A document outlining a council's plans for the management of land in its district or city.
the council wants communities to shape the District Plan that will control future rural development
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- Under the district plan, he was allowed to subdivide the land into separate lots.
- Both have Historic Places Trust listings; both are protected by their respective district plans.
- One of the important issues presented to the select committee was the district plan for the Tasman area.
- That was why trees on private property got on to the District Plan.
- Under the Resource Management Act, prosecution for district plan breaches must be filed within six months of an offence becoming known.
- A four-year work in progress became a reality for Napier on Wednesday with the city council adopting the bulk of its new district plan.
- Whatever the Environment Court decides, the decision will have ramifications for the district plan which will echo down the decades.
- It should be pointed out that any development in the Auckland Domain is also subject to extensive controls, according to the district plan.
- They are appealing the decision through the Environment Court, on the grounds that the hearings committee has gone against the council's district plan.
- The council's district plan would now have to be rewritten to enable mining.