prone land to minimise soil losses through appropriate measures and practices. Implementing this principle may mean that Class 8 land is not actively farmed for arable, pastoral or commercial forestry uses as this land is generally unsuitable for these activities as described in the Land Use Capability Handbook. GMP 14: Select appropriate paddocks for intensive grazing, recognising and mitigating possible nutrient and sediment loss from critical source areas. Implementation guidance
Where possible,
Policy and Planning Agenda July 2023
surface water in the Hangatahua (Stony) River catchment
Activity Rule Standards/Terms/Conditions Classification Notification Control/Discretion Policy
Reference
Damming of water
Note: This rule prevails over
any requirements for plantation
forestry activities under the
NES-PF.
4 Prohibited
Diversion of water which is
not otherwise provided for
in Rules 12 and 13
Note: This rule prevails over
any requirements for plantation
forestry activities under the
NES-PF.
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Native forestry establishment
Reverting land
Exotic forestry establishment
Fencing for land use change
Soil conservation planting
On-farm pole nursery start-up
Riparian planting
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support
funding
disadvantages prior to making a decision on this matter.
Background
3. The Government undertook multiple consultations simultaneously on the New Zealand
Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS). The first relates to the overall form of the NZ ETS.
The second is specifically on the permanent forestry category within the NZ ETS. Both of
these consultations closed on 11 August 2023. The Emissions Trading Scheme Consultation
Memorandum (#3185762) presented to the Policy & Planning Committee (the
Compliance Monitoring Non-Compliances and Enforcement summary - 30 March
to 3 May 2023
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8. Upcoming Freshwater Requirements for Farmers 78
9. National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry 84
10. Agenda Authorisation 89
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National direction for plantation and exotic carbon afforestation (the
Discussion Document).
2. The deadline for submissions precluded the submission being presented to this meeting,
but a draft submission was circulated for Councillor feedback ahead of submitting. A
copy of the submission is attached to this agenda item.
Executive summary
3. The National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF) was published on 3
August 2017 and came into force on 1 May 2018. The
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Application for Resource Consents
for Forestry Activities
Pursuant to section 88 of the Resource Management Act 1991 and
the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry) Regulations 2017
This form must be completed and lodged with accompanying documentation prepared for the purpose of
lodging resource consent applications under the Resource Management
technical advice to other departments and external
stakeholders on matters which the officer has detailed knowledge of
to ensure that appropriate considerations, checks and balances are
put in place to mitigate the environmental risk as a result of the
activity. This may be at an industry level such as dairy effluent
discharges, oil and gas sector, earthworks or forestry or at a site
specific level.
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Special
Requirements
• Must be able to undertake the physical
a bridge about every 4 kilometres. These
structures add considerably to road maintenance costs in the region.
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Forestry traffic in particular is causing significant damage to local roading infrastructure in parts of each of
the three districts in Taranaki, and the budgets to maintain these simply cannot cope. Ways to address the