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 Report and Council Expert Evidence now available
Council planners have now completed their report to the Hearings Panel recommending decisions on submissions (the "Section 42A Report"). This report and the associated expert evidence are available below.
Comprehensive directions setting out the timetable leading up to the hearing and instructions for the hearing have now been received from the Hearings Panel and are also available below.
Council Planners' Pre-Hearing Report (Section 42A Report) and Evidence
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).
Directions from the Hearings Panel
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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