changes to the Plan. The changes are generally minor amendments to existing rules and policies, intended to clarify existing provisions in the Plan or to make them more workable. They also contain proposed new heritage listings, minor changes to reflect amendments to the Resource Management Act, plus one new rule about landfills.

Background

The Nelson City Council has resolved to amend the Nelson Resource Management Plan by way of a Plan Change, pursuant to Clause 5 of the First Schedule of the Resource Management Act 1991. The Council resolved to proceed with notification of this plan change. The proposed plan change was publicly notified on 29 October 2005.

Plan Change 05/02 originally comprised 50 individual proposed changes to the Plan, however change numbers 23 and 47 were withdrawn by Council.  These proposed changes are generally minor amendments to existing rules and policies, intended to clarify existing provisions in the Plan or to make them more workable. They also contain proposed new heritage listings, minor changes to reflect amendments to the Resource Management Act, plus one new rule about landfills.

Submissions closed on 16 December 2005. 15 submissions were received.  Download a summary of the submissions for proposed plan change 05/02 (PDF @ 117 KB). Further Submissions closed on 28 July 2006.  Five further submissions were received.

Submissions were received on the following items of Plan Change 05/02 (General):

Change numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 34, 42, 45, 46 and 49.

A hearing was held to address these submissions on 17 April 2007 and the Commissioner’s recommendations, dated 16 May 2007, were adopted by Council on 5 July 2007.

Public participation process

The process for public participation in the consideration of the proposal under the Act is as follows: following the closing date for submissions the Nelson City Council prepares a summary of submissions which was publicly notified. There was then an opportunity to make a further submission in support of or in opposition to the submissions already made. A public hearing was then held on 17 April 2007 and Council gave its decision on the proposed change, together with its reasons for accepting or rejecting submissions. Following the Council's decision, any person who has made a submission has the right to appeal the decisions on the proposal to the Environmental Court. Following the Council’s decision, replacement pages for the NRMP will be made available online, and to subscribers.

Any person was able to make a submission on the proposed change, or a ‘further submission’ either in support of or in opposition to a submission.

Find out more about public participation in the private plan change process on the Ministry for the Environment’s website or by contacting Nelson City Council’s Planning Assistant, +64 3 546 0388.

Find out more

If you have any queries about the proposal or the process to be followed, please contact Planning Assistant Environmental Policy, +64 3 546 0388.