District Plan Overview

The Council is required to prepare a district plan under the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA). The district plan is the primary document managing land uses and development within the Napier City boundaries.The district plan is to assist in promoting the sustainable management of the City's natural and physical resources. It is an important document for every resident of Napier. It manages the environment within the City boundary and impacts on everyday matters such as the noise levels we encounter, and the height of buildings around us. The Proposed City of Napier District Plan was released for public submissions on 11 November 2000. The 287 submissions received covered a wide range of issues. Hearing of submissions commenced in February 2002 and have been completed on all topics.

The Council declared the Proposed City of Napier District Plan operative on the 1st of October 2007 with the exception of the following provisions:

Residential Environments

• Chapter 6: Napier Hill Character Zone.

Industrial Environments

• Chapter 22: Issues, Objectives, Policies Methods & Anticipated Environmental Results.
• Chapter 23: Main Industrial Zone.
• Chapter 28: Port Industrial Zone.
• Chapter 32: Reasons for Industrial Rules.

Definitions

• Chapter 68: Definition of "Port Noise" only.

Volume 3 Maps

• Those parts of the Planning Maps which contain the Main Industrial Zone (Chapter 23), Port Industrial Zone (Chapter 28) and the Napier Hill Character Zone (Chapter 6).

Appendices

• 33A-D: Port Noise.

On the 1st June 2009 the Council declared the following chapters of the Proposed City of Napier District Plan Operative:

• Residential Environments
  Chapter 6: Napier Hill Character Zone
• Industrial Environments
  Chapter 28: Port Industrial Zone
• Definitions
  Chapter 68: Definition of "Port Noise"
• Appendices
  33A, 33B and 33C (Port Noise)
• Volume 3 Planning Maps
  Those parts of the Planning Maps which contain the Port Industrial Zone (Chapter 28) and the Napier Hill Character Zone (Chapter 6)

• Napier District Plan (October 2007)
• Napier District Plan - Ahuriri Subdistrict (April 2001)