Plan Changes
The environmental planning space is set to be transformed with four plan changes happening.
Council's Strategy and Policy Committee in considering pending and potential changes to New Zealand’s environmental legislation has adopted a short-term workstream focus approach to maintain progress for 5-key Environmental Policy workstreams.
A reset of Tasman’s Environmental Policy has become necessary because of the current Government’s program of resource management reform (RM reform). The programme reset maintains momentum and ensures we avoid continuing with work that may have to be repeated in the future.
The short-term focus environmental workstreams are:
These workstreams are being progressed via changes to the existing Tasman Resource Management Plan through 2024 to 2026 and reviewed regularly to prioritise whether they remain the same or changes need to be made.
Work on policy outside of the short-term focus workstreams, will be paused until there is clarity on the future. However, there are projects that will continue alongside the focus workstreams, and they are:
Background
In August 2023 two new pieces of legislation were created, the Spatial Planning Act (SPA) and the Natural and Built Environment Act (NBEA). These two acts were part of a package of reforms that were intended to replace the Resource Management Act (RMA).
The three new acts were:
Following the 2023 General election, the incoming Government promptly repealed the new Acts and reinstated the Resource Management Act (RMA). The Government has its own RM reform program that is divided into three phases:
Phase one was the repeal of the two acts introduced by the previous Government.
Phase two is aimed at improving the performance of the RMA by removing unnecessary regulations for primary industries and barriers to investment in development and infrastructure while maintaining environmental protections. Phase two includes:
Check back here for updates on progress.
The environmental planning space is set to be transformed with four plan changes happening.
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