Natural Character and the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement 2010 Marlborough workshop - summary of discussion and outcomes
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October 2012Download the publication
Summary
The focus of this workshop was to review a recent local government natural character assessment against the natural character policies of the NZCPS 2010, as a case study for a small group of natural character and planning practitioners to assess in detail so that useful advice can be provided to councils on implementing the NZCPS 2010 and, particularly, policies 13, 14 and 15.
A range of practitioners with good knowledge of Marlborough, from local and central government and private practice, were invited to attend.
The workshop also sought to look at other examples of different methodologies applied at a similar scale.
It was acknowledged that the review of MDC's work may not be able to be fully implemented in Marlborough because of time and cost constraints (depending on the scale of changes that any review might recommend). However, the conclusions could still be useful for other regional and district councils, especially those at the early stages of undertaking assessments.
The content of this report includes:
- Attendees
- Report purpose
- Background
- Workshop purpose
- Introduction to Marlborough's natural character
- Overview of the Marlborough assessment
- Assessment methods including definition, attributes, scale, ranking and describing outstanding natural character
- Overview comments on the MDC study
- Other assessment methodologies
- Defining the coastal environment
- Agreements
- Follow-up actions
- Components of natural character
- Follow-up actions
- Assessing and evaluating experiential attributes
- Outstanding natural character
- Follow-up actions
- Mapping
- Follow-up actions
- Looking forward—points of agreement
- Coastal environment identification and mapping
- Natural character components
- Natural character mapping
- Broader conclusions about the workshop process
- Closing round from participants
- References
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