Planning

District Plan

The Council is required to prepare a District Plan under the Resource Management Act 1991.  This is in keeping with Council's City Vision 'Upper Hutt City - A Great Place to Live' and the community outcomes identified in the LTCCP (upperhuttcity@2016).

The District Plan is the primary document that manages land use and development within Upper Hutt.  It contains rules that may affect you if you are preparing a land use proposal or development.

View our District Plan 2004

The Plan is made up of five main parts, as follows:

Part 1 - Introduction

Provides an explanation on how the Plan is set out and how to use it.  It also contains information on how the Plan is administered, the provisions that apply to the processing of resource consents, the designation of land, monitoring and review of the Plan.

Part 2 - Issues, Objectives, Policies and Methods

The Plan applied zoning areas in which the different environmental qualities sought for the different areas within the City are defined.  This part of the plan sets out the different zones of the city and the management framework to control the actual and potential adverse effects of activities on the environment.

Chapters 4 - 8 of the District Plan deal specifically with the Residential, Rural, Business, Open Space and Special Activities zones.

Part 3 - Rules and Standards

Specifies the rules and standards for each zone and those which are city wide.  Chapters 18 to 22 provide the rules and standards for activities within the Residential, Rural Business, Open Space and Special Activities zones.

Chapters 23 to 34 provide the general and city wide rules and standards.

Part 4 - Appendices

Provides the definitions of a number of terms and words used in the Plan, the list of designations which appear on the Planning Maps, the list of roads and streets in Upper Hutt and their status in the roading hierarchy, and provides detailed design standards and criteria for the operation on an access rule in Chapters 18 to 22.

Part 5 - Planning Maps

Provides the zoning for each property within the city.  They also identify designations, heritage features, faults, notable trees, protected ridgelines, rivers/streams and flood hazard areas.

Review of the District Plan

The Council periodically reviews and updates the District Plan.  These may be initiated by council or in response to private requests to change the District Plan.  Any Plan change has to follow a defined process.  This includes public notification and the opportunity for the public to make submissions on the proposed plan change.

The Council is also required to undertake a comprehensive review of the District Plan every 10 years.  The next review will be 2014.

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