Kaipara’s Proposed District Plan is on track to be notified in 2024.  

A District Plan Working Party, comprised of Councillors Gordon Lambeth, Jonathan Larsen (Chairperson), Ron Manderson and Mark Vincent, and an external Resource Management Act expert (Mark Farnsworth), has been working alongside staff since June this year to finalise development of the Proposed District Plan. 

This approach provides more flexibility than a full Council briefing and can dive deeper into areas of the District Plan where further work and refinement of the new Plan is required. 

All Elected Members will have an opportunity to provide feedback on the recommendations of the working party once this process has concluded. 

Once the Proposed District Plan is notified, it will go out for public consultation so the community will be able to provide feedback before the Plan is operative. 

In the meantime, the current Operative Kaipara District Plan remains in place and should be used to guide land use and subdivision across the district.  

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A District Plan is the Council’s rule book that determines the land use and subdivision activities people can carry out in the district.  

It is important to note that the Exposure Draft District Plan, released in August 2022, has no ‘legal weight’ and people need to continue to refer to the Operative District Plan with regards to whether a resource consent is required to undertake activities on their land. 

Councils are required to review their District Plans every ten years. Kaipara’s Operative District Plan came into effect in 2013 and is due for review now. 

You can read The Exposure Draft District Plan here including the Summary of feedback received