North Canterbury News: July 16, 2020
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Conservation incentives proposed<br />
By DAVID HILL<br />
The Waimakariri District<br />
Council is considering offering<br />
landowners incentives to help<br />
protect biodiversity as part of<br />
its District Plan Review.<br />
Councillorslastweek<br />
approved in principal a<br />
proposal to offer aresource<br />
consent pathway for ‘‘bonus<br />
lots’’ and additionalhousingon<br />
ruralzoned land to offsetthe<br />
costsofprotecting indigenous<br />
biodiversity.<br />
Staffwill now draft achapter<br />
as partofthe council’s District<br />
Plan review.<br />
‘‘Council staff have been<br />
investigating how to best<br />
manage the ongoing declineof<br />
indigenousbiodiversity<br />
through the District Plan<br />
review process,’’ Mayor Dan<br />
Gordon says.<br />
‘‘Thecouncilapproved the<br />
development of achapter in<br />
the upcoming draft District<br />
Plan to provide incentives for<br />
protecting areas of biodiversity<br />
by allowingsubdivisionand<br />
development incentives, as<br />
well as ‘bonus lots’and<br />
‘transferable development<br />
rights’.<br />
‘‘This is beingdeveloped as a<br />
pathway to encourage and<br />
provide incentives for<br />
landowners to protect<br />
biodiverse areas.’’<br />
Asurvey of landowners with<br />
listed significant natural areas<br />
foundthat most would respond<br />
well to incentives, but there<br />
were different views about<br />
what incentives would appeal.<br />
Conservation plan ... Native bush on afarm. Landowners could be offered incentives to protect<br />
biodiversity under aWaimakariri District Council proposal.<br />
PHOTO: SUPPLIED<br />
Somelandowners believed<br />
their natural areas were well<br />
looked after, capable of<br />
‘‘looking afteritself’’ or was<br />
‘‘too overgrowntobeworth<br />
doing any additional<br />
maintenance’’,astaff report<br />
says.<br />
The council soughtfeedback<br />
on transferabledevelopment<br />
rights andsubdivision<br />
incentives, which are<br />
commonly usedby<strong>North</strong><br />
Island councils,but around 80<br />
percent of respondents had no<br />
knowledge of these options.<br />
Asubdivisionincentive<br />
would allowfor the<br />
development of a‘‘bonus lot’’<br />
in exchange for protecting a<br />
natural areainperpetuity,<br />
while transferable development<br />
rights allowed a<br />
landowner to sell the rightto<br />
subdivide in an open market.<br />
Some landownerswere<br />
opposed to theseincentives,<br />
citingconcern overadverse<br />
effects to rural character.<br />
Otherswere open to the idea<br />
of subdivision incentives and<br />
some wanted more<br />
information.<br />
The survey findings found<br />
that ‘‘monitoring requirements<br />
associated with subdivision<br />
incentives didnot put landowners<br />
off’’, the reportsaid.<br />
One landowner indicated<br />
some positive feedback would<br />
provide the biggestincentive,<br />
whileanother alreadyhad<br />
land under aQE2 covenant.<br />
Extrapest traps,funding for<br />
fencing and waiving consent<br />
fees were also suggested by<br />
landowners as incentives.<br />
Respondents also asked for<br />
more support with planting.<br />
The proposal still needs to go<br />
through theDistrict Plan<br />
process,sothere will be<br />
opportunities forresidentsto<br />
have theirsay, Mr Gordon says.<br />
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