Resource Management
Resource Management & Planning
Fees for Resource Consents and Infrastructure Contributions (These are
the 'buy-in costs' for new connections to services like sewerage and
water).
Infrastructure
Contributions
These are the forms that we require you to complete for various
activities. Please print the relevant forms(s) for your activity, complete
and post to us at PO Box 444, Masterton 5840. Or call us and we will post
the required form out to you (06) 370 6300.
Application for Resource
Consent - Form 9
Affected Persons
Consent Form
Submission on a Publicly
Notified Application - Form 13
Bonds - Subdivision
Bonds - Relocated
Dwelling
Process for
relocatable dwellinghouse or buildings
Information for Potentially
Affected Persons - Relocation of a Dwellinghouse or Building
District Planner - Sue Southey
Resource Planner - Glenn Bunny
Resource management and planning ensures the wise use, sustainable
management and protection of the resources of the district. It seeks to
ensure the implementation of policies which provide opportunities to
enhance the social, economic and cultural wellbeing of the people of the
district.
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Council has a primary responsibility for protecting the public health
and safety and promoting the sustainable management of physical and
natural resources of the district. It does this by enforcing minimum
standards of health and safety for buildings, food and liquor premises,
dangerous goods, dogs and rural fire control as well as preparing the
community to be able to cope with a civil defence emergency. Sustainable
management is promoted by preparing and enforcing the District Plan, by
monitoring resource consents and the state of local environment.
A Three-Fold Approach
1. District Plan
A key component affecting all Council's operations is the District
Plan. It is a written strategy to guide the implementation of the
Council's functions and responsibilities under the Resource Management Act
1991. It is prepared and administered by the Council to provide the
framework for the sound environmental use, development and protection of
the District's resources. Regional and national concerns and goals for
resource management also need to be considered.
District planning is most likely to affect the individual directly. The
plan itself is a legal document which takes the form of a district plan,
produced in a folder divided into two parts, the written rules and the
maps.
Although each district plan is different, reflecting very different
circumstances from a fully built-up part of Auckland to a wholly rural
county in the South Island, they all have certain features in common. Each
must consist of :-
- A management strategy explaining what the plan is intended to
achieve and what the council's policies are.
- Environmental Standards setting out the rules which apply to
the use and development of land.
- Planning maps illustrating the council's proposals and
showing the areas of the district to which particular controls apply.
Planning in Operation:
The district plan indicates the process by which any property can be
changed or developed.
The district plan can be useful to people choosing a new house or area
to live in. Anyone contemplating building, adding a flat or a room,
starting a business or making other changes would be well advised to
consult the district plan at an early stage of their proposal.
Plans divide the district into different areas according to the kinds
of activity which the Council wishes to encourage there. The simplest
plans may have only a rural and urban area; the most complex have several
different zones for alternative forms of housing, business or industry or
rural zones with different sizes of allotment.
The commonest zones are rural, residential, business, and industrial,
but there are many special zones to meet local uses and circumstances.
2. Annual Plan
The annual plan is prepared each year to inform the public about what
the Council's proposed major objectives, policies, work and financial
plans for the following year in particular and also for the next two years
in general.
The annual planning process is an important way for the Council to
clearly explain its priorities and to seek feedback through submissions.
3. Strategic Plan - "Towards 2020"
A strategic plan provides the Council with an overall direction fir its
planning. It provides an outline of Council's philosophy and direction by
way of medium/long term objectives.
A new approach was adopted in the 1997/98 Annual Plan, so that readers
could see more clearly how Council is working to achieve the outcomes
desired in satisfying the long term visions for the district as defined by
the "Toward 2020" strategy document. In particular, the annual
plan sets out clearly the "desired outcomes" or end results for
the range of activities outlined.
Most information on Council activities will now be organised under four
main headings consistent with the thinking used in "Toward 2020"
to define the strategic visions for the district. These headings are:
- Governance
- Social and Cultural Services
- Resource Management, Regulatory and Environmental Services
- Core Services
Long Term Financial Strategy and Funding Policy
A further departure from earlier annual plan documents is the provision
of information pertaining to the Council's Long Term Financial Strategy
(LTFS) and Funding Policy. They reflect an obligation imposed on Local
Government by the Local Government Amendment Act (No 3) 1996.
The Council had the option of achieving compliance with the legislation
by 30 June 1998, however it elected to pursue early compliance by 30 June
1997 along with a handful of other territorial authorities. Compliance
with the legislation will provide the Council with a greater degree of
flexibility in terms of both short and long term funding options.
A key objective of the longer term strategy is to ensure that all
assets are valued and regularly monitored and that long term maintenance
and upgrading plans are put in place so that the infrastructure remains
effective and efficient for future generations.
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