Additional provisions you need to be aware of when reading the District Plan.
If you are looking to develop a property in areas where coastal hazard provisions apply, or change how a property is used, you need to refer to the coastal hazard provisions in the Christchurch City Plan and the Banks Peninsula District Plan.
Provisions that still apply are:
Operative provisions to be retained for coastal hazards only: Policy 2.5.2 – Limitations on development To avoid any increased risk of adverse effects on property, wellbeing and safety scale and density of development, which: (a) is within an area subject to moderate to high risk of damage from natural hazards Policy 2.5.4 – Sea level rise To avoid higher density forms of built development, and adverse effects from inundation, in areas that are projected to be subject to increased flood levels as a result of accelerated sea level rise. Policy 2.5.9 – Works To undertake works to avoid or mitigate the adverse effects regulation of activities, and the provision of information. Policy 2.6.3 – Coastal development To avoid or mitigate the adverse effects of erosion and flooding in the coastal environment. Policy 6.3A.6 - Hazards To ensure that development is avoided, or limited in scale or density in areas subject to natural and other hazards, particularly flooding, erosion, or potential sea level rise, unless these hazards can be adequately remedied or mitigated. Policy 10.1.1 – Inundation, flooding and sea level rise To avoid any increased risk of adverse effects on property and the wellbeing and safety of the hazards by avoiding subdivision, or subjecting it to appropriate mitigation measures, where: (a) the subdivision is within an area subject to moderate to high risk from inundation, flooding in ponding areas or the Cashmere Stream floodplain, or Rule 2.0 - Guide to using these rules Operative provisions to be retained for coastal hazards only:
Volume 2: The statement of objectives, policies and issues
Section 2: Natural environment
(b) would result in an increased risk of damage from natural hazards elsewhere
(c) would adversely affect the functioning of existing flood protection works.Section 6: Urban growth
Section 10: Subdivision and development
(b) the subdivision would result in an increased risk of inundation or flooding elsewhere.Volume 3 - The statement of rules
Part 1: Definitions
Part 2: Living zones
Part 5: Conservation zones
Part 9: General rules
Part 14: Subdivision
Planning maps
Chapter 31: Subdivision
Chapter 38: Natural hazards
Part VII: Definitions
The rules applying to plantation forestry activities are now largely those included in the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry) Regulations 2017(external link).
Plantation forestry must comply with those regulations.
Where there is conflict or duplication between a rule in the Christchurch District Plan and those regulations, the regulations prevail. The Council is in the process of addressing areas of conflict or duplication in the plan to make it clear which provisions in the plan relating to plantation forestry continue to apply.