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These objectives are achieved through the policies and methods, including rules, contained in all the other chapters in the District Plan. The objectives in the Strategic Direction Chapter will be particularly relevant when considering plan changes in the future as well as resource consent applications or designations which raise strategic issues.
The Strategic Directions Chapter has seven sub-chapters with objectives covering climate change and resilience, historic and cultural heritage, natural environment, rural environment, tangata whenua, urban form and development, and infrastructure.
At the end of 2022 we consulted on a Draft District Plan and received feedback from the community. We have considered this feedback in preparing the Proposed District Plan which is now open for public submissions.
The Operative Wairarapa District Plan still continues to apply for now. Much of the Proposed District Plan won’t apply straight away but some rules do have immediate legal effect. This means these rules apply now and may result in resource consent being required for some activities that were not otherwise required under the Operative Wairarapa District Plan.
Rules that apply now are identified in the Proposed District Plan chapters with a red gavel symbol.
There are no rules in the Strategic Directions Chapter.
If a resource consent is required under the Operative and/or the Proposed District Plan, Council must determine how much weight to give the provisions of each plan, with more or less weight given depending on how far the rules in the Proposed District Plan are through the plan making process.
The Proposed District Plan is open for submissions for a 9-week period from 11 Oct. 2023 until 19 Dec. 2023.
The Proposed District Plan submission process is a statutory process governed by the Resource Management Act. Submissions must be made in the prescribed form.
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