District Plan
What is the District Plan?
The Council is required to prepare a District Plan under the Resource Management Act 1991. The District Plan is the primary document that manages land use and development within the Rangitīkei District.
The District Plan contains objectives, policies and rules for the management of land and resource in the district. The District Plan also splits the district into zones (e.g. Residential, Rural and Commercial) and regulates what activities can be undertaken in each zone and how land in each zone can be developed.
To view the Rangitīkei District Plan please click on the following link:
Rangitīkei District Plan Background
The Rangitīkei District Plan is the “second generation” plan to be developed for this district under the Resource Management Act 1991 and it became operative on 3 October 2013.
Since this District Plan was made operative two (2) plan changes have been undertaken.
Plan Change 1 was undertaken in 2016 and is operative. It was effectively a “miscellaneous” plan change that aimed to address some unintended consequences of provisions introduced as part of the last full review of the District Plan as well as some other minor amendments. The key changes included:
- Removal of the liquefaction, ground shaking, landslide and active fault hazard maps
- Refinement of the flood map for Hunterville
- Refinement of the West Taihape Slip zone provisions
- Amendments to the heritage provisions for Marton town centre
- Commercial zoning provisions in the district’s rural settlements
- Signage provisions and building boundary setbacks in the Rural zone
Plan Change 2 was undertaken to rezone Rural land at 1165, 1151 and 1091 State Highway 1, Marton. The purpose of this plan change was to facilitate industrial development of a scale that could not be accommodated by the existing vacant industrial zoned land within Marton and which has good access to State Highway 1 and the Main Trunk Rail Line.
The decision and subsequent Environment Court Hearing have resulted in approximately 65ha being zoned Industrial and the addition of specific objectives, policies, and rules into the District Plan for this area. For more information about this plan change see:
Proposed Plan Change 1165, 1151 and 1091 State Highway 1, Marton