Plan Change A1
Notification Date: 25 September 2010
Operative Date: 12 March 2012
At its meeting on 7 April 2011 Council resolved to engage an independent Commissioner to hear and make decisions on submissions on proposed Council Plan Change A1 to the NAQP. A hearing was held on 15 July 2011 and the Council publicly notified its decisions on Saturday 5 November 2011.
A copy of the Commissioner’s Report on Hearing and Decisions on Submissions along with the public notice of decisions is available for download under the ‘Documents and downloads’ section below.
Every submitter and further submitter was served with a copy of these decisions and under Cl.14 of the First Schedule of the RMA any submitter or further submitter was able appeal a provision or matter that was the subject of their submission to the Environment Court within 30 working days.
No appeals were lodged in relation to Plan Change A1 and, at its meeting on 23 February 2012, the Council resolved to approve the plan change and make it operative on 12 March 2012.
Background
Proposed Plan Change A1 consists of six parts:
- A new rule to deal with the use of wood pellet fuel in industrial-scale fuel burning appliances.
- Transitional provisions for domestic open fires and enclosed burners in rural properties which, through change in land use or rezoning, become subject to the Air Quality Plan’s ‘Urban Area’ controls. The new rule allows such fires to continue to be used and replaced in the future with clean air approved burners if the owners wish.
- An update to the map showing what is ‘Urban Area’.
- Correcting an error that prevents existing ‘Jetmaster’-type fires within the Urban Area (which can be used until 1 January 2013) from being replaced with a complying woodburner.
- Deleting rule AQr.55A which allows the burning of certain agricultural plastics. There are now two product stewardship programmes that operate in the region enabling the recycling rather than burning of bale wrap and agrichemical containers.
- A minor change to allow different stack (flue) arrangements for domestic burners running on diesel.
Documents and downloads
- Public notice of Proposed Plan Change (29KB PDF)
- Proposed Plan Amendments - Plan Change A1 (1.2MB PDF)
- Section 32 Report - Plan Change A1 (359KB PDF)
- Public notice inviting further submissions (42KB PDF)
- Summary of Decisions Requested (206KB PDF)
- Officer's s42A Report (934KB PDF)
- Public notice on decision of plan changes (50KB PDF)
- Plan Change A1 Changes to Various Provisions Report of Hearing and Decisions on Submissions (811KB PDF)
- Public notice of operative date (37KB PDF)
If you would like further information regarding this Plan Change, please contact the Environmental Planning Administrator on 03 546 0200 or environmental.planning@ncc.govt.nz.