Status: Operative
The following operative plan change has been made to the Nelson Resource Management Plan (NRMP) and has been incorporated into the Plan.
The purpose of the proposed plan change was to update and incorporate better urban design approaches into the Nelson Resource Management Plan (NRMP), NCC's Engineering Standards (now called the Land Development Manual 2010) and into administration and policy processes.
Main Changes
- Adds a range of definitions to Chapter 2 - Meanings of Words
- Changes and additions to Chapter 3 - Administration, to update Council administration processes and relationships with external documents and includes changes to the Services Overlay description
- Inserts new urban design issues and explanations into Chapter 4 - Resource Management Issues
- Amends and inserts new objectives, polices, methods, environmental results and performance indicators in Chapter 5 District Wide Objectives and Policies for Land Transport, Urban Design and Subdivision and Development
- Amends the Residential Zone policies and rule tables for streetscape, front yards, subdivision, comprehensive housing, fences and services and landscape overlays
- Amends Appendix 6 Riparian and Coastal Margins to add additional values for esplanade reserves
- Amends Appendices 10 Parking and Loading, 11 Access Standards and 12 Tracking Curves to update content and align with the NCC Land Development Manual 2010
- Deletes Appendix 13 Engineering Standards in favour of using the new NCC Land Development Manual, referenced as an external document
- Amends Appendix 14 to compliment the amended Residential Subdivision Rules and the NCC Land Development Manual, including the deletion of the roading table from the NRMP. A new roading table is located in the NCC Land Development Manual
- Amends Appendix 22 Comprehensive Housing to clarify the outcomes desired
- Externally reference throughout the Plan the NCC Land Development Manual 2010 as a means of compliance for controlled activity subdivisions, and as an assessment criterion for restricted discretionary and discretionary activity subdivisions
- Amends all references to Appendix 14 throughout the Plan to instead reference to the new roading tables in the NCC Land Development Manual 2010.
Minor Amendments
- Urban design objectives and policies
- Services Overlay policies and rules
- Streetscape Policy, front yards and fence rules
- Subdivision rule in the Landscape Overlay
- Roading Hierarchy
- Residential subdivision rule and Appendix 14
- Streetscape design guide to assist with interpretation of the front yard and front fence provisions.
Additional Information
The Commissioners recommended that a Streetscape Design Guide to assist with the interpretation of the front yard and front fence provisions be made available at the time of the release of the decision.
Draft Streetscape Design Guide - 22 June 2012
Building a Fence Guide - August 2013
Contact
For further information regarding this Plan Change, please contact Environmental Planning on 03 546 0200 or email.
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