Plan Change 1

Variation 2 to Plan Change 1
Plan Change 1
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marina The Plan Change covers a raft of issues relating to moorings and marinas. The Plan Change also results in a number of amendments to identified mooring areas to better represent the actual location of current moorings.

The plan change has been adopted by council and is awaiting sign off from the Minister of Conservation. However, council has recently decided to undertake a variation to the plan change.

Variation 2 to Plan Change 1

In June 2011, the Regional Council decided to prepare a variation to Plan Change 1 to remove all existing provisions from the plan change relating to the development of Mooring Management Plans (MMPs). There will also be some additional changes to how moorings will be dealt with within mooring areas.

Find the June 2011 council agenda with the item that authorised the variation.

Council decided to undertake the variation because the development of MMPs (which are site specific mooring plans) was proving too costly and it became apparent that it would be difficult to agree who should pay for and provide new land based facilities in association with mooring areas.

This variation will remove the requirement for MMPs and make existing moorings in mooring areas a permitted activity (as opposed to requiring resource consent like they currently do). New moorings in mooring areas would require resource consent for their initial placement but once in the water, they would become a permitted activity.

The intention is for the Variation to be publically notified in March 2012.

View the text and maps for Plan Change 1 (Moorings and Marinas) online

The maps show the new Marine 4 (Moorings including Marinas) Management Areas. These will be inserted into the Regional Coastal Plan for Northland Maps once Plan Change 1 (Moorings and Marinas) is made operative. The Marine 4 (Moorings) Management Areas currently identified in the Regional Coastal Plan that are unmodified by Plan Change 1 (Moorings and Marinas) are not shown in these maps.

You can download or view a copy of the final text (incorporating Variation 1 and Consent Orders) and maps for Plan Change 1 (Moorings and Marinas) by clicking on the links below. When operative, this will replace Section 28 of the Regional Coastal Plan and amend the Moorings and Marinas rules applicable in Marine 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 Management Areas.

pdf logo Download final text for Plan Change 1 (Final incl Variation 1 & Consent Orders) (303KB)