District Plan

Introduction

The District Plan explains how Council will manage development within the District. It sets out the activities you can do as of right, what activities you need a Resource Consent for and how certain activities may be carried out. The District Plan covers things like:

Construction or extending a building.
Subdividing land.
Putting up a sign.
Changing the use of a building.
Noise.

The current version of the District Plan became fully operative on 24 December 2014.

Policies and Rules

The table below shows the Policies and Rules of the District Plan.

The Rules are used to determine whether an activity, (eg, building or extending a house or rural shed) requires Resource Consent or is a Permitted Activity (no Resource Consent required).

To establish if an activity is Permitted you need to check both:

The relevant Zone Rules (eg, the Residential or Rural Zone Rules) Check the District Plan Maps if you are unsure what zone you are located within.
The ActivityRules where relevant (see table below).

Prefix	Section	Policy	Rules
Introduction
DP	District Plan Overview		View
DI	District Wide Introduction		View
TW	Tangata Whenua of the Ruapehu District		View
DE	Definitions		View
IR	information Requirements		View
NG	Notification Guidance		View
Policies and Rules
AR	Active Reserve Zone	View	View
CA	Heritage Conservation Area	View	View
CM	Commercial Zone	View	View
DR	District Wide	View	View
EG	Energy	View	View
FC	Financial Contributions	View	View
HE	Heritage	View	View
HS	Hazardous Substances	View	View
IF	Infrastructure	View	View
IN	Industrial Zone	View	View
IV	Indigenous Vegetation and Habitats of Indigenous Fauna	View	View
ML	Tangata Whenua Values and Maori Land	View	View
NH	Natural Hazards	View	View
NL	Outstanding Natural Features and Landscapes	View	View
NU	Network Utilities	View	View
PA	Protected Areas Zone	View	View
RB	Relocated Buildings	View	View
RE	Residential Zone	View	View
RP	Riparian Management and Public Access	View	View
RU	Rural Zone	View	View
SA	Special Activities	View	View
SG	Signage	View	View
SU	Subdivision	View	View
SW	Surface of Water	View	View
TI	Transport, Infrastructure and Car Parking	View	View
US	Urban Settlement Zone	View	View
Appendices
1	Designations		View
2	Transport Diagrams		View
3	Hazardous Substances		View
4	Schedule of Heritage Buildings and Sites		View
5	Schedule of Heritage Conservation Areas		View
6	Schedule of Heritage Trees		View
7	Taumarunui Airfield		View
8	Maintenance of an Historice Site and Areas of Significance to Maori		View
9	National Park Alpine Design Features		View
10	National Park Viewshaft		View
11	Kowhai Structure Plan		View
12	Relocated Building Pre-Inspection Report Template		View
13	Relocated Buildings - Bond		View

Heritage Trees within the District

Fraser Rhind Ltd - Report - Part 1 and Part 2

District Plan Maps

Not all of the Ruapehu District is the same. Some activities are better suited to certain areas. To address these differences, Council has divided the District and, in some cases the towns, into Zones (eg, Residential, Industrial, Rural, etc).

The District Plan Maps enable you to establish the zoning of a site and any specific features (eg, Heritage Buildings or Outstanding Landscapes).

Other Regulations

There is a variety of other Regulations that need to be considered with certain applications. Information is provided on some of the more common Regulations that may need to be considered when you are undertaking a development (eg, National Environmental Standards (NES), the Regional Plan, Building Consent and Environmental Health).

Please contact our Environmental Planners if you would like to purchase a copy of the District Plan or require further information.