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Whareroa North Plan Change

Decision on Plan Change 36 to the Taupō District Plan

The decision on Plan Change 36 has now been notified. You can find the public notice, decision and the new plan change text below. Alternatively you can view the plan change within the Eplan (sections 3a, 4a and Appendix 8 – additions underlined and deletions struck-through).

Any person who made a submission on Plan Change 36 – Whareroa North may appeal the Commissioners decision on their submission to the Environment Court. In accordance with Clause 14 of the First Schedule of the Resource Management Act 1991, appeals must be in the prescribed form and lodged with the Environment Court within 30 working days of serving the notification of the decision.

2 July 2020: Whareroa private plan change decision reached
A panel of independent commissioners has approved the rezoning of land in Whareroa North from Rural to Residential, as part of a private plan change application by The Proprietors of Hauhungaroa No 6.
Read the full media release

Proposed Plan Change 36 to the Taupō District Plan - Request to rezone Rural Land to Residential at Whareroa North

What is a request for a private plan change?

The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) allows anyone to apply for changes to district or regional plans through a request for a private plan change. Part II of the First Schedule of the RMA sets out procedural matters for local authorities to follow in dealing with requests for plan changes.

Taupō District Council has accepted a request from The Proprietors of Hauhungaroa No 6 for Plan Change 36 which means that the plan change remains a private plan change with Council administering the process of notifying the plan change application.

The Plan Change request seeks to:

Rezone a 14.63ha area north of Whareroa Stream adjoining the existing Whareroa settlement. The area is zoned under the Operative Taupō District Plan as Rural Environment. The applicant is seeking a Residential Environment zone to enable a maximum of 160 dwellings with densities ranging between 500m2 to 1,100m2.

Map showing location affected by Plan Change 36

Map showing location affected by Plan Change 36.

Hearing

The Hearing for Plan Change 36 took place on June 17 and 18, 2020.

Procedural minutes from the Hearings Panel can be found in the documents below:

Enquiries about this plan change can be directed to Hilary Samuel, phone (07) 376 1591 or email hsamuel@taupo.govt.nz.

Submissions

Further submissions closed on 20 March 2020. Thank you for the submissions received.

Copies of submissions received are available on request to info@taupo.govt.nz.

Further Documentation

Plan change documents

Planning

Landscape

Ecology

Geotechnical

Economics

Infrastructure, roading and bridge

Stormwater

Trustee

Trust administrator

Archaeology

The s42A report (known as the planner’s report) is required under the RMA and provides an analysis of the information provided by the applicant and any submissions.

Whareroa North PPC36 Economic Cost Benefit Assessment – Property Economics (PDF, 4.5MB)

Appendix 2: Cheal Consultants Preliminary Stormwater Assessment report (DOCUMENT LATER REPLACED 21 OCTOBER 2019 - see section below)
Appendix 3: Updated Whareroa North Concept Plan (DOCUMENT REPLACED 21 OCTOBER 2019 - see section below)

Attachment 3: Revised Whareroa North Concept Plan (DOCUMENT REPLACED 21 OCTOBER 2019 - see section below)
Attachment 4: Cheal Consultants memo on stormwater matters (LATER REPLACED BY REPORT OCTOBER 2019 - see section below)

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