Planning and Regulatory Committee Minutes - 5 April 2018
Minutes of a meeting of the Planning and Regulatory Committee
Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
On Thursday 5 April 2018, commencing at 9.01am
Present: Councillor B McGurk (Presiding Co-Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor R Reese (Co-Chairperson), Councillors L Acland, I Barker, B Dahlberg, K Fulton, S Walker and Ms G Paine
In Attendance: Chief Executive (P Dougherty, Group Manager Environmental Management (C Barton), Group Manager Community Services (C Ward), Governance Adviser (E Stephenson) and Youth Councillors E Grant and R Fell
Apologies : Her Worship the Mayor for lateness
1. Apologies
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Resolved PR/2018/018 That the Planning and Regulatory Committee Receives and accepts the apology from Her Worship the Mayor for lateness. |
2. Confirmation of Order of Business
There was no change to the order of business.
There were no updates to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared.
There was no public forum.
5.1 22 February 2018
Document number M3291, agenda pages 7 - 15 refer.
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Resolved PR/2018/019 That the Planning and Regulatory Committee Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Planning and Regulatory Committee, held on 22 February 2018, as a true and correct record. |
6. Status Report - Planning and Regulatory Committee - 5 April 2018
Document number R9169, agenda pages 16 - 18 refer.
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Resolved PR/2018/020 That the Planning and Regulatory Committee Receives the report Status Report - Planning and Regulatory Committee - 5 April 2018 (R9169) and its attachment (A1736802).
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There was no Chairperson’s Report.
8. National Policy Statement - Urban Development Capacity Quarterly Monitoring Report
Document number R8924, agenda pages 19 - 40 refer.
Strategy and Environment Senior Analyst, Chris Pawson and Team Leader City Development, Lisa Gibellini provided a PowerPoint presentation and answered questions regarding the price of rural and urban land, pressure on urban boundaries, geographical constraints, intensified urban living, clarification of land parcels, the MBIE ratio of 1.5 land cost to final cost, SHAs and the number of building consents, demand on social housing, the flow through effect on rental properties and the impact on holiday rentals.
Attendance: Her Worship the Mayor entered the meeting at 9.44a.m.
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Resolved PR/2018/021 That the Planning and Regulatory Committee: Receives the report National Policy Statement - Urban Development Capacity Quarterly Monitoring Report (R8924) and its attachment A1927466; and Agrees to the report being circulated to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and placed on Council’s website. |
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1 A1939890 UDC Monitoring Report Summary PowerPoint presentation |
9. Draft Water Quality Primary Contact Targets
Document number R8846, agenda pages 41 - 48 refer.
Manager Environment, Matt Heale and Water Quality Scientist Doctor Paul Fisher tabled supplementary information, spoke to the report and they and the Group Manager Environmental Management answered questions regarding engagement with stakeholders, national figures for comparison, whether targets were realistic and achievable, pressure on smaller streams, the effect of stormwater events on figures, adequate future funding
Attendance: Councillor Dahlberg left the meeting at 9.53a.m. and returned at 9.55a.m.
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Resolved PR/2018/022 That the Planning and Regulatory Committee: Receives the report Draft Water Quality Primary Contact Targets (R8846) and its attachments (A1924208 and A1923665); and Notes the draft water quality primary contact targets of 100% for E-coli in Nelson’s fourth order rivers; and Authorises officers to consult on water quality targets as part of stakeholder engagement on the Nelson Plan; and Requests that a report is brought back to the Planning and Regulatory Committee to finalise water quality targets so that the public and Minister for the Environment can be advised by 31 December 2018 in accordance with National Policy Statement Freshwater Management requirements. |
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1 A1946737 - Regional information for setting draft targets for swimmable lakes and rivers |
10. Changes to the Nelson Resource Management Plan to Give Effect to the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry
Document number R9128, agenda pages 49 - 65 refer.
Manager Environment, Matt Heale introduced Planning Adviser Jacqui Jones, spoke to the report and answered questions regarding recent events, changes in forestry practices and maintaining standards across the industry.
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Resolved PR/2018/023 That the Planning and Regulatory Committee: Receives the report Changes to the Nelson Resource Management Plan to Give Effect to the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry (R9128) and its attachments (A1929734 and A1923819); and Requests officers to consider whether changes should be made to the Nelson Plan forestry provisions as part of the Nelson Plan review. |
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Recommendation to Council PR/2018/024 That the Council Approves that changes be made to the Nelson Resource Management Plan in accordance with A1923819 of Report R9128 in order to implement the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry.
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Resolved PR/2018/025 That the Planning and Regulatory Committee Excludes the public from the following parts of the proceedings of this meeting. The general subject of each matter to be considered while the public is excluded, the reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter and the specific grounds under section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 for the passing of this resolution are as follows: |
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General subject of each matter to be considered |
Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter |
Particular interests protected (where applicable) |
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Status Report - Planning and Regulatory Committee Public Excluded - 5 April 2018
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Section 48(1)(a) The public conduct of this matter would be likely to result in disclosure of information for which good reason exists under section 7 |
The withholding of the information is necessary: · Section 7(2)(a) To protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of a deceased person |
The meeting went into public excluded session at 10.08a.m. and resumed in public session at 10.12a.m.
Please note that as the only business transacted in public excluded was to receive the status report, this business has been recorded in the public minutes. In accordance with the Local Government Official Information Meetings Act 1987, no reason for withholding this information from the public exists.
12. Status Report - Planning and Regulatory Committee Public Excluded - 5 April 2018
Document number R9170, agenda pages 3 - 4 refer.
Group Manager Environmental Management, Clare Barton, spoke to the report.
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Resolved PR/2018/026 That the Planning and Regulatory Committee Receives the report Status Report - Planning and Regulatory Committee Public Excluded - 5 April 2018 (R9170) and its attachment (A1863070). |
13. Re-admittance of the Public
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Resolved PR/2018/027 That the Planning and Regulatory Committee Re-admits the public to the meeting. |
There being no further business the meeting ended at 10.12a.m.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:
Chairperson
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