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Consolidated notes from the Plan Structure and Provision Writing Workshop November 2005

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These notes summarise the key discussion and agreement points from a two-day workshop involving 15 experienced resource management practitioners drawn from councils, consultancies and the Resource Management Law Association of New Zealand. The workshop was held at the Ministry for the Environment Wellington offices on 24th and 25th November 2005. The notes have been prepared using individual sets of comprehensive notes taken by Ministry for the Environment staff over the two days of the workshop. These have been compared and combined in an attempt to confirm the key messages and areas of agreement from the workshop.

The “key points” represent the main ideas and points where there seems to be a reasonable level of agreement. It needs to be acknowledged that agreement was not unanimous in all cases.

Day One Session One: How directive should a regional policy statement be?

  • Discussion
    • The role of the RPS and ‘directiveness’
    • Issues in the RPS
  • Key points

Day One Session Two: Features of a well organised and structured RPS

  • Discussion
    • The Horizons OnePlan
    • Dealing with issue significance and variability
    • Issues, content and writing of the RPS
    • One plan or many?
    • Use of explanations in the RPS
  • Key points

Day One Session Three: Regional and district plan structure

  • Discussion
    • Regional plans
    • District plans
  • Key points

Day Two Session One: Writing issues in plans

  • Discussion
    • Regionally significant issues and testing issues
    • Updating guidelines on writing issues
  • Key points

Day Two Session Two: Writing objectives and policies

  • Discussion
    • Some guiding principles
    • Objectives
    • Policies
  • Key points

Day Two Session Three: Writing methods and rules

  • Discussion
    • Methods
    • Rules
  • Key points

Disclaimer: The material contained in this document is a record of open discussions only. While readers are free to use the information in their own discussions in plan preparation under the Resource Management Act no guarantee is made as the legal accuracy of the information contained in this document or liability accepted resulting from the use of it. Ideas and opinions expressed in this document do not in any way represent the official position of views of the Ministry for the Environment or any of the official views of any of the other organisations from which participants were drawn.

Day One

Attendance: Tami Woods (Greater Wellington RC), Andy Ralph (Tauranga CC), Martin Butler (EBOP), Phillip Martelli (Western Bay of Plenty DC), Pam Gare (Invercargill CC), Tony Quickfall (Nelson CC), Hans Versteegh (Marlborough CC), Karen Bell (Auckland CC), Andrew Feierabend (Hurunui DC), Patrick McHardy (Manawatu DC) Duncan Laing (RMLA / Simpson Grierson), Jan Crawford (facilitator), Greg Hill (facilitator), Richard Hills (MfE), Greg Vossler (MfE), Rebecca Young (MfE).

Apologies: Andrew Geurin (Kapiti Coast DC), Fraser McRae (Otago RC), Nicola Shorten (Greater Wellington RC).

Day two

Attendance: Andy Ralph (Tauranga CC), Andrew Guerin (Kapiti Coast DC), Martin Butler (EBOP), Phillip Martelli (Western Bay of Plenty DC), Pam Gare (Invercargill CC), Tony Quickfall (Nelson CC), Hans Versteegh (Marlborough CC), Karen Bell (Auckland CC), Andrew Feierabend (Hurunui DC), Patrick McHardy (Manawatu DC), Bill Loutit (RMLA / Simpson Grierson), Jan Crawford, Greg Hill, Richard Hills, Greg Vossler, Rebecca Young.

Apologies: Fraser McRae (Otago RC), Nicola Shorten (Greater Wellington RC), Tami Woods (Greater Wellington RC).

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Last updated: 26 October 2007