Plan Change 50 - Irongate Industrial Zone

Plan Change 50 is operative from 30 May 2011.

• Notice of operative plan change (PDF 7kB)

In accordance with Clause 5 of Schedule 1, and Sections 95A, 168 and 168(A) of the Resource Management Act 1991, the Hastings District Council has prepared a Proposed Plan Change to the Hastings District Plan and an associated Notice of Requirement.

Proposed Plan Change 50 primarily seeks to rezone some 78.4 hectares of Plains zone land to Deferred Industrial 2 Zone (Irongate) in and around the Irongate Road and Maraekakaho Road junction.

New standards are also introduced which facilitate development of dry industries in the Irongate Industrial Area, and a structure plan to stage development. The Notice of requirement includes an infrastructure corridor, road widening and roundabout to support and enable the Proposed Plan Change to function.

Plan Change 50 introduces changes to the following sections of the Operative Hastings District Plan.

• Section 13.7 Advertising and Signs District Wide Activity
• Section 14.1 Traffic Sightlines, Parking, Access and Loading
• Section 14.2 Noise
• Section 15.1 Subdivision and Land Development
• Planning Maps 53A, 54A, 62A and the Planning Maps legend

View the plan change

Details of the Plan Change and Notice of Requirement can be viewed at:

• Resource Management, 2nd Floor, Central Council Administration Office, Lyndon Road East, Hastings
• Hastings, Flaxmere and Havelock North Libraries
• Electronically below

Decisions on Submissions

In accordance with the requirements of Clause 10 of Schedule 1 of the Resource Management Act 1991, notice is given that proposed Plan Change 4950 is deemed to have been amended in accordance with the decisions on submissions from the date of this notice.

• Final Decision (PDF 208kB)
• Final summary of changes to the District Plan (PDF 388kB)
• Amended District Plan Map 53a (PDF 162kB)
• Amended Structure Plan (PDF 3.2MB)
• Notice of Requirement (PDF 43kB)
• Final Designation Plan (PDF 869kB)

Supporting documents

• Public Notice for further submissions (PDF 16kB)
• Further submission form 6 (PDF 29kB)
• Summary of Submissions (PDF 52kB)
• Submissions in Full (PDF 6.5MB)

Plan Change 50:

• Proposed Amendments to section 10.0 Industrial Zones (PDF 468kB)
• Proposed Amendments to sections 13.7, 14.1, 14.2, and 15.1 (PDF 89kB)
• Proposed Deferred I2 (Irongate Industrial Area) Zone (PDF 156kB)
• Appendix 15.1-7 Structure plan (Irongate Industrial Area) (PDF 208kB)
• Proposed Planning Maps and Planning Maps Legend (PDF 1.2MB)
• Section 32 Evaluation of alternatives report (PDF 422kB)

• Notice of requirement for designation (PDF 424kB)
• Water Services assessment (PDF 5MB)
• Stormwater Options Assessment (PDF 7.9MB)
• Landscape and Visual impact Assessment (PDF 7.7MB)
• Ecological assessment – Assessment of effects on Irongate Stream (PDF 5.8MB)
• Ecological assessment – Stream Ecological Valuation Assessment (PDF 5.1MB)
• Archaeological assessment (PDF 7MB)
• Preliminary geotechnical assessment (PDF 15.5MB)
• Soil Quality and Impact Assessment (PDF 7.6MB)
• Demand and Viability Assessments – Industrial Demand study (PDF 249kB)
• Demand and Viability Assessments – Irongate industrial plan change financial viability (PDF 1.47MB)
• Demand and Viability Assessments – Proposed Industrial Re-Zoning (PDF 4.53MB)
• Industrial Site Selection Report (PDF 6MB)
• Traffic Impact assessments (PDF 23MB)