This year, the focus is starting work to inform a future Natural Hazards plan change that addresses coastal hazards and sea level rise, flooding, wildfires, earthquake faults, liquefaction, and slope instability.
It's a crucial effort to ensure our communities are resilient to natural hazards, but also adapt to the evolving challenges of climate change including sea level rise.
While we can't control the forces of nature, we can significantly reduce their impact by building our capacity to withstand and recover.
Tasman District Council is committed to this proactive approach. We manage land and resources strategically, implement preventative and harm-reduction measures for natural hazards, and maintain a robust emergency response system.
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On 28th May 2024, the Strategy and Policy Committee endorsed the Natural Hazards Plan Change work programme. This work will span several years, and work is now underway as a first step drafting a natural hazard’s issues and options report for community engagement in early 2025.
The council’s risk reduction approach involves identifying issues and options for each natural hazard.
This approach builds on community engagement in 2019 on coastal hazards, and sea level rise mapping. This was followed in 2022 with educational engagement on geological hazards and work on high level options for coastal management.
Improvements have been identified to strengthen the natural hazards and planning framework based on the best available information and this information will feed into the issues and options report.
Getting involved
We want to acknowledge the past feedback by our community to our coastal hazards and geological hazards engagements over recent years. The willingness to take the time to share local knowledge and an understanding of the environmental, cultural, economic, and social wellbeing issues that underly this work is the foundation of our future work.
As we prepare to engage in the community conversation and submission process for this plan change, we will publish details of engagement events on this website, through Newsline and other communication channels and media.
