Proposed Plan Change 14

Residential Subdivision, Land Development Manual and Comprehensive Housing

Publicly notified 25 September 2010

Hearing for Residential Subdivision, Land Development Manual and Comprehensive Housing Plan Change 14

Hearing date: 28 November 2011

More information on plan change hearings and the process in general is available from the Ministry for the Environment website or by contacting Council staff at the details below. Please feel welcome to ask the Council for help if you need to – the RMA aims to achieve a better environment by getting Councils and communities working together.

The Officer’s s42A Report on submissions for the hearing can be downloaded from the link below (under “Original documents”).

Background

Plan Change 14 seeks to update and incorporate better urban design approaches into the Nelson Resource Management Plan, NCC’s Engineering Standards (now called the Land Development Manual 2010) and into Council administration and policy processes.

The main changes proposed are summarised as follows:
  • Adds a range of definitions to chapter 2 Meaning of Words.
  • Changes and additions to Chapter 3 Administration to update Council administration processes and relationships with external documents. This also includes changes to the Services Overlay description.
  • Inserts new urban design issues and explanation into Chapter 4 Resource Management Issues.
  • Amends and inserts new objectives, polices, methods, environmental results and performance indicators in Chapter 5 District Wide Objectives and Policies for Land Transport, Urban Design and Subdivision and Development.
  • Amends the Residential Zone policies and rule tables for streetscape, front yards, subdivision, comprehensive housing, fences and services and landscape overlays.
  • Amends Appendix 6 Riparian and Coastal Margins to add additional values for esplanade reserves.
  • Amends Appendices 10 Parking and Loading, 11 Access Standards and 12 Tracking Curves to update content and align with the NCC Land Development Manual 2010.
  • Deletes Appendix 13 Engineering Standards in favour of using the new NCC Land Development Manual, referenced as an external document.
  • Amends Appendix 14 to compliment the amended Residential Subdivision Rules and the NCC Land Development Manual, including the deletion of the roading table from the NRMP. A new roading table is located in the NCC Land Development Manual.
  • Amends Appendix 22 Comprehensive Housing to clarify the outcomes desired.
  • Externally reference throughout the Plan the NCC Land Development Manual 2010 as a means of compliance for controlled activity subdivisions, and as an assessment criterion for restricted discretionary and discretionary activity subdivisions. Amends all references to Appendix 14 throughout the Plan to instead reference to the new roading tables in the NCC Land Development Manual 2010.

Public information

Further submissions to Nelson Resource Management Plan Proposed Plan Changes are public information. Your further submission will be included in reports, which are available to the public and the media.

Documents and downloads

Original documents 

Contact person 

For more information contact the Planning Adviser +64 3 546 0375