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Northland Regional Council - 21 October 2009 Page 149 Item 24Resource Management Planning Documents inNorthland – An Analysis of Possible Future Options -Attachment OneEXECUTIVE SUMMARYNorthland’s four councils have produced a total of seven first generation resourcemanagement planning documents under the Resource Management Act 1991consisting of a Regional Policy Statement, three regional plans (air, water and soil,and coastal), and a district plan for each of the three districts (Far North, Whangarei,and Kaipara). The Regional Policy Statement is due for its 10 year statutory reviewand this has been a catalyst for the Northland Regional Council to investigatewhether combining some or all of Northland’s planning documents is warranted. Thisreport presents an analysis of the options available for combining the various plansand assesses their respective advantages and disadvantages from a resourcemanagement planning perspective.A semi-quantitative evaluation was undertaken which was based on the results of aworkshop which was attended by regional council and district council staff. Thisevaluation ranked each option using a number of assessment criteria.A qualitative evaluation was also undertaken which examined the advantages anddisadvantages of each option in terms of likely decision making drivers. Theevaluation was based on a literature review, interviews with frequent users of theplans, discussions with planning staff of other councils that have combined planningdocuments, and comments made by the workshop participants. An analysis of thecosts and timeframes of producing plans and undertaking plan changes is presented.Four decision making drivers have been identified:1) user-friendliness;2) integrated resource management;3) cost; and4) timeliness.These drivers are considered to be the matters that any resource managementplanning document should ideally achieve. The evaluations were based on thesefour drivers.In reviewing how the other regional councils in New Zealand have structured, or areproposing to structure, their planning documents, it is clear that many differentapproaches have been taken. However, it can be concluded that no onecombination appears to have been consistently selected by all regional councils.This would suggest that there is no ‘clear winner’, because if there was onecombination or option that ‘ticked all the boxes’ then it would be expected that mostof the councils would have followed that combination or option.Overall, developing a new ‘one plan’ (combined Regional Policy Statement, regionalplan, and district plan) for Northland, together with a suite of user-friendly ‘smart’technologies, would best ‘tick all the boxes’ and as such is the recommended option.This option is the best from a pure planning perspective. However, for this option tobe entertained, and before such a process is embarked upon, it is critical that all fourcouncils have ‘buy-in’ to the journey, particularly at a political level. Continuedpolitical support for such a project is paramount to its success and any politicaldiscontent between any of the four councils during the process could be disastrousand could render much of the previous work worthless.
Northland Regional Council - 21 October 2009 Page 150 Item 24In the event that political buy-in is unable to be achieved and guaranteed, it isrecommended that the three district councils maintain their respective district plansand that the Northland Regional Council prepares a new (separate) Regional PolicyStatement and then commence work on preparing a single regional plan (to replacethe three existing regional plans).E:\COUNCIL\COUNCIL AGENDAS\2009 COUNCIL AGENDAS\OCTOBER 2009\RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING DOCUMENTS IN NORTHLANDATTACH 1.DOC
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