Plan Change 14
Residential Subdivision, Land Development Manual and Comprehensive Housing
Notification Date: 25 September 2010
Operative Date: 09 September 2013
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At its meeting on 29 August 2013 Nelson City Council resolved to make policy RE3.5 Streetscape, rules REr.25 Front Yards and REr.31 Fences, the remaining provisions of Plan Change 14 operative following resolution of appeals and ensuing Environment Court Consent Order. Documents can be viewed at the "Document Library" section at the bottom of the page.
Operative in Part
At its 1 November 2012 meeting Council approved all parts of Plan Change 14 that are not subject to appeal (those parts not relating to the proposed Streetscape Policy, Front Yard Rule and Fence Rules). Those parts of the Plan Change became operative on 12 November 2012.
Parts Under Appeal
Decisions were notified on 30 June 2012. One appeal was lodged with the Environment Court from Mark and Kim Lile, challenging the decisions on the proposed Streetscape Policy, Front Yard Rule and Fence Rules. Two others sought to be party to proceedings under s274 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (Marsden Park Limited and Daelyn Holdings Limited).
The only affected provisions of Plan Change 14 are those that are subject to appeal, all other proposed provisions (those not subject to appeal) must now be “treated as operative” under RMA s86F.
The full Notice of Appeal and s274 notices are available for download from the “Document Library” section below.
Submissions, Hearing and Decisions
Plan Change 14 was publicly notified on 25 September 2010. Submissions closed on 3 December 2010 and 27 submissions were received. A summary of submissions was publicly notified on 22 January 2011 and further submissions closed on 4 February 2011 (one received).
Council engaged a hearing panel (chaired by a Councillor and assisted by an Independent Commissioner and Councillors) to hear and make decisions on submissions to Plan Change 14. A hearing was held on 28 November 2011 and the Commissioner’s decisions were received by Council. Decisions were publicly notified on 30 June 2012.
The decisions were to adopt the Plan Change as notified with minor amendments to the following:
- urban design objectives and policies;
- Services Overlay policies and rules;
- streetscape policy and front yards and fence rules;
- subdivision rule in the Landscape Overlay;
- Roading Hierarchy;
- Residential subdivision rule and Appendix 14.
The Commissioners recommended that a Streetscape Design Guide to assist with the interpretation of the front yard and front fence provisions be made available at the time of the release of the decision. A Draft Streetscape Design Guide can be downloaded here. (507KB PDF)
The full decisions document can be downloaded from the "Document Library" section below.
Background
Plan Change 14 seeks to update and incorporate better urban design approaches into the Nelson Resource Management Plan, NCC’s Engineering Standards (now called the Land Development Manual 2010) and into Council administration and policy processes.
The main changes proposed are summarised as follows:
- Adds a range of definitions to chapter 2 Meaning of Words.
- Changes and additions to Chapter 3 Administration to update Council administration processes and relationships with external documents. This also includes changes to the Services Overlay description.
- Inserts new urban design issues and explanation into Chapter 4 Resource Management Issues.
- Amends and inserts new objectives, polices, methods, environmental results and performance indicators in Chapter 5 District Wide Objectives and Policies for Land Transport, Urban Design and Subdivision and Development.
- Amends the Residential Zone policies and rule tables for streetscape, front yards, subdivision, comprehensive housing, fences and services and landscape overlays.
- Amends Appendix 6 Riparian and Coastal Margins to add additional values for esplanade reserves.
- Amends Appendices 10 Parking and Loading, 11 Access Standards and 12 Tracking Curves to update content and align with the NCC Land Development Manual 2010.
- Deletes Appendix 13 Engineering Standards in favour of using the new NCC Land Development Manual, referenced as an external document.
- Amends Appendix 14 to compliment the amended Residential Subdivision Rules and the NCC Land Development Manual, including the deletion of the roading table from the NRMP. A new roading table is located in the NCC Land Development Manual.
- Amends Appendix 22 Comprehensive Housing to clarify the outcomes desired.
- Externally reference throughout the Plan the NCC Land Development Manual 2010 as a means of compliance for controlled activity subdivisions, and as an assessment criterion for restricted discretionary and discretionary activity subdivisions. Amends all references to Appendix 14 throughout the Plan to instead reference to the new roading tables in the NCC Land Development Manual 2010.
Document Library
- Plan Change 14 - Public notice of proposed plan change - September 2010 (29KB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Proposed plan amendments - September 2010 (1.7MB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Section 32 Report - September 2010 (780KB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Public Notice of submissions and inviting further submissions - January 2011 (25KB PDF)
- Summary of Submissions Decisions Requested - January 2011 (316KB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - S42A Planning Officer's Report - November 2011 (3.5MB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Hearing Commissioners Minutes - 24 November 2011 (214KB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Public notice of decisions - June 2012 (26KB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Hearing Commissioner Report - June 2012 (2.4MB PDF)
- Notice of Appeal: Mark and Kim Lile - August 2012 (79KB PDF)
- RMA s275 party to proceedings: Marsden Park Limited (150KB PDF)
- RMA s275 party to proceedings: Daelyn Holdings Limited (28KB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Public Notice of Operative in part - November 2012 (21KB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Operative Plan Amendments - 1 November 2012 (4.1MB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Memorandum seeking Consent Order - 18 June 2013 (32KB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Consent Order - July 2013 (104KB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Public Notice of Operative Date RE3.5, REr.25 and REr.31 - September 2013 (259KB PDF)
- Plan Change 14 - Front Yard and Fence Rules - 2013 (44KB PDF)
- Building a fence? Flyer (430KB PDF)
If you would like further information regarding this Plan Change, please contact the Environmental Planning Administrator on 03 546 0200 or environmental.planning@ncc.govt.nz.