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Auckland Regional Policy Statement

Proposed Change 8: Landscape and Volcanic Features

Proposed Change to the Auckland Regional Policy Statement amended the existing landscape and volcanic cone viewshaft provisions in Chapter 6: Heritage. The changes included:

  • amendments to map series 2 and 3 and new map series 3a to replace the existing Outstanding and Regionally Significant Landscapes with new Outstanding and Natural Features information
  • amendments to appendix F: Auckland regional landscape assessment to explain how the Outstanding Natural Landscapes were identified and a table that summaries the key landscape attributes of Outstanding Natural Landscapes
  • amendments to map series 4 and new map series 4a to incorporate the revised volcanic cone viewshafts
  • a new appendix F listing the new volcanic cone viewshafts  and their surveyed coordinates
  • new issues, objectives, policies and methods in chapter 6: heritage and accompanying reasons relating to the identification and management of volcanic features and volcanic viewshafts and Outstanding Natural Landscapes and other landscapes in the Auckland region

Change 8 part one: volcanic features and viewshafts

Change 8 has been managed in two parts. Decisions on the volcanic features and viewshaft policies and maps were released in October 2007. Appeals to these provisions have been resolved and a consent order issued by the Environment Court on 19 October 2010. The consent order version of the volcanic features and viewshafts provisions are awaiting the approval of the Auckland Council.
View the consent order version of change 8 relating to volcanic features and volcanic viewshafts (text and maps) here.

Consent order - 19 Oct 2010 (4.8 MB PDF)

Change 8 part two: landscape

There were no decisions released in October 2007 on the landscape part of change 8.  The council resolved to undertake a variation to address matters raised by submissions to the landscape objectives, policies and methods.  This variation was subsequently brought into the 2008-2010 review of the Auckland Regional Policy Statement.  Following central government’s decision to establish a new single Auckland Council, the Regional Strategy and Planning Committee reviewed ongoing work on the regional policy statement review.  It resolved to complete change 8: landscape decisions process prior to the disestablishment of the Auckland Regional Council.  The Regional Strategy and Planning Committee adopted the decisions of the reconvened Change 8 Hearings Committee at its 6 October 2010 meeting and these decisions were publicly notified on Wednesday 27 October 2010.

The decisions on the landscape part of change 8 are in four parts and can be viewed here:

Decisions report of the Hearings Committee (1.2 MB PDF)
 

Decisions version - chapter 6 (202.8 KB PDF)

Appendix F-2 (541.3 KB PDF)

Change 8: Decisions Version of Map Series 3a: Outstanding Natural Landscapes

RPS Change 8 - Map index (706.5 KB PDF)
 

RPS Change 8 - Map 1 (2.7 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 2 (3.9 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 3 (3.1 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 4 (3.8 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 5 (4.0 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 6 (2.9 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 7 (2.7 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 8 (3.3 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 9 (3.1 MB PDF)

RPS Change 8 - Map 10 (2.3 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 11 (3.5 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 12 (1.8 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 13 (2.9 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 14 (3.8 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 15 (1.2 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 16 (1.6 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 17 (3.3 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 18 (2.1 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 19 (2.0 MB PDF)

RPS Change 8 - Map 20 (2.8 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 21 (2.9 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 22 (3.6 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 23 (2.1 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 24 (3.4 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 25 (3.9 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 26 (2.2 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 27 (3.4 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 28 (1.6 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 29 (3.1 MB PDF)

RPS Change 8 - Map 30 (702.0 KB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 31 (1.7 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 32 (2.3 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 33 (2.4 MB PDF)
RPS Change 8 - Map 34 (1.7 MB PDF)

Process from now

Any person who made a submission or further submission to the landscape part of change 8: volcanic features and landscape may lodge an appeal against the decisions of the Auckland Regional Council on the submissions within 30 working days of receiving the decisions report and associated material. 

All appeals must be lodged with the Environment Court in Auckland (together with a filing fee of $511.10) at:

The Environment Court
Auckland Registry
DX: CX 10086
Auckland

Copies of any appeal are also required to be served on:

  • the Auckland Council within 30 working days of receiving these decisions; and 
  • every person who made a submission on the provision or matter to which the appeal relates, within 5 working days after the notice of appeal is lodged with the Environment Court.

The prescribed form for an appeal is set out as form 7 in the Resource Management (Forms, Fees and Procedures) Regulations 2003.  Further information is also available on the website of the Environment Court of New Zealand

Responsibility for Change 8 part 2: landscape has now transferred to the Auckland Council. Copies of any appeals should be sent to:

Manager Operative Plans
Regional and Local Planning Department
Auckland Council
Private Bag 92300
Auckland 1142
Attention: Matthew Twose, Team Leader Region Wide, Planning and Policy
Operative Plans Unit

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