Plan Change 8 - Natural Hazards
These changes aim to improve how we manage natural hazard risks throughout the district through the Rotorua District Plan, including in the Lakes A Zone, from flooding, active fault rupture, land stability (slope stability, liquefaction and soft soils), geothermal hazards and wildfire.
Hearing timetable now available
Hearing Timetable 4-5 May 2026 (PDF, 18 Kb)
Note that submitters are asked to attend from the beginning of their allocated session time and submitters may not be called in the order listed. Note also that this timetable is subject to change, so we suggest you check the timetable regularly throughout the hearing. We will also inform submitters personally of any change in session times that relate to their presentations.
Comprehensive directions from the Hearings Panel with instructions for the hearing, reports from Council's planning team to the Hearings Panel, and pre-circulated evidence and position statements from submitters are also available below. Material received during the hearing will also be added after it is received.
Legal Submissions by Bay of Plenty Regional Council (PDF, 804 Kb)
Legal Submissions by Rotorua Lakes Council (PDF, 450 Kb)
The following statements of evidence and submitter position statements have been received prior to the hearing:
- Rotorua Lakes Council Water Services Department (PDF, 220 Kb)
- Kainga Ora (Lezel Beneke) - Corporate Evidence - (PDF, 177 Kb).
- BOPRC (Mark Ivamy) - Planning Evidence (PDF, 300 Kb).
- BOPRC (Nicole Marshall) - Planning Evidence (PDF, 300 Kb).
- BOPRC (Anna McKay) - Engineering Evidence (PDF, 210 Kb)
- Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Alec Duncan) - Planning Evidence (PDF, 12 Mb).
- Fonterra (Graeme Mathieson) - Submitter Position Statement (PDF, 140 Kb).
- Waikato Regional Council (Lisette Balsom) - Submitter Position Statement (PDF, 350 Mb).
Addendum 1 to the Section 42A Report - Earthwork Standards - (PDF, 300 Kb)
Section 42A Report (includes Appendix 1 to 3) - (PDF, 2.8Mb) .
Appendix 4, Section 42A Report - Recommended Changes to the District Plan Text - (PDF, 245 Kb)
Appendix 5a, Section 42A Report - List of Submitters and Submitter ID - (PDF, 395 Kb).
Appendix 5, Section 42A Report - Recommended Decisions on Submissions - (PDF, 1.2 Mb).
Statement of Evidence Peter Cochrane (Flood Hazard - Lakes) - (PDF, 380 Kb).
Statement of Evidence Simon Aiken (Flood Hazard) - (PDF, 1 Mb).
Statement of Evidence Kelvin Berryman (Fault Rupture Hazard) - (PDF, 480 Kb).
Statement of Evidence of John Brzeski (Geothermal and Land Stability Hazards) - (PDF, 370 Kb).
View summaries and full copies of submissions
📄 Summarised submissions and further submissions
📝 Full submissions and further submissions
📢 Submission form (closed)
Why it matters
Address search and active faults (with partial flood mapping)
This viewer only contains mapping of active faults and recent flood mapping that is not yet available on Geyserview. You can view a district wide map with other flood and hazard mapping on Geyserview, Council's main map system.
Geyserview - a map of the Rotorua District - (rotorualc.spatial.t1cloud.com)
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