Around 270 people call Collingwood home. Modest growth is expected for the future. Natural values include the hill backdrop, the coastal margin of the Ruataniwha Inlet, and the sand dunes. The town centre is vulnerable to coastal hazards and rising sea levels.
- Collingwood is vulnerable to coastal hazards and sea level rise. It forms part of Council’s Coastal Management Project working with our coastal communities on our long-term adaptive planning response. More information is available here.
- As Collingwood grows and changes, there is a risk that it can lose its distinctive sense of place, identity, and character, including values associated with its natural hill backdrop, and margins of the Ruataniwha Inlet.
- Land currently zoned for commercial and residential use is taken up.
- Encourage any future development to locate behind the existing developed area and to avoid its spread along the coastline or into areas that are highly visible, have high natural values and are vulnerable to natural hazards and sea level rise.
- Implement the Future Development Strategy which provides for additional residential and business land.
- Improve public access around the Ruataniwha Inlet peninsula.
- Protect bush remnants on the coastal scarps at Collingwood.
- As part of work towards long-term adaptive planning for sea level rise and coastal hazards, consider a range of land use-planning measures for discussion with the community mid-2023 (via the Coastal Management Project work programme). Measures may include controlling the types and densities of land uses (via zoning), subdivision and building restrictions, or identification of coastal setbacks or coastal risk areas.
