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Council consults over District Plan Variations
The Invercargill City Council added another proposed change to its new District Plan, now totalling eight proposed changes, known as ‘Variations’.
The District Plan is the set of rules that govern where and how certain activities and developments can be undertaken in Invercargill and Bluff.
Senior Policy Planner, Gareth Clarke said that under the Resource Management Act all councils are required to review their District Plans every 10 years from when the present District Plan became operative.
The present Invercargill City District Plan became operative in 2005 and the Council is currently in the process of finalising the details of the Proposed District Plan, which will replace the existing Plan.
The Variation was publicly notified on Saturday 21 November 2015 and owners of properties within the proposed Residential 3 Zone will receive a letter with a copy of the public notice in the mail. Full details of the proposed changes will be available on the Council website with hard copies available at the Civic Administration Building, Bluff Service Centre, and the Library.
Mr Clarke said that any person may make a submission on the Variations. The closing date for submissions on the latest Variation is Friday 18 December 2015. Submissions on Variations 1 – 7 close this Friday, 27 November.
Background – Proposed Variation
Variation 8 – Residential 3 (Large Lot) Zone
The Residential 3 (Large Lot) Zone is a zone that was introduced through the Proposed District Plan and has not yet come into effect. This Zone covers areas around Retreat Road / Bainfield Road and Oteramika Road / Rockdale Road. Provisions in this Zone permit residential development on properties down to 2,000m2.
Variation 8 proposes to reduce the size of the Residential 3 Zone and rezone some land as Rural 2 (Rural Transition Zone). The changes proposed also alter a number of provisions to make it more difficult to develop on properties below 2,000m2 in the Residential 3 Zone, and to clarify the proposed approach to services within this Zone.
For more information on the Proposed District Plan, and the eight Variations, visit Council’s website, www.icc.govt.nz/public-documents/dp-review-process/