Regulatory Committee Agenda - Waipa District Council

7.3.4 Weighting of District Plans
The foregoing assessment of the application under the operative and proposed
District Plans produces the same outcome, being that a telecommunication
connection is required. In these circumstances, there is no need to consider the
relative weight to be applied to the provisions of the two plans.
7.4 Provisions of Other Statutory Planning Documents
The application is consistent with the provisions of the Waikato Regional Policy
Statement and the Waikato Regional Plan, and does not raise any issues that are
contrary to any national policy statement.
7.5 Other Relevant Matters
There are no other relevant matters that require consideration in the assessment of
this application.
8 PART 2 MATTERS
8.1 All considerations under Section 104 are subject to Part 2 of the RMA, which sets out
the purpose and principles of the RMA.
8.2 Part 2 of the RMA is its purpose and principles. The overall purpose is to promote the
sustainable management of natural and physical resources. This is defined as
managing the use and development of resources in a way that enables people and
communities to provide for the social, economic and cultural well-being, and for their
health and safety, while avoid ing, remedying or mitigating adverse effects on the
environment.
8.3 The nature of the change sought can be perceived as having both positive and
negative consequences when viewed against Section 5. On one hand the change will
enable the applicant to provide for their social and economic well-being at a limited
cost, whereas on the other hand it may result in future landowners being penalized
and subject to those costs which should have been borne by the applicant being the
one that directly benefited financial from the creation of the new allotment.
8.4 Section 6 requires consent authorities to recognise and provide for a number of
matters of national importance in exercising powers and functions under the RMA
and Section 7 lists the other matters to which Council shall have particular regard.
There are no Section 6 and Section 7 matters that are relevant to the amendments
sought by this application.
8.5 Section 8 requires all persons exercising powers under it to take into account the
principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. In terms of this proposal, consultation was
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