Further Submissions Now Being Taken on Natural Character Variation to Our Proposed District Plan.

Further submissions to the Natural Character Variation to our Proposed District Plan are now being taken.

The further submission period is open for 10 working days (closing Friday 29 January 2016).

Last year the Natural Character provisions and overlay were withdrawn from our Proposed District Plan in response to the collective scope of submissions received on natural character. At the same time our Council resolved to initiate a variation to introduce natural character back into the Plan.

When consultation closed in December, we received 160 submissions totalling 667 individual submissions points.

Further submissions are a Resource Management Act (RMA) requirement and let people support or oppose a submission point that affects them and you have 10 working days from today to make a further submission.

All the information for the Variation is on our WEBSITE HERE and has been sent out to everyone that had made an original submission

To make a further submission, download the submission form from the WEBPAGE HERE, fill it out, post it, email it or bring it in to one of the Area Offices at Thames, Whangamata, Coromandel, Whitianga or Whangamata. For email, make the subject heading 'Variation 1 - Natural Character further submission'.

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