PART 1 - INTRODUCTION AND STRATEGIC DIRECTION

•Auckland Regional Policy Statement 

•Auckland Regional Plan: Air, Land Water 

•Auckland Regional Plan: Dairy Farm Discharges 

•Auckland Regional Plan: Coastal 

•Auckland Regional Plan: Sediment Control 

•Auckland City District Plan – Central area section 

•Auckland City District Plan – Isthmus section 

•Franklin District Plan 

•Manukau City District Plan 

•North Shore City District Plan 

•Rodney District Plan 

•Papakura District Plan 

•Waitākere City District Plan.

Auckland is growing rapidly. Since 2001, Auckland’s growth rate has been higher than other regions in New Zealand. The estimated population of Auckland in 2011 was 1,486,000¹ and is projected to increase by one million over the next 30 years.

•sustaining the potential of natural and physical resources (excluding minerals) to meet the reasonably foreseeable needs of future generations

•safeguarding the life supporting capacity of air, water, soil and ecosystems

•avoiding, remedying or mitigating any adverse effects of activities on the environment.”

•reciprocity or recognition of the essential bargain 

•rangatiratanga

•shared decision-making 

•partnership 

•active protection 

•ōritetanga

•options

•the right of development 

•redress. 

•management plans and strategies prepared under other Acts

•relevant entries in the Historic Places Register

•regulations relating to ensuring sustainability, or the conservation, management, or sustainability of fisheries resources (including regulations or bylaws relating to taiapure, mahinga mataitai, or other non-commercial Maori customary fishing)

•spatially identifying opportunities and constraints for activities and development in Auckland 

•identifying highly valued and regionally significant resources that the policies protect or manage 

•establishing clear and consistent priorities for resource use and protection by identifying boundaries and limits based on environmental values 

•establishing priorities for resource use where there are likely to be competing uses, such as competition for land between primary production and urban development 

•setting rules for regulating land use, subdivision and development. 

•managing future growth and development to achieve sustainable outcomes

•ensuring Auckland has the capacity to accommodate growth and development

•enabling the providers of significant regional resources to meet economic and social needs of the community while ensuring that adverse environmental effects are avoided, remedied, or mitigated

•improving urban efficiency. 

•to avoid adverse effects

•to mitigate the effects or

•where the resources are already affected, to remedy the adverse effects.

•the structure of the Unitary Plan

•area based planning tools

•how to identify the rules in the Unitary Plan that have immediate legal effect

•how to identify the regional policy statement, regional plan, regional coastal plan and district plan proviisons in the plan.

1.protects or relates to water, air or soil (for soil conservation) or

2.protects areas of significant indigenous vegetation or

3.protects areas of significant habitats of indigenous fauna or

4.protects historic heritage or

5.provides for or relates to aquaculture activities.

• regional policy statement _[rps]

• regional coastal plan _[rcp]

• regional plan _[rp]

• district plan _[dp]

•Issue 1 – enabling quality urban growth

•Issue 2 – enabling economic well-being

•Issue 3 – protecting our historic heritage, special character and natural heritage

•Issue 4 – addressing issues of significance to Mana Whenua

•Issue 5 – sustainably managing our natural resources

•Issue 6 – sustainably managing our coastal environment

•Issue 7 – sustainably managing our rural environment

•Issue 8 – responding to climate change

•enhances quality of life for individuals and communities

•optimises the efficient use of our existing urban area

•optimises the efficient use of existing and new infrastructure, particularly significant infrastructure

•maintains and enhances the quality of our environment, both natural and built

•maintains Māori communities, culture and values.

•high quality urban living experiences with sufficient amenities

•a range of housing to accommodate a diverse population

•mixed use, vibrant and coherent high density centres

•visibility of Auckland's cultural diversity in urban design

•increased travel choices and a reduction in reliance on private vehicles. 

•land availability

•the availability and costs of infrastructure

•the location of new housing areas in relation to public transport

•employment

•social and community infrastructure

•the sequence and timing of land release.

• opportunities to learn

•facilities for the prevention and treatment of illness and injury

•facilities to support the justice system

•places where the community can come together to discuss issues, to participate in recreation activities or to socialise. 

•the transport network

•electricity

•water and wastewater

•the telecommunication network

•the Port of Auckland

•Auckland Airport 

•Realise quality, compact urban environments

•Demand good design in all development

•Create enduring neighbourhoods, centres and business areas.

•Increase housing supply to meet demand

•Increase housing choice to meet diverse preferences and needs

•Improve the quality of existing and new housing

•Improve housing affordability and the supply of affordable housing.

•Protect, enable, align, integrate and provide social and community infrastructure for present and future generations

•Optimise, integrate and align network utility provisions and planning.

•Integrate transport planning and investment with land use development.

•land supply for economic productive activities

•inefficient use of land

•incompatible land uses

•traffic congestion which adds to costs and delays business

•infrastructure nearing its capacity

•limited supply of some natural resources

•security of energy supply

•the costs associated with implementation of the RMA.

•infrastructure costs rise

•land use is inefficient

•traffic congestion increases

•people in outlying areas spend more of their household income on travel

•capacity constraints on servicing new communities

•loss of rural productivity.

•rising fossil fuel prices

•natural disasters

•changing climatic conditions

•failure of the national grid.

•managing the land use and reverse sensitivity effects of development

•enabling the upgrading, maintenance and operation of new and existing energy supply infrastructure to improve physical security and resilience of supply, in particular the location of sensitive activities near electricity generation and transmission facilities

•enabling new facilities for generating electricity from renewable resources at a range of scales

•enabling small-scale energy generation such as solar panels.

•Grow a business friendly and well-functioning city

•Develop a creative, vibrant international city.

•Protect, enable, align, integrate and provide social and community infrastructure for present and future generations

•Optimise, integrate and align network utility provisions and planning.

•Manage Auckland's transport as a single system

•Integrate transport planning and investment with land use development

•Prioritise and optimise investment across transport modes.

•buildings and structures

•archaeological sites

•wāhi tapu and sites and places of significance to Mana Whenua

•cultural landscapes

•landscapes and features, such as gardens

•trees and vegetation

•maunga.

•changes in primary production, from pastoral farming to horticulture and viticulture

•more intensive use of rural areas for a range of non-production activities, particularly countryside living

•transformation from rural to urban uses at the urban edge

•redevelopment and intensification within urban areas

•development along the coastline and the islands' coastlines

•maintaining, upgrading existing or developing new significant infrastructure.

•many outstanding natural landscapes and features are working rural areas, or used for private residential, commercial, and industrial purpose and landowners want to continue using their land for these purposes

•there is pressure to accommodate increasing levels of subdivision, use, and development. The cumulative effects these activities have on the naturalness, quality and values of outstanding natural features and landscapes need to be considered

•balancing the need for significant infrastructure against the national importance of outstanding natural features and landscapes

•Mana Whenua desire to protect remaining natural landscapes as a part of retaining and passing on identity and sense of place.

•Auckland has proportionally more threatened plant species than any other region

•many of the most threatened plant species are herbs and shrubs adapted to disturbed, wetland or shrubland environments. They are often found in areas that appear degraded with little evident biodiversity value, and particularly vulnerable to loss through development

•many of our terrestrial ecosystems are largely contained in small, isolated patches, making them vulnerable to edge effects such as weed invasion and wind damage

•each year an estimated 9km of permanent stream length are lost through consented development. Further significant lengths of both permanent and non-permanent stream (intermittent and ephemeral) are also lost through development occurring as permitted activities. This loss reduces habitat, degrades ecological values and contributes to the decline in native fish populations

•some ecosystem types, even if still relatively abundant, are commonly in poor ecological health

•sedimentation has fundamentally changed the nature of coastal ecosystems in some areas and resulted in loss of coastal habitat diversity

•coastal and marine habitats are vulnerable to invasion by exotic organisms, and a number of marine pests are well-established in Auckland

•wetlands remain vulnerable to exotic plant invasion, stock trampling, and other adverse effects. Those under 1ha are particularly vulnerable to loss through drainage

•biodiversity is still declining in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park

•enabling Mana Whenua participation and decision-making in regard to indigenous biodiversity.

• managing the pressure to accommodate further development in the Waitākere ranges and their foothills

• managing the cumulative and precedent effects of development on the landscape, the desired future character and amenity of the Waitākere Ranges Heritage Area, and its natural environment

• providing for the social and economic well-being of the Waitākere Ranges Heritage Area local communities.

•Understand, value and share our historic heritage

•Invest in our historic heritage

•Empower collective stewardship of our historic heritage.

•Value our natural heritage.

•recognising the Treaty and enabling the outcomes that Treaty settlement redress is intended to achieve

•protecting Mana Whenua culture, landscapes and historic heritage

•enabling Mana Whenua economic, social and cultural development on Māori land and Treaty settlement land recognition of the interests and values of Mana Whenua, in the sustainable management of natural and physical resources including integration of mātauranga and tikanga in resource management processes, and customary rights

•increasing opportunities for Mana Whenua to play a role in decision-making, environmental governance, partnerships and participation

•enhancing the relationship between Mana Whenua and Auckland’s natural environment, including customary uses.

•the Crown has an obligation to actively protect Māori interests

•the establishment of Māori institutions can advance Māori culture and the principles of the Treaty

•active protection may also require applicants to investigate alternative options which do not affect Māori relationships with resources.

•cultural redress is intended to meet the cultural interests of the Mana Whenua group

•cultural redress aims to protect wāhi tapu (sites of spiritual significance) and wāhi whakahirahira (other sites and places of significance), possibly through tribal ownership or guardianship

•cultural redress recognises the special and traditional relationship of claimant groups with the natural environment, especially rivers, lakes, mountains, forests and wetlands

•cultural redress gives claimant groups greater ability to participate in resource management, and to make decision-makers more responsible for being aware of their relationship with resources

•cultural redress provides visible recognition of the claimant group within their area of interest

•commercial redress is intended to contribute to the economic and social development of Mana Whenua.

•commercial redress recognises that where claims for loss of land and/or resources are established, the Crown’s breaches of the principles of the Treaty will usually have held back the potential economic development of the claimant group

•commercial redress does not provide full compensation based on a calculation of total loss to Mana Whenua as this is not considered practicable or generally acceptable to the New Zealand public.

•transfer of Crown assets to the claimant group to help meet their economic interests

•transfer of Crown assets to the claimant group to help meet their cultural interests

•recognition of claimant groups’ interests in other ways – for instance, involvement in decision-making about resources of cultural significance, or the creation of statutory instruments.

•Establish papakāinga in Auckland

•Enable Māori aspirations for thriving and self-sustaining marae

•Enable Mana Whenua to participate in co-management of natural resources

•Explore partnerships with Mana Whenua to protect, identify and manage wāhi tapu.

•flooding from river inundation and overland flows

•storm surge

•coastal erosion

•land instability.

•Value our natural heritage

•Sustainably manage natural resources

•Build resilience to natural hazards

Some activities that generate significant benefits to the national and regional economy are dependent on a coastal location for their operation, including the commercial port, international airport, marine industry and aquaculture. The coastal environment also plays a significant role in the delivery of passenger transport services in Auckland.

•Sustainably manage our natural resources

•Treasure our coastline, harbours, islands and marine areas

•Build resilience to natural hazards.

•Create a sustainable balance between environmental protection, rural production and activities connected to the rural environment

•Support rural settlements, living and communities.

•greenhouse gas emissions need to reduce or the earth’s temperature will continue to rise and could reach a tipping point where the earth’s natural buffering systems are overcome and catastrophic climate change occurs

•even if we stop all greenhouse gas emissions now, experts estimate the earth would still need to adapt to at least 100 years of irreversible climate change.

•Drier springs and wetter summers, with more frequent storms and heavy rain increasing the potential for flash flooding.

•Droughts will become more common, placing increased pressure on our water resources.

•Sea levels may rise gradually, increasing exposure to storm surges, flooding and erosion in low-lying coastal land.

•Decline and changes in biodiversity and ecosystems, including shifting habitats in coastal areas as a result of sea level rise.

•Mitigate climate change

•Improve energy efficiency, security and resilience

•Adapt to a changing climate.

1. A quality compact urban form with a clear defensible limit (Rural Urban Boundary - RUB) to the urban expansion of the metropolitan area, satellite towns, rural and coastal towns and serviced villages.

2. Urban growth is primarily focussed within the metropolitan area 2010.

3. Land within and adjacent to centres, frequent public transport routes and facilities is the primary focus for residential intensification with a lesser degree of intensification in surrounding neighbourhoods.

4. The focus for urban growth outside of the metropolitan area 2010, is greenfield land within the RUB that is contiguous with the urban area and the satellite towns of Pukekohe and Warkworth.

1. Concentrate urban activities within, the metropolitan area 2010, the RUB, the satellite towns, rural and coastal towns and serviced villages.

2. Enable higher residential densities and the efficient use of land in neighbourhoods:

a. within and around centres and within moderate walking distances from the city, metropolitan, town and local centres

b. in areas close to the frequent public transport routes and facilities

c. in close proximity to existing or proposed large open spaces, community facilities, education and healthcare facilities

d. adequately serviced by existing physical infrastructure or where infrastructure can be efficiently upgraded.

3. Provide for and encourage residential intensification within centres while ensuring that:

a. there is a broad mix of activities within centres

b. residential activities do not compromise the ability for mixed use developments, or commercial activities to locate in centres

c. development uses land efficiently.

•Appendix 1.1 and 1.2 on structure plan guidelines and the metropolitan area 2010.

•RUB – RPS maps on the council GIS viewer to show the maximum extent of the urban area.

•The Unitary Plan will be changed to define the RUB around rural and coastal towns and serviced villages and other areas the council has deemed necessary.

•Zones objectives policies and rules for the Future Urban zone.

•creating a range of housing choices from apartment living to rural and coastal lifestyle opportunities 

•achieving a more integrated approach to land use and transport which improves transport efficiency and enhances accessibility

•protecting core environmental values such as air quality, water quality and biodiversity fostering improvements in productivity and creativity by having a network of businesses in proximity to each other, suppliers, customers and their employees and enabling the exchange of ideas

•providing certainty about areas that will be well supported by infrastructure investment

•protecting highly valued areas from development 

•creating greater social and cultural vitality in centres and neighbourhoods

•supporting access to open space, community facilities, and education facilities.

1. A quality built environment where development, including subdivision, across the site, street, block, neighbourhood and city scales:

a. recognises Auckland’s sense of place and enriches its landscape, character, heritage and legibility (identity)

b. provides for a rich mix of choice and opportunity for our communities and can adapt to changing needs (diversity)

c. considers and reinforces use, activity centres, energy systems and movement networks which are well connected and provide convenient and equal access for all (integration)

d. supports and optimises the full potential of a site’s intrinsic qualities, including its shape, landform, outlook and relationship to its surroundings (efficiency).

1. Require development to be designed to integrate all elements of a place, buildings or space into a coherently designed solution.

2. Design development to respond positively to the site, its context and the planned future character of the place, and to reinforce the role of the public realm as the primary place for public interaction.

3. Require development to contribute to the safety of the street and neighbourhood.

4. Encourage development which is designed for change of use through time.

5. Design development with a level of amenity that enables long term options for living and working.

6. Encourage development to be designed to have equal access for people of all ages and abilities.

7. Require a high standard of design in areas of residential and business intensification.

8. Enable the development of a range of built forms within neighbourhoods to support maximum choice and recognise different lifestyles.

9. Design streets and block patterns that maximise connectivity, provide for a range of travel options and have a high standard of amenity and safety for pedestrians and cyclists to promote walking and cycling.

10. Balance the place and movement functions of streets while emphasising their role as places for people over movement of vehicles in centres and areas of residential intensification.

11. Require large scale development, and encourage all other development, to minimise its environmental impact through best practice sustainable design which incorporates energy efficiency, renewable energy generation, waste minimisation and water sensitive design.

•Design statements

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies, rules and assessment criteria

•Zone objectives, policies, rules and assessment criteria

•Precinct objectives, policies, rules and assessment criteria.

•The Auckland Design Manual

•Design review panels including the Auckland Design Panel

•Programmes that provide the community with information and increase their understanding on design and sustainability issues.

1. Sufficient development capacity and land supply to accommodate projected population and business growth.

2. Up to 70 per cent of total new dwellings by 2040 occurs within the metropolitan area 2010.

3. Up to 40 per cent of total new dwellings by 2040 occurs outside of the metropolitan area 2010.

4. The development of land zoned future urban within the RUB occurs in an orderly, timely and planned manner.

1. Maintain sufficient unconstrained residential and business land within the RUB to accommodate an average of seven years land supply at any one time.

2. Enable the continued use of land zoned future urban within the RUB for rural activities until urban zonings are applied through a structure plan and plan change process, provided that rural subdivision, use and development does not compromise the future urban use of the land or lead to land fragmentation.

3. Avoid urban development within:

a.areas with significant environmental, heritage, natural character or landscape values, including areas identified in Appendix 3.1-3.2, Appendix 5.1, Appendix 6.2, Appendix 9.1 and land governed by the Waitākere Ranges Heritage Area Act

b.scheduled sites and places of significance to Mana Whenua

c.areas of significant mineral resources

d.elite land

e.close proximity to existing or planned significant infrastructure, particularly where residential activities would cause reverse sensitive effects

f. greenfield land or future urban land affected by coastal inundation and projected sea level rise

g. areas prone to natural hazards. Where avoidance cannot be achieved in areas prone to natural hazards, urban development must be done in such a way that, individually or cumulatively, protects people, property and the environment from significant risks of natural hazards.

4. Stage the structure planning and rezoning of future urban zoned land and the provision of infrastructure within the RUB, in accordance with the following principles:

a. land should be rezoned following the approval of a structure plan prepared by either the council, the private sector, or public private sector partnership in accordance with Appendix 1.1

b. rezoning and infrastructure provision should be done in a logical sequence, and out of sequence infrastructure provision should be specifically avoided

c. new urban growth within the RUB should be immediately adjacent to existing urban land unless the separation is necessary to:

i. avoid, remedy or mitigate significant conflict between activities

ii. ensure the efficient provision of infrastructure, including transport

iii. take account of the topography or other physical constraints

iv. avoid the areas outlined in Policy 3 above

d. there is sufficient development capacity and land supply for both business and housing in each sector i.e. north, central, west and south

e. the quantity of land being released at any one time will have regard to the scale and economies of servicing and developing the land

f. the urban form and range of housing choices desired for the area are met

g. the ability to supply housing that is more affordable to households on low to moderate incomes.

5. Require comprehensive planned development of greenfield land zoned for business and residential uses, through a structure plan process to ensure development is aligned with the provision of significant infrastructure, stormwater management and achieves a well planned quality community.

6. Require provision or upgrading of significant infrastructure to be coordinated with the structure and sequencing of growth and development, prior to the approval of an activity and/or development.

7.Enable growth in new urban zones while protecting existing significant infrastructure from reverse sensitivity effects.

•Appendix 1.1 and 1.2 on structure plan guidelines and the metropolitan area 2010.

•RUB – RPS maps on the council GIS viewer to show the maximum extent of the urban area.

•The Unitary Plan will be changed to define the rural urban boundary around rural and coastal towns and serviced villages and other areas the council has deemed necessary.

•Zone objectives policies and rules for Future Urban zone.

•A sub-regional analysis will be prepared by the council in conjunction with infrastructure providers, iwi, landowners, developers, central government and other stakeholders to integrate and prioritise land delivery and investment in infrastructure to support the development of brownfield and greenfield land.

•Review the council’s rating and development contributions policy.

•Investigate funding mechanisms to support urban development and the provision of infrastructure.

•Monitoring - development capacity and land supply.

1. Neighbourhoods contain quality homes that help meet the housing needs of current and future, low to moderate income households.

1. Encourage residential development to provide a range of dwelling types and sizes that help meet the housing needs of households on low to moderate incomes, including social housing and lower cost, market rate housing.

2. Require new large-scale residential development within the RUB and encourage all other development to provide a proportion of dwellings that are affordable for the intermediate housing market.

•Structure plan requirements

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for affordable housing.

•Regular regional housing needs assessment

•Provision of information on an annual basis house and site prices that would meet the definition of retained affordable housing

•Advocacy and liaison with central government, including housing accords

•Development of council owned land and joint ventures with the private and not-for-profit sectors.

•Social housing - normally rental units where the rents are substantially below market rates, providing accommodation for households that are on very low incomes and/or are substantially disadvantaged. Typically this involves Housing New Zealand, but also involves a number of social housing providers including local government. It can include temporary and emergency shelter. 

•Market rate affordable housing - housing that is offered for sale or rent on the open market without any form of subsidy or direct public assistance and which is affordable to households with moderate incomes because it is below median house prices due to its location, size and/or design.

•Affordable housing - housing that can be accessed by households who are part of the intermediate housing market without these households spending more than 30 per cent of their gross household income. Affordable housing can include a wide range of products such as shared ownership, shared equity, as well as controls on rental/capital growth that ensure that the units remains affordable into the long term. 

1. Growth in towns and villages is sustainable and efficient, capturing and enhancing the local character and sense of place of the town or village and the surrounding area.

2. Growth within un-serviced villages is contained within their urban zones existing at September 2013.

3. Growth in towns and serviced villages is contained within the RUB.

4. New towns and villages are avoided outside the RUB.

1. Require proposals for expanding existing rural and coastal towns and serviced villages, that have efficient and well-performing wastewater facilities with additional or planned and funded capacity, to be developed in a manner that:

a. achieves an orderly and contiguous connection with the existing settlement

b. achieves a clear break between other nearby towns and villages

c. incorporates affordable, feasible, sequenced and funded social and physical infrastructure

d. provides high resilience to future risks, avoiding locations with significant natural hazard risks for urban development

e. avoids urbanisation of elite and prime land, and maintains adequate separation between incompatible land uses

f. achieves high environmental performance and a high quality built environment

g. reinforces and enhances natural and physical characteristics, including the coastal environment

h. has good accessibility and improves transport options, including walking and cycling

i. enables papakāinga, marae developments, customary use, cultural activities and appropriate commercial activities on Māori land and on other land where Mana Whenua have collective ownership interest

j. is in accordance with the structure plan guidelines in Appendix 1.1

k. avoids identified sites, places and areas:

i. of significant ecological or heritage values

ii. of significance to Mana Whenua

iii. of outstanding natural features and landscapes

iv. of outstanding or high natural character

v. with significant mineral resources

vi. within an electricity transmission corridor.

2. Manage development in unserviced rural and coastal villages in a manner that:

a. provides for limited business development on a scale that serves the surrounding rural community

b. provides opportunities for local recreation

c. reinforces and enhances the defined natural and physical characteristics, including rural and coastal values associated with the village

d. encourages development of existing vacant lots

e. enables papakāinga, marae developments, customary use, cultural activities and appropriate commercial activities on Māori land and on other land where Mana Whenua have collective ownership interest.

3. Require any proposal for a new town or village outside of the RUB to go through a plan change process and to demonstrate that it:

a. meets Policy 1 with the exception of 1a.

b. does not compromise the achievement of the objectives and policies in section 2.2.1: Providing for growth in a quality compact urban form

c. can provide and fund the infrastructure requirements of the proposed development as well as any future planned development

d. can demonstrate sufficient demand for additional urban land within the sub-regional area

e. can provide accessible and adequate transport connections

f. is in accordance with the structure plan guidelines in Appendix 1.1

g. achieves environmental restoration and enhancement of degraded areas with an overall net benefit

h. provides attractive public open space, walking and cycling opportunities.

•Appendix 1.1 and 1.2 on structure plan guidelines and the metropolitan area 2010.

•RUB – RPS maps on the council GIS viewer to show the maximum extent of the urban area.

•The Unitary Plan will be changed to define the rural urban boundary around rural and coastal towns and serviced villages or other areas the council has deemed necessary.

•Zone objectives policies and rules for Future Urban zone.

•A sub-regional analysis will be prepared by the council in conjunction with infrastructure providers, iwi, landowners, developers, central government and other stakeholders to integrate and prioritise land delivery and investment in infrastructure to support the development of brownfield and greenfield land. 

•Monitoring - development capacity and land supply.

•providing opportunities for a variety of recreational activities such as sports, exercising, relaxing and socialising 

•providing public access to the coastline, islands and beaches 

•providing amenity and respite 

•protecting and enhancing our natural and cultural heritage, landscapes and ecological values.

•parks and reserves, which include local and regional parks, bush and wilderness areas e.g. Long Bay, Murphy’s Bush, Otuataua Stonefields, Western Springs and the Waitākere Ranges

•sports parks, which include sports fields, hard courts and greens e.g. Victoria Park and Lloyd Elsmore Park

•the margins of waterways and the coast, which includes esplanade reserves, beaches and costal walkways, including land previously reclaimed e.g. Takapuna Beach Reserve, Mission Bay and Manukau coastal walkways

•civic spaces, which include civic squares and plazas e.g Aotea Square.

•greenways, which include a network of walkways, trails, cycleways and bridle tracks e.g. the Coast to Coast Walkway

•islands and volcanic cones/maunga e.g. Maungawhau (Mt Eden) and Rangitoto island.

•bowling greens and golf courses

•club rooms, changing facilities and toilets, boat ramps and parking areas

•swimming pools e.g. Tepid Baths and West Wave, Henderson

•recreation centres e.g. Massey Leisure Centre 

•event and entertainment facilities e.g. Waikaraka Park.

1. A high quality network of public open spaces and recreation facilities that enhances quality of life for the diverse communities of Auckland, and contributes positively to Auckland's unique identity.

2. The protection and enhancement of the natural environment of public open spaces and cultural heritage places.

3.The recreational needs of Aucklanders are met through the provision of sufficent public open space, particularly in intensified urban areas.

4. Public access to Auckland’s coastline, foreshore, beaches and special natural areas is maintained and enhanced.

5. Mana Whenua values and associations with public open space are identified and enhanced.

1. Enable a wide range of public open spaces and recreation facilities to deliver a variety of activities, experiences and functions for Auckland’s residents and visitors to enjoy.

2. Increase the public open space network and recreation facilities in areas where there is an existing deficiency, particularly in areas of intensification or growth, or where there is a future identified need.

3.Ensure the public open space network contains representative examples of the diverse landscapes, heritage (archaeological, historic and cultural) and natural values (ecological and biodiversity) of the Auckland region, and provides opportunities for people to ineract with and appreciate this heritage.

4. Ensure Auckland has high quality and diverse public open space and recreation facilities sufficient to meet the needs of its growing and changing population.

5. Ensure public open space and recreation facilities are in locations accessible to users.

6. Connect public open spaces physically and visually, to create a network that enables people and wildlife to move around efficiently and safely.

7. Protect and enhance the landscape, heritage (archaeological, historic and cultural) and natural values (ecological and biodiversity) of Auckland’s public open spaces.

8. Design and develop public open spaces and recreation facilities that:

a. are safe and attractive to users

b. reflect the character of the area and needs of the community in which they are located

c. incorporate the principles of sustainability so that designs are adaptable, multifunctional and use resources efficiently

d. are accessible to people of all ages and abilities.

9. Enable the provision of utility services necessary to service public open spaces and recreation facilities.

10.Collaborate with Mana Whenua to identify and manage all areas of public open space with Māori cultural heritage values in accordance with mātauranga and tikanga

11. Develop public open spaces which reflect Mana Whenua values, including:

a. providing for cultural institutions, including marae

b. restoring and enhance ecosystems and indigenous biodiversity, particularly taonga species

c. providing natural resources for customary use

d. providing opportunities for residents and visitors to experience Māori cultural heritage, while protecting Māori cultural heritage and sites and features of significance to Mana Whenua.

12. Require land use or development on surrounding land does not compromise the natural and cultural heritage values, landscape values, or recreational opportunities of public open space or recreation facilities, or access to them.

13. Facilitate public access and enjoyment of the margins of lakes, rivers, streams and the coast by:

a. providing areas of public open space that have high amenity values in these locations, including new parks and multi-use trails

b. enabling facilities that support water recreation activities to ensure they are appropriately located and designed e.g. boat ramps

c. ensuring landscape and natural values are protected.

14. Enable public access to, and along, the margins of lakes, rivers and streams unless restricting access is necessary to:

a. protect public health and safety

b. provide for defence, port or airport purposes

c. protect identified significant historic heritage or natural heritage values

d. protect sensitive natural areas or habitats

e. protect identified sites, values and activities of significance to Mana Whenua, or Māori cultural heritage

f. have a level of security necessary to carry out an activity or function that has been established or provided for.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for: infrastructure, transport; network utilities and energy, subdivision, artworks, lighting, noise and vibration, signs and temporary activities.

•Zones objectives, policies and rules for: public open space, social infrastructure and major recreation facilities.

•Overlays objectives, policies and rules for: historic heritage, outstanding natural features, outstanding natural landscapes, volcanic viewshafts, significant ecological areas, Auckland War Memorial viewshaft, and indicative roads and open space.

•Precincts objectives, policies and rules for: public open space, social infrastructure precincts and major recreation.

•Taking esplanade reserves when land is being subdivided or developed.

•Designations by Auckland Council for regional parks and public open space.

•Public Safety and Nuisance Bylaw 

•Reserve Act status and preparation of Reserve Management Plans (Reserves Act 1977).

•Orders in Council for regional parks.

•Auckland Conservation Management Strategy and conservation management plans.

•City Centre Master Plan

•Parks and Open Spaces Acquisition Policy

•Parks and Open Spaces Strategic Action Plan

•Sport and Recreation Strategic Action Plan

•Open Space Network Plans

•Provision Guidelines

•Greenway Plans

•Weed Management Plan

•Operational Guidelines

•Indigenous Biodiversity Strategy

•Asset Management Plans

•Historic Heritage Plan

•developing, maintaining and operating the public open space network and recreation facilities (Long Term Plan, Annual Plan)

•development contributions policy.

•central government – tertiary institutions, hospitals, schools, courts and prisons 

•council – public art galleries and museums, community centres, libraries and youth centres 

•private providers – private schools, places of worship and hospitals. 

•opportunities to learn 

•facilities for the prevention and treatment of illness and injury

•facilities to support the justice system 

•places where the community can come together to discuss issues, to participate in recreation activities or to socialise. 

1. A high quality network of social infrastructure that meets Aucklanders’ needs both locally and regionally.

2. Social infrastructure is located where it is accessible by a range of transport modes.

1. Make social infrastructure accessible to users by providing for:

a. local small-scale social infrastructure so they are accessible to local communities e.g. medical centres, places of worship, care centres, primary schools, community halls

b. medium-scale social infrastructure e.g. civic buildings, libraries and art galleries in the city centre and in metropolitan and town centres

c. larger-scale land extensive social infrastructure e.g. hospitals, universities, large community churches and secondary schools in locations where the existing and/or proposed roading network has sufficient capacity, and in close proximity to the public transport network and the walking and cycling networks.

2. Provide Auckland with sufficient social infrastructure to meet the needs of its growing population by:

a. enabling intensive use and development of existing and new social infrastructure sites

b. working with providers to plan and fund social infrastructure to meet future growth needs in brownfield and greenfield areas

c. requiring adaptable multi-functional buildings to meet changing needs and provide for co-sharing and co-location (where this is supported by the provider)

d. identifying new growth areas well in advance of their development so that forward planning of the provision of social infrastructure can occur via tools such as structure planning and designations to secure sites for future social infrastructure.

3. Enable the efficient use of land and facilities by providing for complementary activities to occur on social infrastructure sites.

4. Improve connections between social infrastructure and public transport, cycling and walking networks.

5. Manage the transport effects of large scale social infrastructure in an integrated manner.

6. Require social infrastructure to:

a. be safe and functional for its users

b. be sympathetic to the character, both existing and future, of the area and community in which it is located

c. incorporates the principles of sustainable building design

d. maintain the amenity of any adjoining streets and sites.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for: infrastructure, transport; network utilities and energy, subdivision, artworks, lighting, noise and vibration, signs, universal access, sustainable design and temporary activities.

•Zones - objectives, policies and rules for: rural, residential, business, city centre and future urban, cemetery, healthcare facility, major recreation facility, schools, universities and Māori purpose.

•Overlays - objectives, policies and rules for: airport approach path, aircraft noise areas, city centre port noise, high land transport noise and Māori land.

•Precincts - objectives, policies and rules for: observatory, learning, zoo and MOTAT, Auckland Museum and Ngati Whatua o Ōrākei.

•Designations by Requiring Authorities – such as Auckland Council, and the Ministers of Corrections, Courts, Education, Police, Social Development and Tertiary Education for sites to accommodate social infrastructure facilities. 

•Public Safety and Nuisance Bylaw. 

•City Centre Master Plan

•Community Facility Network Plans

•asset management plans

•National Infrastructure Plan 2011

•Developing, maintaining and operating council owned social infrastructure and community facilities (Long Term Plan, Annual Plan)

•Development Contributions Policy

•that sufficient land for differing business activities is available to provide for social and economic well-being

•an efficient urban form is achieved and productivity is maximised 

•new development and commercial intensification and expansion is managed to achieve high amenity, efficiency and compact urban form.

1. Employment and business opportunities meet the current and future needs of Aucklanders.

2. Commercial growth is focussed within a hierarchy of centres and identified growth corridors that support the compact urban form.

3. Industrial growth occurs in appropriate locations that:

a. promote sustainable and ongoing economic development

b. provide for the efficient use of buildings, land and infrastructure in business areas

c. avoid conflicts between incompatible activities.

1.Encourage commercial intensification to occur in the city centre, metropolitan and town centres, and enabled on identified growth corridors, to provide the primary focus for Auckland's commercial growth.

2.Encourage the growth of commercial activities that serve the function, role and amenity of the city centre, and metropolitan and town centres (including new centres).

3.Sustain and enhance the role and function of centres as focal points for community interaction, by ensuring development within centres positively contributes to:

a.an attractive, functional and efficient urban environment with a distinctive sense of place, and a quality public realm

b.a diversity of activities including retail, with the greatest mix and concentration of activities in the City Centre, and a distribution of compact centres that provide for the needs of Auckland and its communities

c.increased employment opportunities with compatible residential development

d.a character and form that supports or serves compact mixed use environments

e.the efficient use of land, buildings and infrastructure and the redevelopment of sites

f.economic development and business activity

g.high quality street environments including pedestrian and cycle networks and facilities.

4.Require development within identified growth corridors to primarily be of a character and form that supports or serves compact mixed use environments.

5.Provide for the outward expansion of metropolitan and town centres having regard to whether it:

a.will provide for compact mixed-use environments on the periphery of the centre

b.will provide for a greater level of access by a community to a wide range of facilities, goods and services in a convenient and efficient manner

c.facilitates the efficient and sustainable distribution of centres, in relation to the existing distribution of commercial activity and population growth

d.retains or enhances the existing centre’s role and function

e.adversely impacts the role, function and viability of other centres in the hierarchy

f.manages the effects of commercial activity at the interface with adjoining land uses

g.substantially reduces the opportunity for medium to high density residential development

h.maintains the safety and efficiency of the road network in a way that promotes integrated transport, by providing strong connections to a range of transport modes including walking and cycling, and enabling efficient connections to the existing public transport network to link with adjoining centres and identified growth corridors.

6.Provide for new town and local centres within the RUB where they:

a.are in proximity to existing or planned medium to high density residential development

b.will be appropriately located in relation to the existing network of centres and population growth to achieve a sustainable distribution of centres

c.will provide a diverse function and role complementing the established network of centres

d.will avoid adverse effects, both individually and cumulatively with other centres, on the distribution, function, viability and amenity of other centres, and on existing and planned infrastructure including the road network, public transport networks and utilities infrastructure

e.are of a form and function which is consistent with Policy 3 above

f.improve transport choices and reduce trip generation by providing strong connections to a range of transport modes including walking and cycling, and enabling efficient connections to the existing public transport network to link with adjoining centres and identified growth corridors.

7.New commercial activities are, where appropriate, to be enabled on identified growth corridors:

a.in business and mixed use zones, having regard to:

i.any strategic or significant adverse effects, including cumulative effects, of non-centre commercial activities on the functions and roles of the city centre, metropolitan and town centres

ii.community social and economic well-being and accessibility

iii.the efficient use and provision of land and infrastructure so that the effects of commercial development do not undermine the infrastructural capacity for other development provided for in the area

iv.impacts on transport efficiency, including public transport and the road network

v.the impacts of the development on the efficient use of any scarce industrial land, in particular opportunities for employment for land extensive industrial activities

vi.avoiding conflicts between incompatible activities

vii.the effects on residential activity.

b.in residential zones, having regard to:

i.those matters listed in (a)

ii.the need to be of a form and scale compatible with residential character.

8.Where appropriate, commercial activities are to be enabled in Business and Mixed Use zones in locations other than the city centre, metropolitan and town centres and identified growth corridors, in particular in neighbourhood and local centres and those major transport corridors not identified as growth corridors, having regard to:

a.the matters listed in Policy 7 above

b.the extent to which activities would compromise the achievement of Policy 1 and 2 above

c.the extent to which the hierarchy of locations identified in Policies 1-7 above may be compromised.

9.Enable sufficient supply of land for industrial activities, particularly land-extensive industrial activities, where the scale and intensity of effects anticipated in those zones can be accommodated and managed.

10.Locate industrial land where it is relatively flat, and there is quick and efficient access to freight routes, rail or freight hubs, ports and airports.

11.Provide for the efficient use of scarce industrial land and avoid incompatible activities by:

a.limiting the scale and type of non-industrial activities on land zoned for light industry

b.preventing non-industrial activities establishing on land zoned for heavy industry.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for: Air quality, General, Parking, Loading and Access, and Subdivision 

•Zone objectives, policies and rules for: City Centre, Metropolitan Centre, Town Centre, Local Centre, Neighbourhood Centre, Mixed Use, General Business, and Business Park.

•Overlay objectives, policies and rules for: Additional Zone Height Controls, City Fringe Office and Identified Growth Corridor

•Precinct objectives, policies and rules for: Business and Comprehensive Precincts

•Local Alcohol Plans 

•Commercial Sex Industry, Food Safety, Health and Hygiene, Signs, Solid Waste, Street Trading

•Centre plans

•Precinct plans 

•Reference documents e.g. National Guidelines for Crime Prevention through Environmental Design in New Zealand.

•Align Long Term Plan processes including infrastructure funding processes with the development of City Centre, Metropolitan and Town Centres and Identified Growth Corridors.

1. To achieve a distribution of business activity that integrates with:

a. strategic servicing and transport infrastructure;

b. existing centre locations; and

c. higher density residential living.

2. There is strong demand for business and commercial activities in Auckland and if these are left unplanned there is an increased cost to the community.

1.Resilient infrastructure and a high quality service.

2. The benefits of significant infrastructure which service the wider community, Auckland or New Zealand are recognised, including:

a. the essential services provided by infrastructure networks, which provide for the functioning of communities, businesses and industry

b. enabling economic growth

c. providing for public health, safety and the well-being of people and communities

d. contributing to a well functioning and liveable Auckland

e. protecting the quality of the natural environment

f. enabling interaction and communication.

3. Development, operation, maintenance, and upgrading of significant infrastructure is provided for and enabled, while managing any adverse effects it may have on:

a. areas with significant landscape, cultural and historic heritage, and natural ecological and biodiversity values

b. the health, safety and amenity of communities.

4. Renewable electricity generation is enabled, and energy efficiency and conservation promoted.

5. Infrastructure planning and development is integrated and co-ordinated at an early stage with land use and development to support residential and business growth.

6. Auckland’s significant infrastructure is protected from reverse sensitivity effects and incompatible subdivision, use and development.

7. The locational or function-based requirements of significant infrastructure are recognised.

1.Provide for the efficient development, use, operation, maintenance and upgrading of secure and reliable infrastructure.

2.Increase the resilience and security of infrastructure through work that:

a.enhances the reliability of networks and services

b.improves Auckland’s ability to respond and recover from unexpected and adverse events

c.manages the risks associated with natural hazards and the effects of climate change.

3.Integrate significant infrastructure with land use development by ensuring it is:

a.planned and funded at an early stage with land use provisions to provide for growth

b.provided to service land use development within the RUB

c.located in a way that does not fragment or limit planned land development within the RUB

d.timed to avoid the inefficiencies and costs associated with servicing unplanned development or development that has occurred out of sequence.

4.Recognise and provide for the operational and technical requirements of significant infrastructure.

5.Provide for the locational requirements of significant infrastructure by recognising that it often has a functional need to be located in certain places.

6.Require integration and co-ordination between the council, transport agencies and infrastructure providers on the maintenance, upgrade, and future development, of significant infrastructure.

7.Avoid reverse sensitivity effects by requiring subdivision, use and development to not occur in a location or form that constrains the use, operation, maintenance and upgrading of existing and planned significant infrastructure.

8.Where new or major upgrades to significant infrastructure are proposed within those overlays identified to protect landscapes, natural and historic heritage, ecological, biodiversity values, and scheduled sites and places of significance to Mana Whenua, the following matters must be considered when balancing the development against the protection of these places:

a.the economic and social benefits derived from significant infrastructure

b.whether the significant infrastructure has a functional need to be located in the proposed location

c.the need for utility connections across or through such areas to enable an effective and sustainable network

d.whether there are any reasonably practicable alternative locations, routes or designs, which would reduce any adverse effects

e.the extent of existing adverse effects

f.the type, scale and extent of adverse effects on the values of the area, taking into account:

i.scheduled sites and places of significance to Mana Whenua

ii.significant public open space areas, including harbours

iii.hilltops and high points that are publicly accessible scenic lookouts, particularly where the infrastructure involves tall structures, such as towers and poles

iv.high-use recreation areas

v.natural ecosystems and habitats

vi.the extent to which the adverse effects can be avoided, remedied or mitigated.

9.Manage the adverse effects on the health and safety of communities and amenity values from new and/or major upgrades to significant infrastructure.

10.Encourage the co-location and co-siting of infrastructure in existing and new urban areas, and the use of existing infrastructure corridors, subject to operational and technical feasibility.

11.Provide for renewable electricity generation activities to occur at different scales and from different sources, including small and community-scale renewable generation activities.

12.Promote energy efficiency and conservation measures by:

a.creating a compact and efficient urban form that is integrated with a multi-modal transport system and supports more energy efficient transport modes such as public transport, walking and cycling

b.incorporating energy efficiency and conservation initiatives into site and building design.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for: network utilities and electricity generation facilities and subdivision

•Zone objectives, policies and rules for the Airport zone and application of zones to minimise reverse sensitivity effects on significant infrastructure

•Overlay objectives, policies and rules for the: Electricity Transmission Corridor overlay, Aircraft Noise overlay, Approach Path overlay 

•Precinct objectives, policies and rules for the Airport precincts and Rodney Thermal Energy precinct

•Designations by Network Utility Operators.

•National Environmental Standards for Electricity Transmission Activities and Telecommunications Facilities.

•The NZECP 34:2001

•National Code of Practice for Utility Operators’ Access to Transport Corridors

•Preparation of plans and strategies on infrastructure e.g. Digital Enablement Strategy

•Advocacy to central government on the undergrounding of transmission lines in the urban area

•Education of communities around noise associated with ports and airports 

•Council led forums and working groups on infrastructure

•Liaison with Road Controlling Authorities and infrastructure providers to manage competing pressures for use of the road corridor.

•state highways, all other roads, rail, ports, airports and airfields, public transport (land and sea), parking spaces and structures, accessways, cycle and pedestrian routes, and all of their related facilities. 

•broader elements including transport users and their behaviours, and the interaction between land use activities and transport networks. 

1. An effective, efficient and safe transport system that supports the integrated movement of people, goods and services throughout Auckland and to other regions and nations.

2. An effective, efficient and safe integrated transport system that is integrated with, and supports, a quality, compact form of urban growth and associated land use.

3. A well developed, operated and maintained transport system that manages potential adverse effects on the natural environment and the health, safety and amenity of people and communities.

4. A transport system that facilitates transport choices and enables accessibility and mobility for all sections of the community.

1. Enable the effective, efficient and safe development, operation and maintenance of an integrated intra-regional and inter-regional transport system including:

a. state highways and all other roads, including the rural road network

b. the rail network

c. Auckland Airport and Auckland and Onehunga ports, including their local, national and international trade, freight and visitor connections

d. smaller airports, airfields and port facilities

e. the public transport network, including the development and operation of bus and train stations and stops, bus way, park and rides, ferry wharves and terminals

f. pedestrian and cycle networks.

2. Support the management of Auckland’s transport system to optimise, in an effective, efficient and safe manner, the people and/or goods carrying capacity of transport routes recognising the full range of trips being undertaken throughout Auckland by all sections of the community.

3. Require activities sensitive to noise to be located or designed to avoid, remedy or mitigate potential adverse effects arising from the use and operation of strategic transport infrastructure.

4. Identify and protect areas and routes critical for developing Auckland’s future transport infrastructure including:

a. high quality transport corridors that improve connections between:

i. Auckland and Northland

ii. Auckland and the Waikato

iii. east Auckland to west Auckland

iv. The city centre, the Auckland International Airport and Manukau Metropolitan centre (including State Highway 1)

v. The North Shore and the city centre, and the city centre to the Auckland Isthmus

b. improvements to the rapid and frequent service network

c. regional and inter-regional walking and cycling connections.

5. Recognise the arterial road network needs to be managed to provide priority to public transport and freight movements.

6. Protect existing and future rail and shipping corridors and air flight paths so they can meet future passenger and/or freight and trade demand.

7. Manage the increase in transport movements associated with development which is in accordance with the quality compact form of urban growth provided for in the Unitary Plan while recognising that there may be increased delays in some locations and during some periods of the day.

8. Provide for the development of additional road capacity along those corridors where:

a. the management of travel demand alone is not able to provide for increased movement

b. the effective, efficient and safe movement of public transport services and/or freight is required

c. there is a need to provide priority to cyclists and pedestrians.

9. Improve the integration of land use with transport by:

a. the delivery of a transport system that is planned, funded, staged to enable the delivery of quality urban growth as outlined in section 2 - Enabling quality urban growth. 

b. ensuring activities likely to generate significant trip numbers support, and can be serviced by the rapid and frequent service network

c. managing activities along freight routes, other heavily trafficked roads, rail lines, or adjacent to ports and airports so that they do not compromise the effective, efficient and safe operation of these routes or give rise to reverse sensitivity effects

d. requiring proposals for high trip generating developments, located outside of centres and/or not provided for in the Unitary Plan, to demonstrate integration with the transport network and mitigate adverse effects on that network.

10. Avoid, remedy or mitigate the potential adverse effects associated with the use or operation of transport infrastructure on community health by:

a. developing an urban form which supports more energy efficient and active modes of transport, such as buses, walking and cycling, and provides opportunities to reduce both the number and length of vehicle trips

b. requiring new roads to incorporate noise mitigation to protect sensitive activities from adverse noise effects.

11. Avoid, remedy or mitigate potential adverse effects from the transport system on community safety by:

a. ensuring all transport infrastructure (including new vehicle access) is designed to facilitate the safe movement of people and goods by managing potential conflicts between pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles

b. ensuring safe and secure environments for transport projects

c. providing for the transport needs of people with special mobility requirements, including the young, aged and those with disabilities

d. providing for maintenance and construction works to be undertaken in a manner that reduces conflict with the movement of pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles.

12. Avoid, remedy or mitigate the potential adverse effects of transport infrastructure on amenity values and ensure that transport infrastructure is designed, located and managed to:

a. integrate with adjoining land uses taking into account their planned use, intensity, scale, character and amenity

b. effectively provide pedestrian and cycle connections.

13. Support land use development and patterns that reduce the rate of growth in demand for private vehicle trips, especially during peak periods.

14. Improve the attractiveness and efficiency of more sustainable transport options, such as buses, trains, ferries, cycling and walking, by:

a. enabling an integrated public transport network to service all urban areas

b. limiting parking supply in locations served by the rapid and frequent service network

c. incorporating pedestrian and cycle networks and facilities in public and private developments

d. providing for improved integration between public transport and the pedestrian and cycle networks.

15. Recognise that where access to activities cannot be made effectively, efficiently or safely by public transport, walking or cycling, trips will continue to be made by private vehicle.

•General provisions information requirements for Integrated Transport Assessments refer to General Provisions - section 2.7.9.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for: transport, including parking, loading and access; network utilities; subdivision

•Zone objectives, policies and rules for the: Strategic Transport Corridor, Minor Port, Ferry Terminal, Airport

•Overlay objectives, policies and rules for: High Land Transport Noise; Airport (approach paths and noise notification areas); City Centre Port Noise; Indicative Roads and Open Space 

•Precinct objectives, policies and rules for the Airport, and the Port 

•Designations by Auckland Transport and other transport agencies

•Transport related bylaws by Auckland Transport and Auckland Council 

•Transport programmes, plans and strategies by Auckland Transport undertaken under other statutes (non-RMA)

•Management and operation of Auckland’s transport system by Auckland Transport as Road Controlling Authority.

•Transport Codes of Practice

•Comprehensive parking management plans, transport plans, corridor management plans, and network plans by Auckland Transport.

•Coordination with NZTA and KiwiRail to deliver a single transport system

•Advocacy to central government, NZTA and KiwiRail about route protection and funding of priority transport projects.

•Developing, maintaining and operating the transport network and transport services, including parking facilities, by Auckland Transport and Auckland Council.

•the identification and protection of significant historic heritage places 

•appropriate ongoing use and management of historic heritage places.

1. Auckland’s significant historic heritage places are identified and protected.

2. Significant historic heritage places are used appropriately and owners and the community are encouraged to actively protect and conserve these places.

1. Identify and protect Auckland’s historic heritage places through a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, considering all historic heritage values that contribute to the significance of a place.

2. Identify a place as having historic heritage value if it has one or more of the following values:

a. historical: The place reflects important or representative aspects of national, regional or local history, or is associated with an important event, person, group of people or idea or early period of settlement within New Zealand, the region or locality

b. social: The place has a strong or special association with, or is held in high esteem by, a particular community or cultural group for its symbolic, spiritual, commemorative, traditional or other cultural value

c. Mana Whenua: The place has a strong or special association with, or is held in high esteem by, Mana Whenua for its symbolic, spiritual, commemorative, traditional or other cultural value

d. knowledge: The place has potential to provide knowledge through scientific or scholarly study or to contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New Zealand, the region, or locality

e. technology: The place demonstrates technical accomplishment, innovation or achievement in its structure, construction, components or use of materials

f. physical attributes: The place is a notable or representative example of a type, design or style, method of construction, craftsmanship or use of materials or the work of a notable architect, designer, engineer or builder;

g. aesthetic: The place is notable or distinctive for its aesthetic, visual, or landmark qualities

h. context: The place contributes to or is associated with a wider historical or cultural context, streetscape, townscape, landscape or setting.

3. Evaluate historic heritage places for their overall significance against the historic heritage values, and include the places in the Historic Heritage overlay if they are found to be of considerable overall significance to the locality or greater geographic area.

4. Define the physical extent of a historic heritage place as the geographic area that is primary to the function, meaning and relationships of the place, including a defined area around features where appropriate.

5. Include significant historic heritage places, including areas, in the schedule of historic heritage places. The schedule has three categories:

a. Category A – places are of exceptional overall significance to the Auckland region or greater geographic area

b. Category B – places are of considerable overall significance to a locality or greater geographic area

c. Historic heritage areas - groupings of inter-related, but not necessarily contiguous, places or features that collectively meet the Category A or B criteria above. Areas may include both contributing and non-contributing places or features, places individually scheduled as Category A or B places, and notable trees.

6.Avoid significant adverse effects to significant historic heritage places. Significant adverse effects include:

a.the loss, destruction or substantial reduction of historic heritage values through:

i.the destruction of, or substantial reduction in, the physical integrity of the place

ii.the partial, total or substantial demolition of features that contribute to the significance of the place

iii.the relocation of a primary feature away from its original site and context

iv.the loss or substantial reduction of the setting of the place

v.inappropriate modifications, additions or alterations, and new development such as structures

vi.a lack of conservation and appropriate maintenance

vii.the loss of interiors fundamental to the historic heritage value of the place

viii.the destruction of, or substantial reduction in, the spiritual associations held by Māori/Mana Whenua and/or the community with the place

b.the cumulative effect of the loss or degradation of significant historic heritage places.

7.Encourage and support the community and owners of significant historic heritage places to protect, conserve, and maintain the place through mechanisms such as:

a.covenants

b.applying for funding or heritage grants

c.obtaining expert advice on the conservation of historic heritage places.

8.Encourage the planning and implementation of new development to have regard to the protection and conservation of any surrounding or adjacent significant historic heritage places.

9.Adopt a precautionary approach to subdivision, use or development:

a.in areas that may have unidentified significant historic heritage places

b.when it is of a scale that may result in adverse effects on significant historic heritage values

c.where there is insufficient information available to fully understand the extent and significance of historic heritage values and the effects on those values.

10.Manage subdivision, use, or development when a place of potential historic heritage value is discovered to avoid damage or destruction of the place until the level of significance is evaluated and appropriate actions are determined.

11.Encourage a coordinated approach with Mana Whenua and heritage agencies in the assessment of values of archaeological sites and of the effects of subdivision, use or development on them.

12.Provide for the occupation, use, and adaptive re-use of significant historic heritage places, where this does not detract from the historic heritage values of the place.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for: historic heritage, natural resources - Land disturbance activities and subdivision.

•Zones objectives, policies and rules for: coastal, public open space, rural.

•Overlay objectives, policies and rules for historic heritage.

•Precincts - objectives, policies and rules for residential and city centre. 

•Historic Heritage Plan

•Parks and Open Spaces Strategic Action Plan

•Waterfront Plan

•City Centre Master Plan

•Conservation plans for Council-owned or controlled heritage.

•MOUs with government departments and agencies, 

•Agreements with council controlled organisations, 

•MOUs with Mana Whenua groups and other entities

•Koiwi (human remains) discovery protocol.

•Cultural Heritage Inventory (CHI) linked to the Council GIS

•GIS-based archaeological alert layers identifying areas where there is a high likelihood of unrecorded or unidentified sites being present

•Land and project information memoranda (LIMs and PIMs)

•Advice notes on resource consents

•Technical advice.

•Ongoing research to identify significant historic heritage places

•Methodology for evaluation of historic heritage significance

•Thematic research framework.

•Heritage incentives and assistance

•Heritage acquisition fund

•Auckland Heritage Survey: guidance for area assessments

•Guidelines for nominating a historic heritage place for evaluation

•Maintaining council-owned or controlled historic heritage places.

•considers a range of heritage values 

•recognises a historic heritage place can include more than one feature 

•takes account of the broad context of the historic heritage place rather than just individual features 

•recognises the site parameters of the historic heritage place should reflect the area, function, meaning and relationships of the place. 

•predominance or groups of buildings of a particular era or style

•a distinctive pattern of lot sizes, street and road patterns

•intensity of development

•the presence of mature vegetation

•the relationship of built form and natural landscapes

•the use of traditional materials and design elements

•streetscape cohesiveness.

•identification of areas with special character values

•protection of the overall special character of the area from significant change such as inappropriate demolition, modification and development

•supporting appropriate ongoing use and adaptive reuse to enable effective functioning and vitality of the areas

•a precautionary approach to areas that may have special character value but have not yet been evaluated.

1. Special character areas are identified in neighbourhoods and business centres in Auckland.

2. The character of identified special character areas is retained and enhanced.

3. A precautionary approach is taken to the management of areas with a concentration of pre-1944 buildings until they have been evaluated for historic heritage,or special character significance.

1. Identify special character areas to retain and enhance places that reflect settlement, development and/or landscape quality over time.

2. Identify special character areas using the following criteria:

a. physical and visual qualities: groups of buildings or the area collectively reflects an important or representative aspect of architecture, design and/or landscape or streetscape, or is distinctive for its aesthetic quality.

b. Legacy; the area collectively reflects an important or representative a significant period of settlement within the region or locality

c. Social; the area collectively has symbolic, spiritual, commemorative, traditional or other cultural value or reflects the identity of a particular community.

3. Ensure identified special character areas are retained and enhanced by:

a. requiring new buildings, additions and modifications to existing buildings to maintain and enhance the special character of the area

b. avoiding the demolition and destruction of buildings and features that define, add to or support the special character of the area

c. retaining and enhancing the relationship between the built form, streetscape, vegetation, landscape and open space that define, add to or support the character of the area

d. mitigating the cumulative effect of the loss or degradation of special character values.

4. Take a precautionary approach to any proposal to demolish a pre-1944 building, in areas identified as having a concentration of pre-1944 building stock but not identified as significant historical heritage place or a special character area, where:

a. the area may have unidentified historic heritage or special character values

b. the demolition may result in a reduction of the areas architectural or streetscape values.

•Regional Policy Statement objectives, policies for special character areas

•Overlay objectives, policies and rules for Special character areas and Pre-1944 Demolition Control

•Special character area statements.

•Parks and Open Spaces Strategic Action Plan

•Waterfront Plan

•City Centre Master Plan

•Conservation plans for council-owned or controlled special character.

•MOUs with government departments and agencies, council controlled organisations, mana whenua groups and other entities.

•Auckland Heritage Survey: guidance for area assessments

•Advice notes on resource consents

•Technical advice

•Land and project information memoranda (LIMs and PIMs).

•Methodology for evaluation of special character places

•Thematic research framework

•Heritage evaluation

•Surveys (Auckland Heritage Survey).

•Special character areas incentives and assistance

•Maintaining council-owned or controlled special character areas

•Guidelines for nominating a special character place for evaluation.

•natural character of the coastal environment – unmodified areas of the coastal environment categorised as areas of Outstanding Natural Character (ONC) or areas of High Natural Character (HNC) 

•natural landscapes – landscapes located throughout the rural and coastal areas and categorised as either Outstanding Natural Landscapes (ONL) 

•natural features–geological sites and landforms, including maunga/volcanic cones, categorised as Outstanding Natural Features (ONF). These features have significant geological and geo-morphological values, as well as a range of other values including, in some instances, ONL values 

•trees – either individual or groups of trees that contribute to the cultural and natural heritage values of Auckland 

•biodiversity – areas of significant indigenous vegetation and significant habitats of indigenous fauna and are categorised as Significant Ecological Areas (SEA) for land and marine 

•the Waitākere Ranges Heritage Area – is a distinct and integral part of Auckland’s identity. It is nationally significant and requires active stewardship to protect it in the future. 

•Regional Policy Statement objectives and policies

•Auckland-wide vegetation management objectives, policies and rules

•Mapping of outstanding and high natural character areas in the coastal environment 

•Overlays for mapped areas – objectives, policies and rules applying to zones on land and in the CMA.

•Funding and assistance for restoration and rehabilitation of natural character values

•Education and advocacy for land use management practices that maintain and enhance natural character value.

•ONF overlay rules

•ONL overlay rules

•Volcanic Viewshaft and Blanket Height Sensitive areas overlays, objectives, policies and rules

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules

•Coastal Marine zone objectives, policies and rules.

•Open Space Strategy

•Marine spatial planning

•Resource consent guidelines.

•Guidance and advice

•MoU with DOC.

•State of the Environment Reporting.

•changes in primary production i.e. moving from pastoral farming to horticulture or viticulture

•more intensive use of rural areas for a range of non-production activities, particularly countryside living

•transformation from rural to urban uses at the urban edge

•re-development and intensification in urban areas. 

•providing criteria to identify areas with these values, and identifying these areas in the plan to provide certainty to landowners and others. Areas identified are: ONFs, ONLs, Regionally Significant Viewshafts and Blanket Height Sensitive Areas.

•requiring that activities which affect the values for which the feature or area is identified are avoided, including through controls on size, height and location of buildings within the Regionally Significant Viewshafts and the Blanket Height Sensitive Areas. 

•requiring that appropriate accidental discovery protocols are followed for previously unidentified natural features

•promoting the maintenance and enhancement of the multiple values of the maunga

•encouraging restoration of landscape values and natural features where appropriate.

1. Auckland’s sense of place and identity is maintained and enhanced through the recognition and protection of the contribution of trees and vegetation to our cultural and natural heritage.

2. The contribution of trees and vegetation to the maintenance of indigenous biodiversity, and the provision of ecosystem services including soil conservation, water quality, stormwater control and the mitigation of natural hazards is recognised and enhanced.

3. The retention of trees and groups of trees in urban areas which contribute to neighbourhood amenity and character are promoted.

1. Notable trees and groups of trees are identified for scheduling using the following criteria. For a tree to be listed as notable it must meet at least one stand alone criteria or must meet a minimum cumulative score based on all the tree-specific criteria:

a. Standalone criteria:

i. heritage or historical association. The trees are associated with or commemorate a historic event, have a historic association with a well-known historic or notable figure, have a strong public association, or are strongly associated with a local historic feature and now form a significant part of that feature

ii. scientific importance and rarity. The trees are the largest or only example of a species in Auckland, a significant example of a species rare in the Auckland region, a native species that is nationally or regionally threatened, or have outstanding value because of their scientific significance

iii. ecosystem service or environmental function. The trees provide a critical habitat for a threatened species population

iv. cultural association and accessibility. The trees demonstrate a custom, way of life or process once common but now rare or in danger of being lost or have been lost; have an important role in defining the community identity and distinctiveness of the community though having special symbolic, spiritual, commemorative, traditional or other cultural value; or represent important aspects of collective memory, identity or remembrance, the meanings of which should not be forgotten.

v. intrinsic. The trees are intrinsically notable because of a combination of factors including size, age, vigour and vitality, stature and form or visual contribution.

b. Tree-specific criteria:

i. age and health. The trees are notable because of age, and their vigour and vitality

ii. stature, character or form. The tree or group of trees is notable for being an exceptional example of the species in terms of its structure, character and form

iii. size: The trees are notable because of the exceptional size for the species in this location

iv. visual contribution. The trees make a significant contribution to the visual character of an area or to the vista from elsewhere in Auckland.

c. Potential negative effects:

i. human health and/or property. The tree has adverse effects on human health and/or property and the degree to which these can be managed through arboricultural or property management means

ii. biosecurity. The tree species is listed in the Regional Pest Management Strategy as a total control or containment plant or listed under the Biosecurity Act 1993 as an unwanted organism.

2. Promote the values that trees provide in urban areas and neighbourhoods.

3. Identify and protect areas where vegetation contributes significantly to the maintenance of indigenous biodiversity and to ecosystem services including soil conservation, water quality and quantity management and the avoidance and mitigation of natural hazards.

4.Promote the appropriate planting and maintenance of trees on public and private land.

5. Recognise the benefit public trees provide within streets and public open space while acknowledging the multiple uses of these spaces.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for Vegetation management, Trees in streets and public open space, Coastal Environment, Freshwater

•Overlays objectives, policies and rules for the: Notable tree overlay, Significant Ecological Areas, Outstanding Natural Landscapes, Outstanding and High Natural Character Areas, Outstanding Natural Features

•Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Act

•Covenants (including QE II and Nga Whenua Rahui)

•Consent Conditions

•Including education on the benefits of urban trees

•Design guidelines for the retention of trees and vegetation in developments.

•Waiving of resource consent application fees for Notable Trees

•Enhancement funding for restoration programmes/planting

•Funding for tree retention programmes.

•Regional Pest Management Plan.

•SEA Overlay rules

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules

•Coastal Marine Zone objectives, policies and rules.

•Dogs on Beaches

•Other animals.

•The Regional Pest Management Plan.

•Indigenous Biodiversity Strategy

•Open Space Strategy

•Marine spatial planning

•Weed Management Policy

•Resource consent guidelines

•Urban Design Manual.

•Coordination of voluntary efforts

•Planting and other guidance

•MoU with DOC

•Internet resources for community groups such as ‘Nature Space’.

•Rates relief

•Grants

•Provision of weed and pest management equipment.

•Terrestrial Biodiversity Monitoring Programme

•State of the Environment Reporting.

•providing objective, complementary and evidence based criteria to identify areas of significant indigenous biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal environments

•identifying areas of ecological significance so as to provide greater certainty to people managing and using areas with these values

•promoting restoration efforts to improve the quality, functioning and extent of indigenous biodiversity, and to remedy, mitigate and offset adverse effects of activities

•promoting the identification and enhancement of ecosystem services afforded by indigenous biodiversity

•providing for Mana Whenua’s role as kaitiaki, and as owners of land with a high proportion of significant indigenous biodiversity

•proscribing a management approach which avoids adverse effects on significant biodiversity, and requires that, where adverse effects arise, they are remedied, mitigated and offset, so as to ensure activities do not significantly degrade indigenous biodiversity

•providing for reasonable use by landowners and the continuation of existing lawful activities

•providing for the management of mangroves in a way that supports biodiversity values as well as the legitimate expectations of access to, and use of, the coastal marine area

•recognising the vulnerability and importance of coastal indigenous biodiversity, (including threatened marine mammals) and the particular pressure the coastal environment is under from use and development

•directing that activities are undertaken so as to ameliorate the threat of pest, and providing for the establishment and implementation of effective pest management programmes

•recognising the particular threat to Auckland’s biodiversity from kauri dieback disease

•recognising that there are some uncertainties in the management of indigenous biodiversity for which a precautionary response is appropriate.

1. The natural and historic resources, including the significant environmental values and heritage features of the Waitākere Ranges are protected, restored and enhanced for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the community.

2. Those aspects that are of significance to Mana Whenua, are protected and maintained including:

a. the spiritual dimension and the mauri of natural and physical resources and of people

b. the kaitiaki of these resources and significant sites and wāhi tapu

c. providing for those institutions that are integral to the relationship of Mana Whenua with their environment in a way that promotes the expression and practice of kaitiakitanga.

3. Development in settlements recognises and is sympathetic to the qualities, character and natural features of the ranges and the complex mixed landscapes of the foothills.

4. Cumulative effects of activities on the environment, including its amenity values or its heritage features, are recognised and avoided.

5. The character, scale and intensity of subdivision, use or development does not adversely affect the heritage features or contribute to urban growth outside the RUB.

6. The quality and diversity of landscapes are maintained by:

a. protecting landscapes of local, regional, or national significance

b. restoring and enhancing degraded landscapes

c. managing change within a landscape in an integrated way, including retaining a rural character.

7. Residents can provide for their social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being.

8. The water supply catchments and their related supply functions are protected.

9. The natural and historic resources of the Waitākere Ranges Regional Park are protected in perpetuity for their intrinsic worth and for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the people and communities of Auckland and New Zealand.

1. Design and locate structures and impermeable surfaces, and undertake activities in a way that does not impede or adversely affect the potential for the regeneration of native vegetation, or reduce the extent, range and linkage between areas of native vegetation.

2. Prevent activities from releasing plants or pests likely to harm to plants and animals and their habitats.

3. Where clearing for infrastructure is necessary, it should be undertaken only where the vegetation is of lower value and there is no alternative option.

4. Manage activities to minimise their adverse effects on water quality, soil, native vegetation and fauna habitats, mauri of the waterway, taiāpure or mahinga mātaitai.

5. Require the type and density of settlements to avoid degrading the wilderness character of natural landscape features.

6. Avoid non-residential activities:

a. unrelated to the productive use of rural land

b. that require substantial earthworks or vegetation removal

c. that are industrial and unrelated to rural activities.

7. Enable the expansion of appropriate existing commercial activities.

8. Adopt a precautionary approach when considering proposals that threaten serious or irreversible damage to a heritage feature.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for vegetation management

•Objectives, policies and rules for the Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area precinct.

•Monitoring and information gathering 

•Monitor and report on matters relating to the Heritage Area

•Advocacy and education.

•terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of prominent indigenous character

•the different classes of natural landforms and landscapes within the area

•the coastal areas

•naturally functioning streams

•quietness and darkness of the Waitakere Ranges

•opportunities that the area provides for wilderness experiences, recreation, and relaxation

•the historical, traditional, and cultural relationships of people, communities, and Mana Whenua with the area

•evidence of past human activities in the area, including those in relation to timber extraction, gum-digging, flax milling, mineral extraction, quarrying, extensive farming, and water impoundment and supply

•its distinctive local communities

•Waitakere Ranges Regional Park

•public water catchment and supply system, the operation, maintenance, and development of which serves the people of Auckland.

1. The principles of the Treaty are recognised and provided for in the sustainable management of ancestral lands, water, air, coastal sites, wāhi tapu and other taonga, and natural and physical resources. The Treaty is articulated in law through an evolving set of principles. These include:

a. reciprocity

b. rangatiratanga

c. partnership

d. shared decision-making

e. active protection

f. mutual benefit

g. right of development

h. redress.

2. Mana Whenua can exercise Tino Rangatiratanga through participation in resource management processes and decisions.

3. The relationship of Mana Whenua with Treaty settlement land is provided for, recognising:

a. Treaty settlements provide redress for the grievances arising from the breaches of the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi by the Crown

b. the historical circumstances associated with the loss of land by Mana Whenua and resulting inability to provide for Mana Whenua well-being

c. the importance of cultural redress lands and interests to Mana Whenua identity, integrity, and rangatiratanga

d. the limited extent of commercial redress land available to provide for the economic well-being of Mana Whenua.

4. The development and use of Treaty settlement land is enabled in ways that give effect to the outcomes of Treaty settlements recognising that:

a. cultural redress is intended to meet the cultural interests of Mana Whenua

b. commercial redress is intended to contribute to the social and economic development of Mana Whenua.

1. Provide opportunities for Mana Whenua to actively participate in the sustainable management of ancestral lands, water, air, coastal sites, wāhi tapu and other taonga, and natural and physical resources in a way that:

a. recognises the role of Mana Whenua as kaitiaki and provides for the practical expression of kaitiakitanga

b. builds and maintains partnerships and relationships with iwi authorities

c. provides for timely, effective and meaningful engagement with Mana Whenua at appropriate stages in the resource management process including development of resource management policies and plans

d. recognises the role of kaumātua and pūkenga

e. recognises Mana Whenua as specialists in the tikanga of their hapū or iwi and as being best placed to convey their relationship with their ancestral lands, water, sites, wāhi tapu and taonga

f. acknowledges historical circumstances and impacts on resource needs

g. recognises and provides for mātauranga and tikanga

h. recognises the role and rights of whānau and hapū to speak and act on matters that affect them.

2. Involve Mana Whenua specialists in mātauranga and tikanga in resource management decisions where Mana Whenua values are affected.

3. Recognise and take into account partnership arrangements and agreements between Mana Whenua and the council when making resource management decisions.

4. Enable the transfer of powers and/or establishment of joint management agreements for certain functions relating to the development and management of ancestral lands, water, air, coastal sites, wāhi tapu and other taonga, and the sustainable management of natural and physical resources, where an iwi authority:

a. has an ancestral connection or mana over a resource

b. has a clear mandate to represent the interests of that iwi or hapū

c. can demonstrate the ability to fulfill the requirements of the RMA, whether directly or by outsourcing.

5. Recognise the following matters, where a proposal affects land or resources subject toTreaty settlement legislation, and provide for in resource management processes:

a. the historical association of the claimant group with the area, and any historical, cultural or spiritual values associated with the site or area

b. any relevant memorandum of understanding between the council and the claimant group

c. any joint management and co-governance arrangements established under Treaty settlement legislation

d. any other specific requirements of Treaty settlement legislation.

6. Take into account, where Mana Whenua propose an activity on Treaty settlement land, the benefits for the wider community and environment provided by any property specific protection mechanism, such as a covenant, when considering the effects of the proposal.

7. Engage with Mana Whenua on a case-by-case basis to discuss options for the future use and development of Treaty settlement land, including:

a. during negotiation, providing information to the Office of Treaty Settlements and Mana Whenua to support the negotiation process

b. following the signing of a Deed of Settlement, assessing whether existing zoning meets iwi aspirations

c. after the relevant Claims Settlement legislation has passed, working with iwi to develop site specific plan changes to fulfil iwi aspirations and meet the objectives and policies of the Unitary Plan.

8. Enable the development of land acquired as commercial redress for social and economic development.

9. Enable Mana Whenua to access and use cultural redress lands and interests for cultural activities.

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules for Treaty Settlement land 

•Zone objectives, policies and rules for the Maori Purpose Zone

•Auckland wide rules for cultural impact assessments in the General Provisions.

•Memoranda of understanding between the council and Mana Whenua

•Co-management framework

•Land subject to Treaty Settlement legislation  identified in the council's GIS database

•Treaty Settlement legislation statutory acknowledgements (non-statutory) in Appendix 4.3.

•Governance meetings between iwi authorities and Auckland Council elected members, to discuss issues of importance

•Toolkits guiding the preparation of a cultural impact assessment

•Toolkits guiding early, effective and meaningful engagement with Mana Whenua

•Toolkits to assisting the understanding Mana Whenua values

•Preparation of expert advice training for Mana Whenua 

•Toolkits guiding the implementation of mātauranga Māori

•Encourage and promote new technologies that implement mātauranga Māori

•Toolkits to assist with the development of Treaty Settlement land.

•Partnerships with Mana Whenua to develop and update performance measures and state of the environment reporting based on mātauranga Māori 

•Monitoring of consented planning applications by Mana Whenua kaitiaki.

•Making information on Mana Whenua values available using the council’s GIS.

•Advice, information and funding for Mana Whenua when resource management information and advice is sought by the council

•Assistance for regional Mana Whenua Kaitiaki forums and integrated resource management groups.

1. Mana Whenua values, mātauranga and tikanga are properly reflected and accorded sufficient weight in resource management decision-making.

2. The mauri and the relationship of Mana Whenua with freshwater, geothermal, land, air and coastal resources is enhanced.

3. Mana Whenua are involved and empowered in the management of natural resources.

4.The relationship of Mana Whenua and their customs and traditions with areas scheduled for natural heritage or historic heritage values is recognised and provided for.

1. Enable Mana Whenua to identify and articulate their values associated with:

a. ancestral lands, biodiversity, water, air, coastal sites, wāhi tapu and other taonga

b. freshwater, including rivers, streams, aquifers, lakes, wetlands and associated values

c. air, geothermal and coastal resources.

2. Integrate Mana Whenua values, mātauranga and tikanga:

a. in the management of natural and physical resources within the ancestral rohe of Mana Whenua, including ancestral lands, biodiversity, waters, sites, wāhi tapu and other tāonga

b. in the management of freshwater and coastal resources, such as the use of rāhui to enhance ecosystem health

c. to find innovative solutions to remedy the long-term adverse effects on historical, cultural and spiritual values from discharges to freshwater and coastal water

d. in resource management processes and decisions relating to freshwater, geothermal, land, air and coastal resources.

3. Ensure that resource management decisions take into account relevant iwi and hapū resource management plans.

4. Promote the preparation of a cultural impact assessment for activities that may adversely affect the values of Mana Whenua.

5. Provide opportunities for Mana Whenua to be involved in the integrated management of natural and physical resources in ways that:

a. recognise the holistic nature of the Mana Whenua world view

b. Recognise any protected customary right in accordance with the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011

c. restore or enhance the mauri of freshwater and coastal ecosystems.

6. Establish:

a. minimum water quality standards for freshwater, including groundwater, and coastal water

b. maximum allocation limits for freshwater resources, including groundwater that incorporates Mana Whenua values in addition to the ecological values of the water resource.

7. Require resource management decisions to have particular regard to potential impacts on:

a. the exercise of kaitiakitanga

b. mauri, particularly in relation to freshwater and coastal resources

c. customary activities, including mahinga kai

d. places, sites and areas with significant spiritual or cultural heritage value to Mana Whenua.

8. Identify, define and set goals for ecosystem health from a Mana Whenua perspective using tools such as:

a. the Ministry for the Environment’s Māori environmental performance indictors

b. specific environmental or cultural indicators based on mātauranga and tikanga Māori.

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules for natural resources

•Objectives, policies and rules in Auckland-wide, Mana Whenua Management precinct.

•Solid Waste.

•Iwi planning documents.

•Development and updating of iwi planning documents

•Environmental Initiatives Fund Grants. 

1. Development supports the economic, social and cultural aspirations of Māori.

2. Mana Whenua occupies, develops and use their land within their ancestral rohe, particularly in areas identified as Māori cultural landscapes.

1. Provide for papakāinga, marae, customary use, cultural activities and commercial activities across urban and rural Auckland to support Māori economic, social, and cultural development.

2. Provide for the integration of mātauranga and tikanga in design and development.

3. Provide for the development of Māori cultural institutions, including institutions which provide economic opportunities through cultural education and tourism.

4. Enable the occupation, development and use of Māori land for the benefit of its owners, their whānau, and their hapū.

5. Enable Mana Whenua to occupy, develop and use Māori land within areas scheduled for natural heritage or historic heritage values in ways that recognise and provide for those values.

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules for Māori Land 

•Zone objectives, policies and rules for Special Purpose – Māori Purpose zone

•Precinct objectives, policies and rules in Māori Purpose Zone and other zones to provide for aspirations for specific sites

•Policies and rules to provide for the development of marae complex in Residential, Rural, Public Open Space, Future Urban, and Business zones. 

•Policies to provide for the development of papakāinga in Residential and Rural zones

•Rules to provide for customary use in Rural, Future Urban, and Public Open Space zones 

•Assessment criteria relating to Mana Whenua values in design.

•Open Space Strategy

•Open Space Acquisition Policy

•Property Disposal and Acquisition Policy

•Auckland Design Manual, including Te Aranga Design Principles and principles of Māori cultural landscapes.

•Toolkits to assist with the development of Māori land.

•establishing and extending papakāinga and marae and associated services

•developing commercial activities, sports and recreation facilities and community gardens

•cultural activities and iwi/hapū revitalisation activities such as historic heritage and environmental management. 

1. The tangible and intangible values of Mana Whenua cultural heritage are identified, protected and enhanced.

2. The relationship of Mana Whenua with their cultural heritage is provided for.

3. Mana Whenua cultural, spiritual and historical values associated with their cultural landscapes are recognised, protected and enhanced.

4. The knowledge base of Mana Whenua cultural heritage in Auckland continues to be developed, giving priority to areas where there is a higher level of threat to the loss or degradation of Mana Whenua cultural heritage.

5. Mana Whenua cultural heritage and related sensitive information and management approaches are respected.

1. The council will work with Mana Whenua to develop a methodology for identifying, researching and assessing unscheduled sites and places of significance to Mana Whenua that will be nominated for scheduling.

2. Schedule Mana Whenua cultural heritage where it can be demonstrated it is of significance to Mana Whenua.

3. Identify and protect the values of Mana Whenua cultural heritage using one or more of the following criteria to support scheduling:

a. Mauri

 Ko te mauri me te mana o te wāhi, te taonga rānei, e ngākaunuitia ana e te Mana Whenua

 The mauri (life force and life-supporting capacity) and mana (integrity) of the place or resource holds special significance to Mana Whenua.

b. Wāhi tapu

 Ko tērā wāhi, taonga rānei he wāhi tapu, arā, he tino whakahirahira ki ngā tikanga, ki ngā puri mahara, o ngā wairua a te Mana Whenua

 The place or resource is a wāhi tapu of special, cultural, historic, metaphysical and or spiritual importance to Mana Whenua.

c. Kōrero Tūturu/historical

 Ko tērā wāhi e ngākaunuitia ana e te Mana Whenua ki roto i ōna kōrero tūturu

 The place has special historical and cultural significance to Mana Whenua.

d. Rawa Tūturu/customary resources

 He wāhi tērā e kawea ai ngā rawa tūturu a te Mana Whenua

 The place provides important customary resources for Mana Whenua.

e. Hiahiatanga Tūturu/customary needs

 He wāhi tērā e eke ai ngā hiahia hinengaro tūturu a te Mana Whenua

 The place or resource is a venue or repository for Mana Whenua cultural and spiritual values.

f. Whakaaronui o te Wa/contemporary esteem

 He wāhi rongonui tērā ki ngā Mana Whenua, arā, he whakaahuru, he whakawaihanga, me te tuku mātauranga

 The place has special amenity, architectural or educational significance to Mana Whenua.

4. Protect the values and associations of Mana Whenua with their sites and places of significance or value, which are identified in the Unitary Plan, where subdivision, use and development may result in the loss or degradation of those values and associations by avoiding:

a. the destruction in whole or in part of the site or place and its extent

b. adverse cumulative effects on the site or place

c. adverse effects on the location and context of the site or place

d. the lack of assessment of and provision for mātauranga and tikanga Māori when making decisions

e. significant adverse effects on the values and associations Mana Whenua have with the site or place.

5. Recognise, enhance and protect Mana Whenua values associated with their cultural landscapes by developing an agreed methodology to:

a. identify and record, assess and map the values within a spatial context in accordance with tikanga and mātauranga Māori

 b. determine the most appropriate mechanisms to recognise, enhance and protect Mana Whenua values and associations

c. prioritise areas where there is a higher level of threat to the loss or degradation of Mana Whenua cultural heritage such as the coastal and freshwater environments, and areas subject to structure planning.

6. Provide opportunities to reflect the context provided by Māori cultural landscapes in public open space.

7.Manage the impact on unidentified sites and places of significance to Mana Whenua that are uncovered during subdivision, use and development by:

a. requiring a protocol for the accidental discovery of kōiwi, archaeology and artefacts of Māori origin

b. undertaking appropriate actions in accordance with mātauranga and tikanga Māori

c. undertaking appropriate measures to avoid adverse effects.

8. Recognise that Mana Whenua are specialists in determining their values and associations with their cultural heritage.

9. Recognise that Mana Whenua cultural heritage may be significant to whānau, hapū or iwi.

10.Enable Mana Whenua to practice their customs and traditions in relation to their cultural heritage by having regard to cultural impact assessments undertaken during a resource consent and during the exercise of accidental discovery protocols.

11.Require a cultural impact assessment where subdivision, use or development may affect Mana Whenua cultural heritage.

12.Adopt a precautionary approach where structure planning is required by undertaking a Maori cultural landscape assessment, with Mana Whenua to:

a.identify Mana Whenua values associated with the landscape

b.identify sites and places that are suitable to schedule for their Mana Whenua culatural heritage values as part of a future plan change

c.reflect Mana Whenua values.

13.Encourage best practice in the provision of infrastructure in areas near the coast and around natural waterways and bush environments because of the known historic settlement and occupation patterns of the tupuna of Mana Whenua.

14. Recognise that some information surrounding the values and associations of Mana Whenua to their cultural heritage may be sensitive and put a site or place at risk of destruction or degradation, meaning it may not be appropriate to make it public.

15. Develop, together with Mana Whenua the knowledge base and methods, systems and protocols for recording, managing and protecting information relating to Mana Whenua cultural heritage.

16. Recognise that information may be held in various forms and may be in Te Reo Māori in accordance with the tikanga of the iwi or hapū.

•Overlay objectives, policies and rules for sites and places of significance to Mana Whenua and for sites and places of value to Mana Whenua.

•General Provisions for Mana Whenua Cultural Heritage: Accidental Discovery Protocols and Information Requirements.

•Mana Whenua cultural heritage plan change

•Memoranda of understanding between the council, Mana Whenua and heritage protection agencies on processes for identifying and protecting Mana Whenua cultural heritage.

•Information Management Protocols

•Road Naming Guidelines.

•Identifying archaeological sites of Māori origin.

•Development and continual update of methods for the identification and protection of Mana Whenua cultural heritage and the values associated with cultural landscapes 

•Partnerships with Mana Whenua to identify and protect Mana Whenua cultural heritage, including through a future plan change 

•Ongoing work to identify and map the Mana Whenua values associated with cultural landscapes using GIS tools.

•Funding for further investigation and scheduling of Mana Whenua cultural heritage, including funding of specialist input from Mana Whenua

•Funding for a plan change to schedule additional Mana Whenua cultural heritage 

•Heritage acquisition fund.

1. Air discharges and the use and development of land are managed to improve air quality, enhance amenity values and reduce reverse sensitivity in Auckland’s urban areas and to maintain air quality at existing levels in rural and coastal marine areas.

2. The Auckland Ambient Air Quality Standards and National Environmental Standards are met, and in particular priority is given to meeting the annual average standards for fine particles (PM₁₀ and PM_2.5) and hourly and 24-hourly standards for nitrogen dioxide.

3. The directives of the National Environmental Standard for Air Quality to reduce PM₁₀ contaminant levels are implemented through Unitary Plan provisions and other relevant techniques available to the council.

4. Adverse effects of air discharges on human health, property and the environment are avoided, remedied or mitigated including those from:

a. domestic solid fuel burning

b. outdoor burning

c. industrial and trade premises

d. application of chemicals

e. motor vehicles.

1. Manage discharges to air and the use and development of land to:

a. avoid significant adverse human health effects and reduce exposure to adverse air discharges

b. regulate activities that use or discharge noxious or dangerous substances

c. minimise reverse sensitivity conflicts by avoiding or mitigating land use conflict between air discharges and activities that are sensitive to air discharges

d. enable the operation and development of light and heavy industrial activities and rural production activities, that have air discharges

e. protect activities that are sensitive to the adverse effects of air discharges

f. reduce the adverse effects of emissions from domestic fires and motor vehicles

g. minimise actual and potential risk to people and property

h. protect flora and fauna from the adverse effects of air contaminants.

2. Meet AAAQS by giving priority to:

a. reducing PM₁₀ and PM_2.5 particulate discharges from combustion sources such as domestic fires, motor vehicle emissions and industrial discharges to air

b. establishing caps for the total discharge of fine particles (PM₁₀ and PM_2.5) and nitrogen dioxide from sources that require air discharge consents

c. providing for new major discharges, or increases in existing discharges of fine particles (PM₁₀ and PM_2.5) where:

i. the activity will not exceed the cap established under (b) above

ii. the emissions are offset.

d. advocating for the reduction of discharges of nitrogen oxides in motor vehicles emissions

e. advocating for reductions in sulphur dioxide emissions from marine sources.

3. Recognise the significance of air pollutant discharges from domestic fires as the major source of poor air quality in urban Auckland and reduce discharges of fine particles (PM₁₀ and PM_2.5) to meet Auckland Ambient Air Quality Standards and National Environmental Standards by:

a. phasing out domestic open fires un urban Auckland areas

b. requiring new solid fuel-burning domestic fires to meet appropriate emissions standards

c. promoting effective and efficient low emission home heating sources

d. encouraging housing design which minimises the need for home heating

e. encouraging the use of clean burning fuel and the effective operation of existing solid fuel domestic fires, while supporting their progressive replacement by more efficient and lower emission heating options.

4. Reduce the impacts of air contaminant discharges from motor vehicles on human health and the environment by:

a. promoting patterns of land use that minimise the need to travel by motor vehicle

b. promoting urban design that minimises the adverse effects of air discharges from motor vehicles

c. supporting the development of passenger transport, ride sharing, cycling, walking, working from home and other measures to reduce the need to use motor vehicles to move people and goods around Auckland

d. avoiding and mitigating the adverse effects on human health associated with high traffic generating activities and major new transport projects

e. encouraging heavy-duty diesel vehicles to use routes that are part of the strategic freight network and to avoid routes that are not part of this network

f. encouraging public transport to meet appropriate emission standards including the preferred use of electric and low emission vehicles

g. supporting the use of low emission motor vehicles (both light and heavy duty).

5. Manage the discharge of contaminants to air from the use and development of land and the coastal marine area in a manner that provides for different levels of amenity according to the purpose of the zone and the predominant types of activities within any given area, and in particular:

a. allow for reduced air quality amenity in industrial areas

b. maintain a high level of air quality amenity, including good visibility in other urban areas and in the coastal marine area

c. provide for minor and localised degradation of amenity, including visibility in rural areas, only where the air discharge is from a rural activity.

•Auckland-wide objectives, polices and rules for air quality.

•Overlay objectives, policies and rules for industry transition, sensitive activity restriction and transport corridor separation.

•Land use zoning that encourages the development of a compact city and enables greater walking and cycling, use of public transport and a reduced reliance on private motor vehicles.

•Raising awareness of air quality issues

•Education about low emission home heating, insulation and waste management.

•Education encouraging reduced reliance on the private motor vehicle.

•aggregates, such as stone, rock, sand and gravel, for industry, construction and infrastructure

•limestone deposits for manufacturing fertilisers, roading basecourse and cement

•silica sand, shells and shingle for construction materials, glass production and beach replenishment purposes

•iron sand for production of steel

•clay for brick, ceramics and pottery products.

1. Auckland's mineral needs are met largely from within Auckland.

1. Zone regionally significant quarries and provide for mineral extraction activities within rural areas to ensure a secure supply of extracted minerals for Auckland's continuing development.

2. Encourage the use of recycled mineral material, construction waste and demolition waste to supplement supply.

3. Undertake new mineral extraction activities, where possible, outside:

a. ONCs, ONLs or SEAs

b. ONFs or scheduled sites and places of significance to Mana Whenua.

4. Where there are no practicable alternatives to locating outside the areas in Policy 3, the council will consider:

a. the benefits derived from mineral extraction, particularly its contribution towards meeting greater regional demand and improved self-sufficiency

b. the reduced transport effects and costs from having a mineral extraction site closer to the area of demand

c. the scale of significant physical and visual adverse effects on ONCs, ONLs or SEAs and the extent to which these can be remedied or mitigated

d. the extent to which residual adverse effects on the SEAs can be mitigated or offset to achieve, where practicable, no net loss of biodiversity.

5. Identify mineral deposits for future use and safeguard the regionally significant ones from inappropriate land use and development.

6. Mineral extraction activities shall be established and operated in ways which mitigate significant adverse effects on the environment by:

a. considering design and layout of the site, access roads and supporting facilities

b. preparing management, mitigation, biodiversity offsetting and/or rehabilitation plan(s) to address a full range of adverse effects

c. undertaking remedial measures during mineral extraction

d. considering site rehabilitation and use after mineral extraction ceases.

7. Subdivision, use and development adjacent to regionally significant mineral resources and adjoining transport routes shall avoid the establishment of sensitive activities which may compromise existing and future mineral extraction.

•Zone objectives, policies and rules for: Special Purpose and Quarry. 

•Overlays objectives, policies and rules for: Quarry Buffer Area.

•Designations e.g. Whitford Quarry.

•Quarry management plans.

1. The natural, social, economic and cultural values of freshwater and geothermal water resources are safeguarded when land, freshwater and geothermal water is used and developed.

2. The quality of freshwater and the natural and cultural values of freshwater systems are maintained and restored and enhanced where they have been degraded below levels necessary to safeguard life supporting capacity and meet community values.

3. Freshwater and geothermal resources are managed and allocated to support their natural and cultural values and to make efficient use of available water for economic, social and cultural purposes.

4. The amount of freshwater used by Auckland is progressively reduced on a per head basis.

5. The adverse effects of stormwater runoff and wastewater discharges on communities, freshwater systems and coastal waters are minimised and existing adverse effects are progressively reduced.

6. Mana Whenua values, mātauranga and tikanga associated with freshwater resources are recognised.

7. Mana Whenua actively participate in freshwater management processes and decision-making.

1. Integrate the management of use and development and freshwater systems by:

a. ensuring water supply, stormwater and wastewater collection and treatment infrastructure is adequately provided for in areas of new growth or intensification

b. requiring greenfield and brownfield development to be supported by comprehensive and integrated land use and water management planning processes, and adopt sensitive design and green infrastructure as a core development approach

c. controlling the use of land to minimise the adverse effects of stormwater runoff on freshwater systems and coastal waters, and reduce existing adverse effects where those systems or waters are degraded

d. avoiding development where it will increase existing adverse effects, unless these adverse effects can be adequately mitigated.

2. Manage land use, development and subdivision to:

a. avoid the permanent loss of lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands and their margins, particularly through the piping and infilling of streams and their headwaters

b. minimise the erosion and modification of stream beds and banks

c. protect and enhance the supporting elements and natural, social and cultural values of remaining rivers and streams including their headwaters, riparian margins and vegetation, flood plains and wetland areas

d. retain and enhance the connectivity between land, freshwater systems and the coast

e. avoid the permanent diversion of rivers and streams unless necessary for public health and safety or significant infrastructure only where other alternatives are not practicable

f. manage stormwater flows to minimise adverse effects on stream channels and the natural, social and cultural values of freshwater systems

g. maintain and enhance as far as practicable, navigation along rivers and public access to and along rivers

h. maintain and enhance existing riparian vegetation located on the margins of streams in natural stream management areas

i. use opportunities provided by land use change, development and redevelopment to restore and enhance natural, social and cultural freshwater values where practicable.

3. Manage use and development, discharges and other activities to avoid where practicable, and otherwise minimise and reduce:

a. adverse effects on the water quality and biodiversity values in identified natural lake, natural stream and wetland management areas and in SEAs

b. adverse effects on Mana Whenua values associated with freshwater resources, including wāhi tapu, wāhi taonga and mahinga kai

c. adverse effects on the quality of receiving water, including its ecology and mauri, where such water is subject to any new inter-catchment transfer or mixing of water

d. significant bacterial contamination of freshwater and coastal waters

e. the adverse effects of discharges on the quality of freshwater and coastal waters by:

i. reducing the potential for contaminants generated on or discharged to land at both point source and non-point sources to enter surface water and groundwater

ii. requiring management and treatment of discharges and contaminants

iii. managing land use activities that generate and discharge contaminants

iv. adopting the best practicable option for managing stormwater and wastewater network diversions and discharges.

4. Use opportunities provided by land use change, development and redevelopment to progressively improve the quality of freshwater and coastal waters.

5. Facilitate the identification, definition and goal setting for freshwater health from a Mana Whenua perspective using tools such as:

a. the Ministry for the Environment’s Māori environmental performance indicators.

b. specific environmental or cultural indicators based on mātauranga and tikanga Māori for example the Cultural Health Index

c. iwi planning documents.

6. Manage the quantity of water taken from freshwater systems by:

a. avoiding further over allocation of water

b. establishing limits beyond which water cannot be allocated

c. safeguarding spring flows, surface water body base flows, the recharge of adjacent aquifers, and geothermal temperature and amenity.

7. Promote the efficient taking of groundwater rather than the taking of water from rivers and streams in areas where groundwater is available for allocation.

8. Manage the allocation of geothermal water, heat or energy by giving priority in the following order to taking or use:

a. in accordance with tikanga Maori for the communal benefit of Mana Whenua

b. existing lawfully established water uses

c. heating public pools

d. all other uses.

9. Minimise the loss of sediment from land use, development and manage sediment discharges into surface water bodies and coastal water by requiring land disturbing activities to be designed and undertaken to:

a. retain soil and sediment on land and not discharge it to surface water bodies and coastal water, as far as practicable

b. use industry best practices and standards appropriate to the nature and scale of the land disturbing activity and the sensitivity of the receiving environment to minimise sediment discharges

c. limit the amount of land being disturbed at any one time to minimise the risk to receiving environments particularly where the:

i. nature of the soil type or topography is likely to result in increased sediment loss; or

ii. resulting sediment laden discharge is likely to adversely affect sensitive areas.

10. Manage the adverse effects of use, development, and the discharge of contaminants from stormwater networks in urban areas on freshwater systems and coastal waters by:

a. using land use change and development opportunities to reduce the adverse effects of existing land use

b. controlling the extent of impervious surfaces to minimise adverse effects on rivers and streams, the capacity of the stormwater network, flood risk and overflows from the sewer network;

c. controlling stormwater volumes and runoff from use and development in areas that discharge to rivers and streams that are identified as being susceptible to the adverse effects of increased stormwater flows

d. minimising the generation and discharge of stormwater and contaminants to the stormwater network

e. adopting the best practicable option to manage discharges from public stormwater networks and enabling prioritised improvements to those networks and reduction in adverse effects on a catchment, network or receiving environment basis.

11. Manage the adverse effects of discharges from wastewater networks by:

a. ensuring that new development is supported by wastewater infrastructure of a capacity that is sufficient to cater for expected population growth within the area to be serviced

b. progressively reducing existing overflows, and associated adverse effects, with a priority for areas that are sensitive to the adverse effects of wastewater discharges by:

i. adopting the best practicable option for preventing and minimising the adverse effects of discharges from the separated and combined wastewater networks, including works programmes to reduce overflow frequencies and volumes

ii. ensuring operations and maintenance plans are in place for the effective operation of the wastewater network and to minimise dry weather overflow discharges

iii. ensuring response processes are in place to mitigate the adverse effects of overflows on public health and safety and the environment where they occur

iv. managing discharges from wastewater treatment plants to meet community and environmental objectives.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for lakes, rivers, streams and wetland management, water quality and integrated management, water quantity, allocation and use, stormwater management, onsite wastewater, wastewater network management, taking, using, damming and diversion of water and drilling

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules for agrichemicals and VTAs and rural production discharges

•Riparian yard controls which control earthworks and vegetation removal and contribute to maintaining water quality and in-stream habitats

•Overlay objectives, policies and rules for stormwater management area: flow, water allocation, freshwater management areas, water supply management area, wetland management area.

•Education about how water quality can be safeguarded by behaviour change at home and work.

•Pollution response team and hot-line

•Active management of council owned close landfills.

•Incentives for improved riparian management and planting

•Funding hazardous waste collection services.

1. The environment is protected from the adverse effects and risks associated with the storage, use, disposal and transport of hazardous substances, while recognising and providing for the social and economic benefits of these activities.

1. Manage the use and development of land for hazardous facilities to avoid unintended discharges or other unintended events resulting in adverse effects on human health and the environment.

2. Manage the use and development of land for hazardous facilities:

a. so that hazardous facilities are resilient to damage caused by natural hazards that could result in adverse effects, including risks to people, property, and the contamination of air, land, ground and surface waters

b. to minimise risks caused by a natural hazard event.

3. Manage the effects associated with use and development of land for hazardous facilities by:

a. not allowing sensitive activities to be established near hazardous facilities or areas identified for hazardous facilities if they are likely to be adversely affected by any hazardous facility or if they have the potential to constrain operation of the hazardous facility

b. not allowing new hazardous facilities to be located near sensitive activities unless adverse effects are avoided

c. providing areas for hazardous facilities within Auckland away from sensitive activities so that they may carry out their operations without unreasonable constraints.

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules for managing hazardous substances, biosolids and industrial and trade activities.

•Making available guidance to assist operators of hazardous facilities in achieving compliance with relevant requirements, such as brochures or web-based information

•Promotion of good practices by hazardous facilities operators, including best management practices and adoption of environmental or quality management systems

•Promotion of ‘Cleaner Production’ principles

•Identification and promotion of suitable industrial standards, guidelines and codes of practice

•Education of public on risk issues associated with hazardous substances and hazardous facilities

•Providing generic information on reverse sensitivity issues

•Making available information on examples of comparable cases and precedents for reverse sensitivity effects on hazardous facilities.

•Liaison with parties involved with hazardous substance management – such as adjoining territorial authorities, central government departments, the New Zealand Police and Fire Service and owner/operators of hazardous facilities - will allow for more effective risk management co-ordination

•Council facilitating a resolution process outside the consents process to manage reverse sensitivity effects on hazardous facilities.

•use of agrichemicals 

•storage and use of petroleum products 

•timber treatment 

•sheep-dipping. 

1. Human health and the quality of air, land and water resources in Auckland are protected by the identification, management and remediation of land containing elevated levels of contaminants.

1. Identify potential and confirmed land containing elevated levels of contaminants in Auckland based on the following priorities:

a. sites known to have supported contaminating land use activities in the past

b. sites with a significant potential risk to human health.

2. Land that has not been investigated but which has a likelihood of contamination due to the type or nature of prior land uses will be noted by the council as being potentially contaminated.

3. Remediate land containing elevated levels of contaminants where:

a. the level of contamination renders the site unsuitable for its existing or potential use

b. the contaminants are generating adverse effects on the environment

c. there is a high risk of contamination spreading beyond the site

d. development or subdivision of land is proposed.

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules for contaminated land, agrichemicals and vertebrate toxic agents, discharge of contaminants, industrial and trade activities, managing hazardous substances. 

•Pollution response team and hot-line

•Active management of council owned contaminated land

•Collection of information about contaminated land.

•Funding hazardous waste collection services.

1. The sustainable management of the natural and physical resources of Auckland with respect to the outdoor use of GMOs.

1. Adopt a precautionary approach, including adaptive responses, to the outdoor use of GMOs.

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules for GMOs. 

•Promoting farming and land management practices that do not require the use of GMOs.

•ensure GM operators are financially accountable for the full costs associated with the GMO activity including unintentional contamination, clean-up, monitoring and remediation

•adopt a precautionary approach to manage potential risks (economic, environmental, social and cultural) associated with the outdoor use of GMOs

•protect marketing advantages associated with a “GE free” status

•address cultural concerns of Mana Whenua.

•the size and nature of the hazard

•the likelihood of the hazard occurring

•the exposure and vulnerability of elements at risk (people, buildings, infrastructure etc).

1. Reduce risk to people, property and infrastructure from natural hazards while minimising any adverse effects on the environment.

2. Protect the natural functions of floodplains and overland flow paths from the adverse effects of development and infrastructure.

1. Identify areas potentially affected by natural hazards, giving priority to those at high risk of being affected.

2. Undertake hazard identification and risk assessments for subdivision, use and development using the best available and up-to-date hazard information.

3. Assess the risk of development locating in areas subject to natural hazards based on the:

a. type and severity of the event

b. the effects of other activities from development

c. vulnerability of the activity to adverse effects, including safety, resilience to damage and effects on the environment and human health

across a range of timeframes appropriate to the hazard, including a 100 year timeframe for flooding and coastal hazard

4. Adopt a precautionary approach to natural hazard management and risk assessment in circumstances when:

a. the effects of natural hazards are either unknown or may be significant, including the possibility of low frequency, high magnitude events

b. the level of information on the probability and/or consequences of the hazard is limited

c. considering the location and design of significant infrastructure and future urban areas.

5. Protect, as a priority, maintain and where appropriate enhance natural defence systems, such as retention of flood plains, sand dunes and vegetation and riparian margins in their natural state, as opposed to using hard engineering methods.

6. Avoid or mitigate the effect of activities, such as earthworks, changes to natural and man-made drainage systems and/or vegetation clearance so that the risk of natural hazards in the locality is not worsened.

7. Encourage activities that reduce, or do not increase, the risk posed by natural hazards, including:

a. protecting and restoring natural landforms and vegetation

b. managing retreat by relocation, removal or abandonment of structures

c. replacing or modifying existing development to reduce risk without using hard engineering structures

d. designing for re-locatable or recoverable structures

e. providing for low intensity activities that are less vulnerable to the effects of relevant hazards, including modifying their design and management.

8. Encourage existing development, on land subject to natural hazards, to reduce existing risk and ensure that it does not create new risk by:

a. using a range of measures such as the placement of buildings and structure

b. design

c. managing activities to increase their resilience to hazard events

d. change of use to a less vulnerable activity.

9. Minimise the risk to new significant infrastructure which functions as a lifeline utility by:

a. assessing the risk from a range of hazard events including low likelihood, high consequence events such as tsunami, earthquake and volcanic eruptions

b. utilising design, location and network diversification to minimise the adverse effects on that piece of infrastructure and to minimise the adverse effects on the community from the failure of that piece of infrastructure.

•Land use zoning and policies 

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules for natural hazards

•Coastal zone objectives, policies and rules

•Ensuring the safety of buildings through the Building Consent process.

•Preparation and implementation of a Natural Hazard Risk Management Action Plan for Auckland.

•Providing information about natural hazards in Auckland to the public.

•historic heritage (RPS - section 4.1)

•natural character (RPS – section 4.3.1)

•landscape and natural features (RPS – section 4.3.2) 

•biodiversity (RPS – section 4.3.4) 

•Mana Whenua values (RPS – sections 5.1 to 5.4)

1. Subdivision, use and development in the coastal environment is located in appropriate areas, taking into account the range of uses and values of the coastal environment.

2. The natural and physical resources of the coastal environment are used efficiently and activities that depend on the use of the natural and physical resources of the coastal environment are provided for in appropriate locations.

3. Conflict between activities is minimised, and rights to occupy parts of the CMA are limited to activities that have a functional need to be located below MHWS.

4. There is integrated management of activities on land and in the CMA, to ensure that the efficient operation of established activities that depend upon the use of the CMA, is not adversely affected by other land or CMA activities.

5. The risk of subdivision, use and development in the coastal environment being adversely affected by coastal hazards is minimised.

1. Determine the appropriateness of subdivision, use and development in the coastal environment having regard, in addition to the objectives and policies in this section, to the regional policy statement objectives and policies in the historic heritage, natural character, landscape and natural features, biodiversity and Mana Whenua sections.

2. Avoid sprawling or sporadic patterns of subdivision, use and development that will individually or cumulatively compromise the RUB or the rural or coastal settlement growth policy for the coastal environment by:

a. concentrating subdivision, use and development within areas already characterised by development and where natural character values are already compromised

b. avoiding degradation of areas with high water quality and ecological values

c. ensuring that subdivision, use or development involving land above and below the MHWS can provide for any associated facilities or infrastructure in an integrated manner.

3. Provide for subdivision, use and development for activities that have a functional need to use the natural and physical resources of the coastal environment in appropriate areas having regard to the matters in Policies 1 and 2 above.

4. Maintain the value of the coast as an open space area with free public access by limiting use, occupation and development in the CMA to activities that:

a. have a functional need to be located below MHWS

b. are for public benefit, including infrastructure that cannot be reasonably or practicably be located outside the CMA, including existing uses

c. enable the cultural or traditional use of the CMA by Mana Whenua.

5. Provide for activities that are necessary to allow for the on-going use and operation of infrastructure and existing activities in the CMA, including port activities, while avoiding significant adverse effects to the extent practicable, and avoiding, remedying or mitigating other adverse effects.

6. Require subdivision, use and development in the coastal environment to assess the effects of activities on both the land and the CMA, including the effects on existing uses and on the coastal receiving environment.

•RPS objectives and policies for providing for growth in coastal settlements

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules for natural hazards, mineral extraction in the CMA, subdivision

•Zone objectives, policies and rules for the General Coastal Marine, Marina, Mooring, Minor Port, Ferry Terminal, Defence and Rural Coastal zones

•Overlay objectives, policies and rules for Historic Heritage, Natural Heritage, Mana Whenua

•Precinct objectives, policies and rules for coastal precincts.

•Bylaws that control use and activities in the coastal environment, including navigation and safety, vehicles on beaches and temporary events in the CMA.

•Marine spatial planning; to identify conflicts, values and appropriate locations for activities

•Catchment management planning; to integrate land-use and coastal receiving environment planning.

•ensuring it is located in appropriate areas, taking into account the values identified and the strategic direction for managing subdivision, use and development in the coastal environment, in addition to the values of the coastal environment that need to be considered in other parts of the plan

•recognising that some forms of use and development rely on the use of the natural and physical resources of the coastal environment, for example renewable energy generation, and that this should be provided for in appropriate locations

•recognising that the CMA is a limited and highly valued public resource, and that use, development in the CMA should be for activities that have a functional need to be undertaken below MHWS and cannot be undertaken on land

•providing for activities associated with the on-going operation of infrastructure and existing activities in the CMA, including Auckland’s largest commercial port and airport recognising the social and economic benefit they provide, subject to managing the adverse effects

•requiring the impacts of land use activities on the CMA be taken into account, including impacts on water quality, and that the effects on established CMA activities like aquaculture, port activities, and recreational use 

•requiring that both the landward and seaward aspects of use and development be considered in an integrated manner, for example the parking and access on land that may be required as part of providing for an activity in the CMA.

1. Public access to and along the CMA is maintained and enhanced in a manner that is sensitive to the use and values of an area.

2. The open space, recreation and amenity values of the coastal environment are maintained or enhanced, including through the provision of public facilities in appropriate locations.

3. Public access is restricted where necessary to ensure health or safety, the efficient and safe operation of activities, or to protect the value of areas that are sensitive to disturbance.

1. Subdivision, use and development in the coastal environment must where practicable:

a. be designed and located to minimise impacts on public use and access of the CMA

b. be set back from the CMA to protect public open space values and access

c. take into account the likely impact of coastal processes and climate change, and be set back sufficiently to not compromise the ability of future generations’ to have access along the coast

d. maintain, or where possible, enhance public access to the CMA, including through the provision of esplanade reserves and strips.

2. Facilitate the provision of public access, particularly walking access, to and along the coast through:

a. acquiring esplanade reserves or strips on subdivision, and linking reserves, access strips and open space areas

b. investigating the option of using paper roads to provide access in appropriate locations

c. working with landowners to seek agreement for walking access to be allowed through private property to enable linkages between areas, or to provide access to areas or sites of historic or cultural significance

d. where appropriate providing boardwalks in the CMA to connect access between land-based walkways or open space areas.

3. Provide for a range of open space and recreational use of the coast by:

a. enabling a diverse range of recreational uses while managing uses to avoid conflicts and safety issues

b. identifying and providing areas for particular recreational use where this ensures the most efficient use of space, and supports the provision of land-based facilities for those uses

c. enabling the provision of facilities in appropriate locations to enhance public access and amenity values.

4. Manage the level and form of public access to retain the sense of remoteness and predominance of natural character in areas valued for their wilderness experience.

5. Public access to, and along, the CMA, particularly walking access, will only be restricted where it is necessary to:

a. protect public health and safety

b. provide for defence, port or airport purposes

c. protect identified significant historic heritage or natural heritage values

d. protect dunes, estuaries and other sensitive natural areas or habitats

e. protect scheduled sites and places of significance to Mana Whenua

f. have a level of security necessary to carry out an activity or function that has been established or provided for

g. provide for exclusive use of an area to carry out an activity granted an occupation consent under s. 12 of the RMA.

•Auckland-wide objectives and policies and rules for public open space, public access, and subdivision, including esplanade reserve provisions

•Zone objectives, policies and rules for the General Coastal Marine, Marina, Mooring, Minor Port, Ferry Terminal and Defence zones.

•Precinct objectives, policies and rules for the Rowing and Paddling precinct.

•Bylaws that control use and activities in the coastal environment, including navigation and safety, vehicles on beaches and temporary events in the CMA.

•Open space strategy

•Parks and reserve management plans

•Marine spatial planning

•subdivision, use and development can have a significant impact on public open space and access. It may enhance access through the provision of esplanade reserves and open space areas, or the design and form of development can limit or detract from open space value and public access

•The likely future impact of coastal erosion and sea level change needs to be taken into account in considering the appropriate width of reserves and set backs from the coastal edge, particularly for new greenfield development. There is otherwise a risk that coastal reserves will erode and access will be lost, or that foreshore protection works will be required, if they are to be retained in the long term

•the provision of facilities, including boardwalks, boat ramps and pontoons can considerably enhance public access and amenity values. Facilities should be enabled in locations where there is high recreational use and it would enhance public access and use of the coast

•as Auckland grows and there is greater intensification and less private open space it will be important to ensure that there continue to be areas that people can still ‘escape’ the city and experience wilderness values. These areas need to be managed to ensure changes to access, including car-parking, or changing nature of access (e.g low impact walking tracks to formed accessways or vehicle access) do not result in losing the wilderness experience these areas are valued for

•Restrictions on public access to or along the CMA may need to be limited where it is necessary to protect public health and safety or the values of areas sensitive to disturbance. Restrictions may also be necessary to enable the efficient operation of activities undertaken in the coastal environment, including port, airport and marine industry activities, including access restrictions necessary for customs, security and biosecurity requirements. Some activities in the CMA are granted rights of occupation under s. 12 of the RMA, for example aquaculture or moorings, which require public access to be restricted or limited in parts of the CMA. 

1. There is no further decline in the water quality and ecological integrity of degraded areas.

2. The ecosystem functioning and water quality of degraded areas is improved over time and can support a range of recreational, cultural and other activities.

3. The water quality of areas of special value to Mana Whenua is such that it provides for the traditional and cultural use and values of the CMA.

1. Require discharges from catchments that are affecting the water quality of degraded areas to be managed to avoid further degradation of water quality and loss of ecosystem function.

2. Prioritise catchment management and restoration initiatives by:

a. identifying the key contributors and sources that are adversely impacting on the water quality of degraded areas

b. determining the restoration objective(s) by considering the current and future use and value of an area

c. consulting with Mana Whenua to identify areas they have a particular interest in.

3. Promote the restoration of the water quality and ecosystem function of degraded areas through:

a. targeted catchment management programmes

b. managing discharges to meet identified outcomes, having regard to the matters in policy 2.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for lakes, rivers and wetlands, earthworks, on-site wastewater, other discharges of contaminants, rural production discharges, stormwater management, vegetation management, wastewater network management

•General Coastal Marine zone objectives, policies and rules for discharges and disturbance, including rules for stock access to CMA.

•Identification of the use and values of areas through marine spatial planning

•Catchment management programmes, including riparian planting and coast care

•Integration of the work on identifying values for freshwater.

•Working with groups such as the Hauraki Gulf Forum and Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group and the Manukau Forum to improve coastal water quality

•Working with Mana Whenua to identify areas of coastal waters they have a particular interest and in identifying ways to remedy of mitigate the adverse effects from degraded water quality. 

1. The management of the Gulf gives effect to s. 7 and 8 of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act 2000.

2. The life-supporting capacity and ecological values of the Gulf and its marine ecosystems are protected, and where appropriate, enhanced.

3. Use and development supports the social and economic well-being of the resident communities of Waiheke and Great Barrier islands, while maintaining, or where appropriate, enhancing the natural, historic and physical resources of the islands.

4. Additional marine protected areas are created to support linkages with restored or high-value ecological areas on the islands or in catchments of the Gulf, and to enhance the recovery of ecosystems and enhance tourism opportunities.

5. The historic resources of the Gulf, its islands, and catchments are protected, and where appropriate enhanced.

6. The significant open space, recreation and amenity values of the Gulf are maintained or enhanced.

7. Economic well-being is generated from the use of the Gulf's natural and physical resources without resulting in further degradation of environmental quality or adversely affecting the life-supporting capacity of marine ecosystems.

1.Encourage and support the restoration and enhancement of the Gulf’s ecosystems, its islands, and catchments.

2.Require the integrated management of use and development in the catchments, islands, and waters of the Gulf to ensure that the ecological values and life-supporting capacity of the Gulf are protected, and where appropriate enhanced.

3.Require applications for use and development to be assessed in terms of the cumulative effect on the values of the Gulf, rather than on a jurisdictional, area-specific, or case-by-case basis.

4.Avoid use and development that will compromise the natural character, landscape, conservation, and biodiversity values of the islands, particularly in areas identified as having significant values.

5.Promote the restoration and rehabilitation of natural character values of the islands of the Gulf.

6.Ensure that use and development of the CMA adjoining conservation islands, regional parks or Department of Conservation land, does not adversely affect their scientific, natural or recreational values.

7.Enhance opportunities for educational and recreational activities on the islands of the Gulf if they are consistent with protecting their natural, historic, and physical values.

8.Identify and protect areas or habitats, particularly those unique to the Gulf, that are:

a.significant to the ecological and biodiversity values of the Gulf

b.vulnerable to modification.

9.Work with agencies and stakeholders to establish an ecological bottom line, or agreed target, for managing the Gulf’s natural, historic and physical resources which will:

a.provide greater certainty in sustaining the Gulf’s ongoing life-supporting capacity and ecosystem services

b.assist in avoiding incremental and ongoing degradation

c.co-ordinate cross jurisdictional integrated management and effort to achieve agreed outcomes

d.better measure the success of protection and enhancement initiatives

e.assist in establishing a baseline for monitoring changes

f.enable better evaluation of the social and economic cost-benefits of management

g.provide an expanded green-blue network linking restored island and mainland sanctuaries with protected, regenerating marine areas where the ecological health and productivity of the marine area will be enhanced.

10.Work in partnership with Mana Whenua to protect and enhance culturally important environmental resources and values of the Gulf that are important to their traditional, cultural and spiritual relationship with the Gulf.

11.Incorporate mātauranga Māori with western knowledge in establishing management objectives for the Gulf.

12.Require management and decision-making to take into account the historical, cultural and spiritual relationship of Mana Whenua with the Gulf, and the ongoing capacity to sustain these relationships.

13.Identify and protect the natural, historic and physical resources that have important cultural and historic associations for people and communities in and around the Gulf.

14.Identify, maintain, and where appropriate enhance, areas of high recreational use within the Gulf by managing water quality, development and potentially conflicting uses so they do not compromise the particular values or qualities of these areas that add to their recreational value.

15.Encourage the strategic provision of infrastructure and facilities to enhance public access and recreational use and enjoyment of the Gulf.

16.Provide for commercial activities in the Gulf and its catchments while ensuring that the impacts of use, and any future expansion of use and development, do not result in further degradation or net loss of sensitive marine ecosystems.

17.Encourage the strategic provision of infrastructure and facilities that support economic opportunities for the resident communities of Waiheke and Great Barrier islands.

18.Promote economic development opportunities that complement the unique values of the islands and the Gulf.

19.Promote the national significance of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park by:

a.supporting the development of Auckland’s waterfront as the gateway to the Gulf

b.promoting the Gulf as a visitor destination.

•Regional Policy Statement – objectives and policies in: Protecting out historic heritage, historic character and natural heritage, Addressing issues of significance to Mana Whenua, Sustainably managing our natural resources, Sustainably managing our coastal environment

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for maori cultural heritage, natural resources and general 

•Zone objectives, policies and rules for activities for all the zones that lie within the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park and catchments in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Land Drainage Area

•Overlay and precincts objectives, policies and rules that apply to land or water within the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park and catchments in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Land Drainage Area.

•Open space strategy

•Economic development strategy - promoting tourism and economic development consistent with protecting the values of the gulf.

•Marine spatial planning

•Hauraki Gulf Forum

•Department of Conservation

•Cross-boundary and jurisdiction management.

•Hauraki Gulf Forum State of the Environment monitoring

•Council monitoring of environmental quality and research

•Monitoring and information from other agencies just a Ministry of Primary Industries (fisheries management), Department of Conservation and research agencies (Leigh Marine Laboratory and Auckland University research)

•Water quality and stormwater monitoring and information

•Consent monitoring and information.

•Funding of catchment management initiatives to improve water quality

•Investment in infrastructure and facilities that support the social and economic well-being and management objectives for the gulf.

•recognising the need to integrate the management of the natural, historic, and physical resources of the Hauraki Gulf, its islands, and catchments 

•promoting restoration efforts on islands and maintaining the values of conservation islands

•supporting protection of areas of significant ecological value, including linkages between land and sea

•promoting use and development that provides for social and economic opportunities while avoiding further degradation of the marine environment of the Gulf

•recognising the significance of the open space, recreation and heritage values of the Gulf

•working with Mana Whenua in managing the Gulf

•recognising the need for collaboration in achieving the outcome sought for the Gulf as management of the catchments, marine area and islands is split between different councils and agencies and controlled under different legislation.

1. Rural areas are a significant contributor to the wider economic productivity of Auckland.

2. Rural communities undertake rural production and other activities that support them while rural character is maintained.

3. Auckland’s rural areas outside the RUB, and rural and coastal towns and villages, are protected from inappropriate subdivision, urban use and development.

1. Encourage the economic development potential of rural areas by supporting a diversity of rural activities that are based on the productive potential of the land and on the economic, social and cultural expertise of rural residents.

2. Activities typically associated with rural areas should:

a. depend on the use of rural resource

b. require a rural location

c. predominantly serve residents in rural areas.

3. Manage activities in rural areas so that:

a. there is no increase in urban activities

b. activities are of a type, scale, location and density that maintain or enhance the rural character of the different land use types

c. there is no significant increase in traffic generation that would require the premature upgrading of the local road network

d. they do not result in a significant or premature demand to provide, upgrade or provide water and wastewater infrastructure

e. adverse cumulative effects on rural values and the objectives of the rural zones are avoided.

4. Manage reverse sensitivity conflicts by preventing sensitive activities (such as rural lifestyle living) from establishing in areas zoned rural production, mixed rural, and rural coastal.

5. Support management practices that contain adverse effects from rural production activities on the site.

6. Require new rural lifestyle living to adopt on-site methods to avoid reverse sensitivity impacts on existing rural production activities. Countryside Living zones, and sites in rural zone areas, should provide adequate separation between dwellings and rural production uses.

7. Maintain a range of site sizes in rural areas, particularly large lots, to ensure adequate choice for primary production activities, including large farm holdings.

8. Encourage improved land management practices in rural production areas to progressively reduce adverse environmental effects, particularly from sediment and contaminant discharges into freshwater bodies and the CMA.

9. Protect and manage the natural character of the coastal environment, wetlands, lakes, rivers and their margins, ONLs and indigenous biodiversity in rural areas, while avoiding increases in scattered rural lifestyle lots.

10. Enable the location and operation of significant infrastructure, including renewable electricity generation, in rural areas.

11. Avoid subdivision and development that would result in sensitive activities (such as rural lifestyle living) being introduced into areas containing significant mineral resources.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for activities affecting natural resources.

•Zones objectives, policies and rules for Rural Production, Mixed Rural, Rural Coastal, Rural Conservation and Countryside Living zones.

•Overlay objectives, policies and rules for natural heritage, natural resources and Mana Whenua.

•Precinct objectives, policies and rules for rural areas.

1. The subdivision, use and development of elite and prime land is managed to maintain its capability, flexibility and accessibility for primary production.

2. The productive potential of land of lower soil quality is recognised.

1. Avoid new rural lifestyle living subdivision, use and development on elite and prime land.

2. Encourage activities that do not depend on using elite and prime land to locate outside these areas.

3. Recognise the productive potential of lesser soil quality together with other conditions such as favourable microclimate, good drainage, water availability or established physical, economic or social infrastructure and encourage the continued use of this land for rural production.

4. Enable the continued operation of existing non-soil dependent horticultural enterprises on elite or prime land where there are economic and operational benefits associated with concentrating such industries in specific rural localities.

5. Encourage land management practices that retain the physical and chemical capability of high quality soils.

6. Support the allocation of water to areas of elite and prime land and to the areas of non soil dependent horticulture.

7. Provide the ability to amalgamate sites and transfer their development potential into other appropriate locations in rural areas (such as Countryside Living zones).

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for subdivision in rural areas

•Zones objectives, policies and rules for rural production, mixed rural, rural coastal, rural conservation and countryside living zones.

•Farm plans

•Studies of highly productive areas to increase their resilience to adverse climatic events, and other ways of maintaining their productivity without degrading natural environment such as water quality.

•Enhancement funding for restoration programmes/planting

•Funding catchment management programmes (eg Mahurangi – Hoteo river)

•Funding – beach clean ups

1. Land subdivision does not undermine the productive potential of rural land.

2. Further fragmentation of rural land by sporadic and scattered subdivision for urban and rural lifestyle purposes is prevented.

3. The use and development of existing titles rather than subdivision of land for new sites is encouraged.

4. The amalgamation and transfer of rural sites to areas that can best support them is encouraged.

1. Use existing rural sites rather than create new rural sites.

2. Enable the permanent protection of substantial areas of high quality indigenous vegetation or wetlands to generate the ability to subdivide land in:

a. appropriate, identified Countryside Living zones

b. other receiver areas identified in the Unitary Plan

c. rural or coastal towns or villages identified as receiver areas.

3. Provide new subdivision for purposes other than for rural lifestyle living where it is for:

a. the creation of parks and reserves, including esplanade reserves

b. the establishment and operation of infrastructure

c. rural production purposes

d. marae, papakāinga, urupā and other activities that support Māori relationships with their land where this land is managed by the Te Ture Whenua Māori Land Act 1993

e. special circumstances that provide for economic, social or cultural needs of the local rural community, and that cannot be met through the use of existing titles.

4. Through subdivision, enable the transfer of the residential development potential of rural sites from one place to another, and the rearrangement of site boundaries, to promote the productivity of land in existing rural titles and to:

a. manage population growth across all rural zones

b. improve environmental outcomes associated with the protection of identified areas of high natural values

c. improve the management of reverse sensitivity conflicts

d. avoid increasing the demand for infrastructure in remote areas, or across areas of scattered development.

5. Provide new rural lifestyle subdivision in Countryside Living zones.

6. Manage the location, scale, density and extent of Countryside Living zones to:

a. avoid areas that would undermine the integrity of the RUB or compromise the expansion of the satellite towns of Warkworth and Pukekohe, and rural and coastal towns and villages

b. avoid areas of identified high natural values and elite and prime land

c. avoid areas that would constrain the operation of existing mineral extraction activities or access to known and accessible future resources

d. maintain and enhance landscape and amenity values within the zone

e. consider opportunities for future intensification and retrofitting within the zone, including opportunities to be receiver areas for transferable rural site subdivision

f. avoid reverse sensitivity effects that hinder the continued operation or growth of existing rural activities, or the establishment of new rural activities.

•Zones objectives, policies and rules for Rural Production, Mixed Rural, Rural Coastal, Rural Conservation and Countryside Living zones.

•Auckland wide objectives, policies and rules for land use and subdivision

•to move from a fossil fuel-dependent, high energy using society to one that uses a greater proportion of renewable energy, conserves energy and resources and therefore reduces emission which contribute to climate change.

•to develop resilience to the impacts of future climate change and position Auckland to take advantage of opportunities that arise from a changing climate.

1. Auckland continually responds and adapts to the existing and future effects of climate change.

2. Auckland increases renewable energy use and maximises energy efficiency which will reduce emissions that contribute to the adverse effects of climate change.

1. Increase energy efficiency, the use of renewable energy and carbon sinks to contribute to the mitigation of the adverse effects of climate change in Auckland by:

a. integrating land use and transport to enable an increase in the use of public transport networks and active modes such as walking and cycling.

b. requiring 5 or more new dwellings and office and industrial buildings over 5000m² to achieve best practice sustainable design

c. encouraging all development to incorporate energy efficient design through solar orientation of the building, location of windows and inclusion of appropriate insulation and thermal mass

d. enable the retrofit of existing buildings to improve their energy efficiency and where appropriate incorporate renewable energy generation

e. protecting existing carbon sinks and promoting new carbon sequestration opportunities

f. encouraging new neighbourhoods to be planned to incorporate community scale energy generation, waste management and water sensitive design along with public and active transport networks

g. waste minimisation initiatives to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills and energy consumption associated with transport of waste

h. enabling the development of renewable electricity generation activities including wind farms and solar photovoltaic generation

i. encouraging other activities which improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions such as waste minimisation and local food production.

2. Increase the resilience of Auckland’s communities and natural and physical resources to the anticipated effects of climate change, such as sea level rise, increased risk from natural hazards, more frequent and extreme weather events, and increased drought conditions, by:

a. encouraging sustainable design in new development to increase water re-use and recycling which will lessen demands on the water infrastructure network design

b. preserving, protecting, and enhancing the extent and quality of areas with existing and potential indigenous ecological value, by developing an adaptive management response to climate change threats, such as pest and disease, as these become more evident

c. minimising the risk to urban development in areas vulnerable to sea level rise

d. ensuring development and associated infrastructure are designed and located taking into account most likely climate change predictions.

•Auckland-wide objectives, policies and rules for infrastructure, transport, network utilities and energy, natural hazards and flooding, air quality and sustainable design.

•Mapping of coastal inundation and flooding.

•Waste minimisation strategy.

•Auckland Council will lead by example in its own operations and services as a catalyst for change

•Advocate adaptation and mitigation principles to Auckland communities.

•Undertake research into natural hazards, including modelling the effects of climate change on areas susceptible to natural hazards

•Monitor identified areas susceptible to future coastal inundation.

•Population Growth

•Transport Linkages

•Economic Development

•Natural Environment

1.Strategies, policies and processes set out in the Auckland Plan.

2.Participation in the following bodies to address the management of cross boundary issues:

a.the Hauraki Gulf Forum

b.integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group

c.joint Kaipara Harbour Political Working Party

d.Upper North Island Strategic Alliance Agreement

e.the regional planners’ forum.

3.Consultation requirements of the RMA Schedule 1, relating to the preparation and change of policy statements and plans by local authorities.

4.Participation in joint policy and research projects eg Hauraki Gulf and Kaipara Harbour Marine Spatial Plans.

5.Technical co-operation on research and monitoring projects and the development of environmental indicators.

6.Cross boundary notification of significant resource consent applications and participation in joint hearing processes.

•the state of the environment

•the efficiency and effectiveness of policies, rules and other methods contained within the Unitary Plan

•the exercise of resource consents.

•regular monitoring of resource conditions such as water quality and soil

•identification and understanding of pressures exerted on resources at selected sites across Auckland at regular intervals

•targeted investigations

•information on resource consents, such as resource use, location, and extent of use

•implementation of resource consents.

1. The council may change the Unitary Plan when:

a. plan effectiveness monitoring identifies the need to enhance progress toward achieving anticipated environmental results, or

b. major resource management developments arise such as significant amendments to the RMA or the adoption of national policy statements or national environmental standards that impact on the contents of the Unitary Plan; or

c. the results of new scientific work enhance the Unitary Plan and make plan provisions more certain for resource users; or

d. there is a need to reflect new or changing needs or issues of importance to auckland’s community.