Important Natural Landscapes (Boffa Miskell, 2013)

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11SECTION B° N0 0.275 0.55 1.1 KmHurunui District | 2013
12Main DivideOutstanding Natural Feature/ LandscapeWhile we have not been asked to undertake a detailed review of all existing ONL boundaries, as currently shown in theDistrict Plan, they generally align with the ONLs identified in the Canterbury Regional Landscape Study. However, twoanomalies in the western part of the District were identified, where areas were excluded from the wider ONLs. Theseareas are located:a) around Philosophers Knob within the St James Conservation Area (surrounded by St James walkway) andb) around the headwaters of Hope, Doubtful, Nina Rivers (south of Lewis Pass within Lake Sumner Forest Park andtwo smaller conservation areas).Both of these areas were originally identified as significant landscape areas in the proposed Hurunui District Plan. A reviewof the 1995 landscape assessment (prepared by Di Lucas) was carried out by Allan Rackham of Boffa Miskell in 1999.This review again identified the Philosophers Knob area as a significant landscape. The Lewis Pass/Lake Sumner area wasnot included in this review. We note that the Wilkinson court decision (Wilkinson v Hurunui District Council C050/2000[2000] NZEnvC 78 (29 February 2000) led to the removal of significant landscape areas from the Plan.Since then these areas have been retired from farming and included in the Department of Conservation (DOC) managedconservation estate. This means that land cover regeneration is occurring in these areas and both their biophysical,sensory and associative qualities have improved since ONLs were identified for the currently operative district plan. Weconsider that these areas are of similar landscape quality in terms of their values and naturalness to the surroundingONLs. We, therefore, recommend that these areas are included into the surrounding ONLs from a technical point of view.While both of these areas are now owned by the Department ent of Conservationand therefore have public conservationland status, we consider additional protection through ONL identificationappropriate.HDC has discussed this matter with DOC (Waimakariri and Nelson/Marlborough Area offices) who have indicatedtheir full support for the inclusion of the areas as ONF/Ls. Smaller additions of DOC managed land have occurred alongthe tops of the Hanmer Range, land retired ed from Hossack Station (north of the upper Lottery River headwaters) andthe southern part of the Ka Whata Tu o Rakihouia Conservation Park around Mt Horrible, which extends into KaikouraDistrict.DRAFTHurunui District | 2013
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Page 7 and 8: 8Hurunui OutstandingNatural Feature
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Page 27 and 28: 28Hurunui Coastal AreasBased on the
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