What is a District Plan Review?
The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) requires that district plans be reviewed within ten years of becoming operative. The South Waikato District Plan was first notified in 1993 and it became operative in 1998. This plan is currently under review, and it is anticipated that the revised version will be notified for formal submissions in early 2012. There is only allowed to be one operative district plan at any time within the district.
The RMA requires that a review of the district plan considers all sections of the plan, regardless of when those parts became operative. In the South Waikato district the Rural Residential zone and Heritage parts of the plan only became operative in March 2009. Therefore, while they are to be reviewed, it is not proposed to make any significant changes to these parts of the plan.
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Newsletter 1 August 2009
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