protecting the region’s biodiversity assets and our crucial agriculture production. One of the key changes included in the Proposed Plan was the inclusion of new ‘good neighbour rules’ which bind the Crown and private land occupiers. A total of 10 submissions were received. Council staff will be working through these with submitters over the coming months with a view to holding a Council hearing before a revised plan is adopted in the new financial year.
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annual plans. The plans, strategies and policies include the regional policy statement, four regional plans (air, fresh water, soil and coastal), two biosecurity strategies (pest plants and pest animals), the biodiversity operational strategy, the oil spill response plan, the regional land transport plan, the regional public transport plan, the civil defence emergency management group plan and a number of asset management plans (river and flood control schemes and regional gardens). The
before a revised plan is adopted in the new page 4 2016/2017 Annual Report financial year. Also released at the same time was a draft Biosecurity Strategy for Taranaki which is a non- statutory document that sets out the Council’s various programmes and activities relating to pest management including its non-regulatory activities. There were no extensions of the self-help possum control programme during the year as Council staff
State of the environment monitoring - $343,200 over budget due to additional work required reviewing programmes to meet the new National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management. Resource investigations and projects - $154,340 under budget due to expenditure forecast for later in the year and a focus on state of the environment monitoring. Sustainable land management plans and plant supply programme - $143,702 over budget as the programme continues to be accelerated. Executive,
$5.4M $263.4K under budget Against a YTD budget of 1.1M and a full year budget of 16.0M. Against a YTD budget of 5.6M and a full year budget of 26.2M. Operating Expenditure by Activity Resource management planning Consent processing and administration Compliance monitoring programmes Pollution incidence and response State of the environment monitoring Resource investigations and projects Executive, Audit & Risk
Management Programme is now moving into its final phase. Farmers on the ring plain and further afield have voluntarily protected thousands of kilometres of streams with fences and millions of native plants. Regulations will be developed, primarily to bring a remaining few land owners into the programme. Revision of the Council’s Fresh Water Plan continues to involve ongoing effort on a number of fronts and remains a work-in-progress. Meanwhile, we continue to get very good results
page Four stages of regional recovery planning STAGE 4 • Implementation, investment and management of planned recovery initiatives. • Measure impact of each initiative against agreed benchmarks. • Review and report to regional partners, Government and private sector investors. STAGE 2 April – July 2020 • Undertake wider regional impact assessment. • Work with Iwi, Councils and Venture Taranaki to finalise recovery plan priorities. • Align with and
provided landowners with riparian management plans more than 5.1 million native plants, and a total of 85.7% of their streams were fenced and 71.7% were protected by vegetation. This represents a massive commitment by the farming community. Soil conservation efforts in the eastern hill country, too, have a direct bearing on freshwater quality as well as reducing the risk and severity of flooding as a result of severe weather. The Council has worked