AGENDA
Ordinary meeting of the
Nelson City Council
Tuesday 14/15/16 May 2019
Commencing at 9.00a.m. – Hearing of Submissions
to the Draft Annual Plan 2019/20, including Community Housing and the Potential
Sale of Land for Commercial Development Wakatu Square
Council Chamber
Civic House
110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Pat
Dougherty
Chief
Executive
Membership: Her Worship the Mayor Rachel Reese
(Chairperson), Councillors Luke Acland, Ian Barker, Mel Courtney, Bill
Dahlberg, Kate Fulton, Matt Lawrey, Paul Matheson, Brian McGurk, Gaile Noonan,
Mike Rutledge, Tim Skinner and Stuart Walker
Quorum: 7
Nelson
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Values
The Mayor and
councillors held a strategic planning day on 30 November 2016 with a programme
that covered key challenges and opportunities for the triennium, the values
Council wished to work by, and objectives for what needed to be achieved during
this term of Council.
Following are
the values agreed during the planning day:
i)
Whakautetanga: valuing each other, showing respect
ii) Kōrero
Pono: honesty, integrity, trust, fidelity
iii) Māiatanga:
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compassion, empathy, humility, servant leadership
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stewardship
vii) Manaakitanga:
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Item 5: Hearing of
Submissions to the Draft Annual Plan 2019/20, including Community Housing and
Potential Sale of Land for Commercial Development Wakatu Square
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Council
14 May 2019
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REPORT R10201
Hearing
of Submissions to the Draft Annual Plan 2019/20, including Community Housing
and Potential Sale of Land for Commercial Development Wakatu Square
1.1 Index and Copies
of Submissions
Council consulted concurrently
on the Draft Annual Plan 2019/20, including Community Housing and on the
potential sale of land for commercial development Wakatu Square. Hearing of
submissions will also be held concurrently.
· Draft Annual Plan
2019/20 index and submissions - Document No A2185551
· Community Housing
index and submissions – Document No A2185575
· Wakatu Square
index and submissions - Document No A2185734
1.2 Hearing Schedule
Speakers are still being
scheduled, therefore a hearing schedule will be distributed under separate
cover.
Author: Elaine
Stephenson, Governance Adviser
Attachments
Attachment 1: A2185551
Draft Annual Plan 2019/20 index and submissions ⇩
Attachment
2: A2185575 Community Housing index and submissions ⇩
Attachment
3: A2185734 Wakatu Square index and submissions ⇩
Outline
for Recreation Management Plan funding for Ngati Koata
Submission to the 2019-20 Annual Plan
Request:
Ngati Koata (NK)
request $30,000 to develop a Recreation Management Plan which
will allow for sustainable
management of activities requiring public access
rights to the Hira forest.
It is intended to reference similar plans as have been
developed for the Rotorua
forest areas.
Background:
The Hira Forest was previously part of Crown land
and is incorporated into the settlement assets for Ngati Koata. Ngati Koata and the Crown signed a Deed of Settlement
on 21
December 2012. Public
expectation is that access to
pre- existing activities would continue.
Length of track – the attached maps indicate
the scale of the existing and intended
tracks.
Current public use
– The Hira Forest has an
extensive range of Mountain Bike tracks
which have been developed using volunteer labour from Nelson Mountain Bike Club
and NCC cash grants/resources. A significant portion of these
tracks were constructed when the
land was owned by the Crown, managed
by Hancock Forest Management, and the public
has an expectation of
continued access (it is probable that
many people are actually unaware
that the land is
now privately owned). Other public users
of the
area are walkers, hunters,
and motor cross riders.
Forestry management – the Hira Forest is a working forest and is currently under
a Crown
Forest Lease to Tasman
Pine Limited (TPL). It
is governed by the Health and Safety Act – keeping
their workers and members of
the public safe during
forestry operations.
Issues:
·
Forestry operation – this is
a working forest with unpredictable requirements for safe access,
including large vehicles.
TPL also maintain the
road and are interested about the impact of new biking tracks on
the road. Currently
TPL are assisting with access management,
however it is not
part of the forest operation
to
manage complex public access
on a 24/7 basis.
·
Health and Safety implications – all
employees of any commercial activity and the
public must always be kept safe from interactions with each
other. This means that commercial operators need to be
aware of the possibility
and location of other users in
the area.
·
NCC support and promote
Nelson as a destination for mountain biking and other recreational activities.
This leads to increasing demand and activity
on privately owned land. It
is also
noted that users have no understanding
as to
when they leave NCC
reserve land and move onto Ngati
Koata land.
Outline for Recreation Managment Plan funding for Ngati Koata
Submission._.docx Page 1 of 2
A2185551 Page
AP299A
Item 5: Hearing of Submissions to the Draft Annual Plan 2019/20,
including Community Housing and Potential Sale of Land for Commercial
Development Wakatu Square: Attachment 1
·
Commercial asset – Settlement Assets have been
provided as recompense for Ngati
Koata to earn a
return enabling them to provide programmes
and assistance to iwi. Koata
Limited operates some minor commercial
activities such as beekeeping and allows
some telecommunication access for
Spark and others at the summit
of
Fringe Hill. The
predominant commercial activity
is the lease of the land
to TPL.
·
Council’s
Long Term Plan
includes community outcomes that
value the region’s open space and promote enabling access to it
for
to recreation. NCC’s Parks and Reserves Asset Management
Plan seeks to encourage active recreation and takes a
wider view of the
region’s backcountry recreation network and (e.g.)
identifies trails in its
GIS
regardless of
underlying land ownership, and provides funding for recreational activities on private
land. Ngati Koata aspires to be supportive
of recreation activities continuing on its land, however does not
have the resources to provide a comprehensive programme of access
management and is not in the
business of providing recreational
activities currently.
·
NK are concerned
that TPL can have reasonable
and safe access to the land
they lease for a forest operation.
Process
While the Hira Forest land
is not
vested as Reserve, it
is proposed
to use the process outlined
in the
Reserves Act (1977)
to
guide the development of the plan
to ensure
wide public consultation is undertaken
to inform the plan.
Ngati Koata will manage the process by engaging a suitably qualified consultant to undertake the development of the plan, in
consultation with NCC staff.
Key Stakeholders:
Ngati Koata Trust and
Koata Limited Nelson
City Council
Tasman Pine Forests Ltd
(TPL) Nelson Mountain Bike
Club (NMBC) Nelson
Motor Cycle Club Department of Conservation Nelson
Tramping Club
Commercial operators – beekeepers, telecommunication operators, commercial
mountain bike guides/shuttles
Action Forest Management (AFM) – provide assistance with safe
access Hunting
Walking Access Commission Fire
and Emergency NZ
Outline for Recreation Managment Plan funding for Ngati Koata
Submission._.docx Page 2 of 2
A2185551 Page
AP299B
Item 5: Hearing of
Submissions to the Draft Annual Plan 2019/20, including Community Housing and
Potential Sale of Land for Commercial Development Wakatu Square: Attachment 2
Item 5: Hearing of
Submissions to the Draft Annual Plan 2019/20, including Community Housing and
Potential Sale of Land for Commercial Development Wakatu Square: Attachment 3
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