Tasman’s community and wellbeing values and the quality of its natural and built environment make this region highly valued and sought after by new and returning residents, land and service-based sectors, innovators, and creatives.
To provide for this growth, the Nelson Tasman Future Development Strategy 2022 – 2052 (FDS) identified the opportunity to consolidate growth along the state Highway 6 corridor from Atawhai to Wakefield while also providing growth opportunities in Motueka and Māpua and some of Tasman’s rural towns.
Work is now underway to prepare the draft Urban Growth Plan Change 81 to the Tasman Resource Management Plan for notification and public submissions.
The Plan Change will rezone more land for housing and business in Tasman and make it easier to build up in some of our towns.
The Plan Change 81 identifies nine towns where rezoning more land for housing and business is proposed: Richmond, Wakefield, Brightwater, Motueka, Moutere, St Arnaud, Tapawera, Tākaka and Murchison.
The plan change excludes Māpua where a Masterplan is in process, and Collingwood, where capacity is not needed within the next 10 years.
Plan Change 81 proposes to:
- Introduce a new Medium Density Residential Zone.
- Rezone some of the FDS sites for housing and business.
- Amend the Workers’ Accommodation definition and simplify the policy framework to support our growing workforce.
- Update Sunday noise limits standards.
- Amend Rural 3 requirements so developers are obliged to upgrade roads where they are substandard.
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