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BEFORE THE CHRISTCHURCH REPLACEMENT DISTRICT PLAN INDEPENDENT HEARINGS PANEL
IN THE MATTER of the Resource
Management Act 1991 and the Canterbury Earthquake (Christchurch Replacement District Plan) Order 2014
AND IN THE MATTER of the Introduction
Proposal (Part) and the Definitions Proposal (Part)
STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE OF IVAN THOMSON ON BEHALF OF CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL
CITY PLANNING TEAM LEADER
9 JUNE 2015
Barristers & Solicitors
D J Laing / K E Viskovic Telephone: +64-4-499 4599 Facsimile: +64-4-472 6986 Email: [email protected] DX SX11174 PO Box 2402 Wellington
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 1
2. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF EVIDENCE .................................................................. 2
3. APPENDICES ............................................................................................................ 4
4. KEY ISSUES .............................................................................................................. 5
5. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................... 6
6. EVIDENCE ON INTRODUCTION PROPOSAL ........................................................ 7
7. EVIDENCE ON DEFINITIONS PROPOSAL ............................................................. 8
8. CHANGES TO PROPOSED STRUCTURE OF THE DEFINITIONS PROPOSAL 27
9. CHANGES TO THE OPERATIVE CITY PLAN ....................................................... 32
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 My full name is Ivan Thomson and I hold the position of Team Leader, City
Planning at Christchurch City Council (the Council). My role in the
proposed Replacement District Plan (pRDP) has primarily been in the
realm of team leadership, although I was a member of an internal
Technical Advisory Group set up to provide guidance to Chapter Leaders
on the form and content of their chapters, including definitions.
1.2 I hold a Master's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning (M.Phil) from
Reading University in England. I have 32 years’ post graduate experience
in urban and regional planning and resource management. I am a Fellow
Member of the New Zealand Planning Institute.
1.3 I have worked for the Council since 1991, including 12 years' involvement
with preparation, hearings and appeals for the operative Christchurch City
Plan, four years leading an Area Plans programme, with the remainder of
my time there being in a leadership/management role.
1.4 I confirm that I have read the Code of Conduct for Expert Witnesses
contained in Part 7 of the Environment Court Practice Note 2014, and that I
agree to comply with it. I also confirm that I have considered all the material
facts that I am aware of that might alter or detract from the opinions that I
express, and that this evidence is within my area of expertise, except
where I state that I am relying on the evidence of another person.
1.5 At the outset I acknowledge, and am relying on, the background work done
by Ms Janine Sowerby, a Senior Policy Planner in my team. Ms Sowerby is
the Chapter Leader for and has managed the detail of the process for the
Definitions Chapter to date. In forming my opinions I am also relying on
evidence on definitions being presented on individual chapters by Council
witnesses.
1.6 I have relied on evidence from the following Council expert witnesses in
preparing this statement of evidence:
(a) Ms Janice Carter (Natural Hazards);
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(b) Mr Andrew Long (Subdivision and Earthworks);
(c) Mr David Falconer (Transport);
(d) Mr Mark Stevenson (Commercial, Industrial);
(e) Ms Debbie Hogan (Rural);
(f) Ms Caroline Rachlin (Natural and Cultural Heritage); and
(g) Ms Adele Radburnd (Quarries).
1.7 The key documents I have used, or referred to, in forming my view while
preparing this evidence are:
(a) The relevant parts of the Ministers' Comments on Stage 1;
(b) Preliminary Usability Assessment prepared by Environmental
Management Services Limited;1
(c) The Panel's decisions on Strategic Directions and Temporary
Activities;
(d) Guidance provided on the Quality Planning website's Good
Practices Guidelines for Definitions;
(e) The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) in particular sections
74 and 75;
(f) Chapter 6 of the Canterbury Regional Policy Statement (CRPS)
(g) Christchurch Central Recovery Plan (CCRP);
(h) Land Use Recovery Plan (LURP); and
(i) The Canterbury Earthquake (Christchurch Replacement District
Plan) Order 2014 (the Order), specifically the Statement of
Expectations in Schedule 4 of the Order.
1.8 For this hearing I am also presenting evidence on the definitions that are
related to the Residential Proposal.
2. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF EVIDENCE
2.1 The Definitions Proposal is a collation of the definitions required by the
substantive chapters in the pRDP. Identification of the need for a definition
and the wording of that definition are important because definitions directly
influence the administration of the pRDP, particularly through the
1 Environmental Services Limited: Proposed Replacement District Plan Preliminary Usability Assessment, 24 November 2015.
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interpretation of rules. The primary purpose of this is to assist the Panel’s
understanding of the methodology used to prepare the Definitions Proposal
and provide the context for considering the evidence that will follow on the
merits of the outstanding definitions specific to the substantive Proposals.
2.2 My evidence also makes recommendations on a number of definitions-
related submissions of a general nature that cannot be adequately
addressed in the other chapter-specific evidence.
Introduction Proposal
2.3 My evidence sets out changes considered necessary to the Introduction
Proposal in response to submissions relating to the Definitions Proposal,
and as a result of amendments made to other chapters of the pRDP
through the hearing process to date.
Definitions Proposal
2.4 In this statement, I provide an overview of Definitions Proposal, covering
the following matters:
(a) The purpose of the Definitions Proposal and how it differs from the
operative Christchurch City and Banks Peninsula District Plans.
(b) An explanation of the methodology used to develop it, and
reasons why defined words/phrases should only have their defined
meaning where it is appropriate to do so in the context (as
identified), rather wherever they feature throughout the pRDP.
(c) Identification of the outstanding definitions, comprising:
(i) those definitions which I consider the Panel no
longer needs to consider, as they have been the
subject of previous hearings and, in some cases,
decisions; and
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(ii) those definitions which have yet to be considered
by the Panel because they were outside the scope
of previous hearings to date and therefore remain
outstanding (Remaining definitions and Submitter
definitions). I have also briefly covered off those
Remaining definitions not submitted on but still
required as notified and the definitions that the
Council considers can be deleted in favour of the
plain English definition.
(d) Inconsistencies between the Council's position on some of the
definitions, due to their being used in more than one Stage 1
proposal (and included in the scope of more than one previous
hearing) or because they are proposed to be amended in Stages 2
or 3, and Submitter definitions.
2.5 The tables summarising the above categories of definitions are attached to
my evidence in Appendices 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8.
2.6 I have then addressed the specific relief of a general nature sought by
submitters that were not dealt with within the preceding topic or chapter-
specific hearings (the submissions specific to Remaining definitions and
Submitter definitions will be addressed by the relevant Council witnesses
listed above).
2.7 I have then considered the structure of the Definitions Proposal, more
specifically retention of the related definitions and the request by Mahaanui
Kurataiao Limited and Te Rūnanga O Ngāi Tahu (Ngāi Tahu) to relocate
Maori terminology into what they describe as a glossary.
2.8 The revised proposal is attached as Appendix 9.
3. APPENDICES
3.1 For ease of reference the Appendices attached to my evidence are as
follows:
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(a) Appendix 1 – sets out the methodology used to develop the
Definitions Proposal;
(b) Appendix 2 – Provides examples of issues relating to terms
always having their defined meaning;
(c) Appendix 3 – Provides a list of all the definitions in the Definitions
Proposal and where they have been considered in the pRDP
process;
(d) Appendix 4 – Lists the definitions being considered in this
hearing, which Council witness addresses the definition and
whether the definition is to be included in the pRDP;
(e) Appendix 5 – The Council's accept/reject table for the
submissions on the Definitions Proposal;
(f) Appendix 6 – Lists the Remaining Definitions that are still
required and those that can be deleted from the Definitions
Proposal;
(g) Appendix 7 – Sets out the Council's final wording of definitions
that have been considered inconsistently in previous pRDP
hearings;
(h) Appendix 8 – Identifies the Stage 1 definitions that are (or are
likely to be) subject to amendment in Stages 2 or 3; and
(i) Appendix 9 – Provides the Council's up to date version of the
Definitions Proposal.
4. KEY ISSUES
4.1 I have based my evidence around the Council's Statement of Issues
lodged with the Independent Hearings Panel on 13 May 2015. These
issues, broadly speaking, are to do with consistency and process.
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5. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
5.1 The Council has undertaken a full review of the definitions contained in the
current operative plans. It has done so having particular regard to Schedule
4 of the Order (Statement of Expectations) together with giving appropriate
attention to other statutory documents and guidance. This 'overview'
evidence covers mostly 'process' issues raised in the Statement of Issues,
and brings together in one place all the information needed to enable the
Panel to consider, and make decisions on, definitions to be covered in
subsequent evidence pertaining to definitions in individual proposals.
5.2 My conclusions are:
(a) The methodology used to formulate the Definitions Proposal has
been robust and as far as practicable, has produce a coherent,
comprehensive and integrated package of definitions.
(b) In order to contribute most effectively and efficiently to plan
administration, it would be preferable that, where a word/phrase is
intended to be defined in a specific context, it should be identified
accordingly via underlining/hyperlinking to avoid having definitions
apply unintentionally and incorrectly.
(c) In order to provide clarity and certainty, it would be preferable to
have a larger number of specific definitions rather than a smaller
number of more general definitions, appreciating that there is a
fine balance between the two.
(d) If the panel is concerned about the number of definitions, I believe
that a reduction can be achieved by placing a number of them into
a Glossary.
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6. EVIDENCE ON INTRODUCTION PROPOSAL
6.1 I confirm that there are no submissions on the 'definitions-related' parts of
the Introduction Chapter.
6.2 However, I consider the following amendments to the Introduction Proposal
are necessary in response to submissions on the Definitions Chapter (and
to reflect the current situation regarding staging of the pRDP):
(a) Throughout the chapter, amend all references to the Definitions
Chapter to the Abbreviations and Definitions Chapter.
(b) With respect to Section 3 Manawhenua, add the detailed
explanation of Maori terms as discussed in my evidence where I
have addressed Ngāi Tahu's submission.
(c) With respect to Section 10.1:
Amend the first substantive row of the table as follows:
Chapters Summary
Plan Overview Chapters 1 and 2 General introduction and abbreviations
and definitions
Amend the second paragraph under Plan Overview
Chapters as follows:
A chapter of abbreviations and definitions of
terms words and phrases used in the Plan is
included. Definitions are critical…
Under The Plan's chapters, amend the description of
Chapter 2 Definitions as follows:
Chapter 2 Abbreviations and Definitions
This chapter provides abbreviations and
definitions to explain the meaning of words and
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terms phrases as used in the District Plan.
Additional definitions will be included for the
Phase 2 and 3 Chapters.
7. EVIDENCE ON DEFINITIONS PROPOSAL
Purpose of the Definitions Proposal
7.1 The purpose of the Definitions Proposal is to enable the pRDP to achieve
the sustainable management of resources within Christchurch. I consider it
does that by:
(a) assisting plan users with interpretation of the provisions of the
pRDP by defining or explaining the meaning (and, in some cases,
the abbreviations) of words and phrases developed specifically for
and used in the pRDP;
(b) giving effect to and ensuring consistency with relevant legislation
and higher order documents; including Chapter 6 of the CRPS and
the CCRP and LURP; and
(c) addressing issues with the existing definitions in the operative
Christchurch City and Banks Peninsula District Plans identified by
users which have contributed to poor environmental outcomes.
7.2 I also consider the Definitions Proposal supports the recovery of the city
required by the Statement of Expectations, Schedule 4 of the Order. It
does this by making the pRDP more user-friendly, through:
(a) placing definitions at the beginning of the pRDP, and enabling
electronic access to them within the body of the pRDP, for ease of
use and to encourage understanding of the pRDP;
(b) reconciling and rationalising the extent of definitions (the operative
Christchurch City and Banks Peninsula District Plans have 209
and 119 definitions respectively), while recognising that there are
other drivers, such as earthquake-recovery-related provisions and
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the need for some similar or conflicting but location-specific
definitions to reflect local circumstances, which will increase the
overall number of definitions;
(c) addressing issues users have identified with the existing
definitions which have contributed to uncertain and inconsistent
interpretation. This has included correcting any errors, and
excluding any content of a regulatory nature more appropriately
located within a rule;
(d) ensuring, irrespective of the stage at which they were proposed,
consistency between definitions and their use and interpretation
throughout the pRDP;
(e) including reference to the other definitions on which each
definitions relies (reliant definitions), to assist their interpretation
and illustrate the interrelationship between some definitions; and
(f) directing users to documents incorporated by reference in the
definitions included in the pRDP, through hyperlinks.
7.3 Key changes between the definitions chapters of the operative
Christchurch City and Banks Peninsula District Plans and the pRDP are:
(a) The chapter is located at the beginning of the pRDP (as opposed
to the end as is currently the case in the Banks Peninsula District
Plan) and definitions are electronically accessed in-situ from the
body of the pRDP, for ease of use, and to align with the location of
definitions in legislation.
(b) The chapter amalgamates/reconciles the existing 209 and 119
definitions from the Christchurch City and Banks Peninsula District
Plans respectively, including through the deletion of similar and
redundant definitions.
(c) The chapter includes 302 definitions in Stage 1 as notified, 175 in
Stage 2 as notified, 31 in Stage 3 as proposed and 2 in Stage 4 as
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proposed, totalling 510, including amendments to 35 Stage 1
definitions.
Methodology used to develop the Definitions Proposal
7.4 The methodology used to develop the Definitions Proposal is explained in
detail at Appendix 1. I consider that the methodology is based on a
comprehensive set of key principles that closely align with the good
practice guidelines set out on the Quality Planning website. Perhaps more
relevant in the context of the pRDP is that the principles reflect the
Ministers' expectations around clarity and simplicity in the Statement of
Expectations Schedule 4 of the Order.
7.5 Much effort has been put into internal consistency and integration across
the Proposals. I note the comments by the Panel in its decision on
Strategic Directions and Strategic Outcomes, Paragraph 315, regarding
coherence and consistency relating to other provisions in the pRDP. I
would apply those comments equally to statutory documents prepared by
other agencies, having particular regard to the Council's functions under
section 31of the RMA relating to integrated resource management.
7.6 Account has been taken of the opportunities to improve usability provided
through the e-Plan platform, particularly hyperlinks - a feature not part of
the operative plans. These enable more precision in identifying words that
function as definitions in the context within which they are used. There are
often uncertainties for our planners administering operative plans around
which words are being used as a definition and for which provisions.
7.7 The Council has received feedback, and made amendments where
appropriate, from the Ministers pursuant to Clause 3(1) of the Order.
Consideration was also given to the comments from Environmental
Services Limited (Preliminary Usability Assessment) which were helpful in
the final crafting of the definitions and overall approach, based partly on
experience from the Auckland Unitary Plan.
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Identification of definitions within the pRDP
7.8 In the notes from a meeting on 13 April 2015 to discuss making the priority
decisions operative, the Panel advised that it "is opposed to the use of
defined words where they are formatted both as underlined/hyperlinked
and as not underlined hyperlinked." Furthermore, that "if CCC want to
underline, etc, to show they are defined then they can, but should do so for
all instances of that word. A defined word is always to be used in its
defined term - if that causes an issue anywhere, the CCC is to bring this to
the Panel's attention." On the basis of the above, the Panel's position is
understood to be that all words/phrases that are defined are to always have
their defined meaning. Also, if the Council wants to underline or hyperlink a
defined word or phrase it is to do so for every instance where the word or
phrase is used in the pRDP.
7.9 In considering this approach, I have had regard to the Statement of
Expectations contained in Schedule 4 of the Canterbury Earthquake
(Christchurch Replacement District Plan) Order 2014, and in particular
paragraph (a):
The expectations of the Minister for Canterbury Earthquake
Recovery and the Minister for the Environment are that the
replacement district plan—
(a) clearly articulates how decisions about resource use and
values will be made, which must be in a manner consistent
with an intention to reduce significantly (compared with the
existing district plans)—
(i) reliance on resource consent processes; and
(ii) the number, extent, and prescriptiveness of
development controls and design standards in the
rules, in order to encourage innovation and choice;
and
(iii) the requirements for notification and written approval:
…
(i) uses clear, concise language and is easy to use.
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7.10 I have also had regard to Chapter 3 Strategic Directions of the pRDP,
which was made operative on 25 May 2015. This chapter provides the
overarching direction for the pRDP, including for developing other chapters,
implementation and interpretation. I have examined the Panel's decision
on that Chapter, particularly the conclusions reached by the Panel around
process and efficiency as a Strategic Objective and therefore "fulfilling an
important role in the design of the pRDP (and in regard to its ongoing
implementation and interpretation)." (My emphasis).
7.11 I also note that in paragraph 120 of the decision "in the context of
"Sustainable management", "Management" is a word connoting process,
amongst other things." I am of the view that this also applies to 'integrated
management'.
7.12 Of particular relevance to considering the Definitions Proposal are the
following objectives:
3.3.1 Objective - Enabling recovery and facilitating the future
enhancement of the district
The expedited recovery and future enhancement of Christchurch
as a dynamic, prosperous and internationally competitive city, in a
manner that:
a. Meets the community’s immediate and longer term needs for
housing, economic development, community facilities,
infrastructure, transport, and social and cultural wellbeing;
and
b. Fosters investment certainty; and
c. Sustains the important qualities and values of the natural
environment.
3.3.2 Objective - Clarity of language and efficiency
The District Plan, through its preparation, change, interpretation
and implementation:
a. Minimises:
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i. transaction costs and reliance on resource consent
processes; and
ii. the number, extent, and prescriptiveness of
development controls and design standards in the
rules, in order to encourage innovation and choice;
and
iii. the requirements for notification and written approval;
and
b. Sets objectives and policies that clearly state the outcomes
intended; and
c. Uses clear, concise language so that the District Plan is
easy to understand and use.
7.13 I agree that defined words/phrases should be identified based on
experience with the operative Christchurch City Plan, which does not
identify defined words/phrases in their context. There are a number of
cases of a word/phrase being defined, but its use in a certain provision
clearly not being aligned with the definition.
7.14 An example is the use of "Net floor area". This definition was introduced
into the operative Christchurch City Plan as part of the Business zoning
and excluded bathrooms and hallways. At a later date, rules relating to the
size of residential units were included in the Living 3 (Medium Density)
Zone which also use "Net floor area". In this case, the Section 32 report is
clear that it is intended to exclude common areas such as lobbies, but
include private bathrooms and hallways. However, the definition itself and
its lack of identification as appropriate within the Plan make no such
distinction and the result is an unintended high number of resource consent
applications for undersized units.
7.15 However, the identification of defined words/phrases, through being
underlined/hyperlinked, in every instance they appear in the pRDP may
cause issues with interpretation of pRDP provisions and could
unnecessarily complicate administration of the pRDP, which may in turn be
inconsistent with the Statement of Expectations. This could happen where
definitions unintentionally apply to rules where the definition is out of
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context and could lead to absurd outcomes, which would decrease
certainty about what the rules mean (and what activities are permitted or
not). This in turn could result in the need to obtain confirmation from the
Council about whether an activity is permitted or not which could increase
certificate of compliance and resource consent applications, with
associated increases in cost and development timeframes.
7.16 I consider that the following issues could arise if defined words and
phrases are to always have their meaning as defined by the pRDP:
(a) The problem arises from the fact that some words have multiple
meanings (whether as a noun or as both a noun and a verb). It is
generally in the form of a noun that they are defined in the pRDP.
(b) Some defined words are also words that appear in some defined
phrases, neither of which always bare any relationship to the
other, or are part of other, not defined words.
(c) Other defined terms are specific to particular chapters or
provisions, and were never anticipated to be applied beyond them.
(d) Some words have multiple applications as an adjective, not all of
which may be intended in the context. Examples (including from
the Stage 2 and 3 Definitions Proposals), and the implications of
their identification in the wrong context are included in
Appendix 2.
7.17 In my view, the most appropriate approach is that where a word/phrase is
intended to be defined this is clearly indicated through being
underlined/hyperlinked. The Definitions Proposal should clearly state that
the definitions only apply where indicated as such, as per the following
suggested amendment to the Definitions Proposal's introduction:
This part of the District Plan explains the extended meaning of
words and phrases developed specifically for, and as used in the
context of, the Plan. Definitions only apply where identified via
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underlining/hyperlinking. In all other instances, words and
phrases…
7.18 This would provide the greatest clarity and certainty to both the public and
Plan administrators that a word/phrase is intentionally defined. This was
the intention when preparing the pRDP. However, given the tight
timeframe, the chapter leaders were not able to complete this process prior
to notification of the Stage 1 Definitions Proposal (but were better able to
do so with respect to Stage 2).
7.19 Once all decisions have been made and the final wording of definitions is
known, it is expected that there will be an opportunity to tidy up the
formatting of the pRDP before it is made operative and publicly available.
Ensuring that all definitions are identified as defined in every instance
where it is appropriate to do so in the context should be undertaken at this
time.
Outstanding definitions
7.20 "Outstanding definitions" that are the subject of this hearing are those set
out in Appendix B of the Statement of Issues dated 13 May 2015. These
definitions were identified through preparation of the table attached as
Appendix 3 and fall into the following two categories:
(a) Remaining definitions, being definitions which have yet to be
considered by the Panel because they were outside the scope of
previous hearings to date (refer Appendix 4: Definitions - Evidence
Table). These are notified definitions on which submissions may or
may not have been made. Where submissions have been made
they have been addressed in the evidence of the other Council
witnesses and the recommendations with respect to them are
collated in the Accept/Reject table in Appendix 5 of this evidence.
"Annual individual fatality risk", "Freeboard" and "Site" have been
added to the Remaining definitions as identified in Appendix B of
the Statement of Issues as not all submissions those definitions
were dealt with at a previous hearing.
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(b) Submitter definitions, being new, submitter requested definitions,
which have also yet to fall within the scope of a previous hearing.
Submissions on these are also addressed in the evidence of the
other Council witnesses and the recommendations with respect to
them are collated in the Accept/Reject table in Appendix 5 of this
evidence.
7.21 Inconsistences in how words and phrases have been defined in different
hearings, and issues arising because of the staged notification of the pRDP
are also addressed in this evidence.
7.22 The Remaining definitions which have not been submitted on, but which,
on the basis of advice from the other Council expert witnesses, and for the
reasons set out below, are still required in the pRDP as notified, are listed
in Appendix 6.
7.23 Following further consideration as to their necessity, the Remaining
definitions that have been submitted on but that can be deleted in favour of
the plain English definition are also listed in Appendix 6.
Comment on specific outstanding Definitions
7.24 I will now briefly comment on the following definitions listed in Appendix 6,
the first of which were not the subject of submissions:
(a) "Christchurch District": This definition is still required, with respect
to provisions in at least the Strategic Directions and Subdivision,
Development and Earthworks Chapters.
(b) "Contaminated land": This definition, on which no submissions
were received, was notified in Stage 1. It is used in Objective
12.2.1.1 and Policy 12.2.1.1.1 of the Contaminated Land section
of the Hazardous Substances and Contaminated Land Proposal,
which did not, in Stage 1, nor do not, in Stage 2, include
associated rules. However, it is used in the water body setback
rules in Chapter 6, as notified in Stage 2. It is therefore
recommended that this definition be retained.
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(c) "Greater Christchurch area of Christchurch District": This definition
is no longer required as the clause including the phrase was
removed by the Panel in Decision 1.
(d) "Greenfield": This definition is still required, with respect to
provisions in at least both the Strategic Directions and Subdivision,
Development and Earthworks Chapters.
(e) "Rural produce": This is a related definition to "Rural selling place",
which is used in Rule 7.2.3.8 – Vehicle crossings. The definition is
also required in Stage 2, without modification.
7.25 I also wish to briefly comment on the definition of "Electricity transmission
network". This term drew one submission supporting its retention as
notified (Transpower New Zealand Limited (Transpower), #832.11). I
record that the only use of this term in the pRDP as notified was in the
definition of "Strategic infrastructure". The Panel decided that it would be
better that "Strategic infrastructure" refers directly to national grid, rather
than referring to the "electricity transmission network". As "electricity
transmission network" is not used elsewhere in the pRDP, it can therefore
be deleted.
Remaining definitions and Submitter definitions to be deferred
7.26 The Remaining definitions and Submitter definitions which the Council
considers should be deferred to subsequent stages are listed in
Appendix 4.
7.27 Most of these definitions are covered in the evidence of the other Council
witnesses. However, I wish to briefly discuss the definition of "Hazardous
facility" proposed by Transpower (#832).
7.28 Transpower has sought the addition of the following new definition for
"Hazardous facility" in its submission:
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"means a site involving hazardous substances, including
vehicles for their transport and sites where these substances
are used, stored, handled and disposed of. Hazardous
facilities do not include the incidental use and storage of
hazardous substances in minimal domestic scale quantities,
retail outlets for domestic scale usage of hazardous
substances (i.e. hardware shops, home garden centres), fuel
in motor vehicles, boats and small engines, gas and oil
pipelines, trade waste sewers and waste treatment and
disposal facilities."
7.29 Transpower considers that defining this term provides clarity regarding
what facilities are captured by the rule in the Utilities and Energy Proposal
that seek to avoid unnecessary risk to the National Grid transmission lines
through the location of hazardous facilities in close proximity.
7.30 There is no definition of "Hazardous facility" in Stage 1 of the Definitions
Proposal because the phrase is not used in any of the Stage 1 proposals.
However, a definition of "Hazardous facility" is proposed in Stage 2, which
is used extensively in the Hazardous Substances and Contaminated Land
Proposal and Rule 11.3.2.1 of the Utilities and Energy Proposal.
7.31 On the basis that the definition is not required for Stage 1, it is
recommended that the relief sought be considered as part of Stage 2.
Inconsistencies between definitions
7.32 There are two areas of inconsistencies between definitions about which I
provide the following evidence.
7.33 Firstly, as the result of hearing Stage 1 definitions to date, inconsistencies
in the Council's position have been identified and reconciled as follows, and
documented in full in Appendix 7, with respect to the following twelve
definitions:
(a) "Community facility": Discussed in my evidence relating to
definitions relevant to the Residential Chapter.
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(b) "Education activity": having reviewed the three conflicting versions
arising with respect to residential and transport-related evidence.
Discussed in my evidence relating to definitions relevant to the
Residential Chapter.
(c) "Health care facility": In my evidence on the definitions relevant to
the Residential Chapter I propose a final version from the
Annexure F of the closing submission on the Residential Proposal.
That version takes into account the proposed amendment to this
definition in Stage 2, subject to a further amendment excluding
from the definition health care facilities in retirement villages.
(d) "Height": Discussed in my evidence relating to definitions relevant
to the Residential Chapter. The version of 'height' I propose
addressed earlier inconsistencies.
(e) "Landscaping": Mr Stevenson recommends that the version in the
closing legal submissions on the Residential Proposal is accepted.
(f) "Place of assembly": In my evidence relating to definitions relevant
to the Residential Chapter I endorse the amendment to this
definition proposed in Stage 2.
(g) "Pre-school": Mr Stevenson recommends that the amendments
put forward by Mr Blair for the Residential Proposal be accepted,
subject to a further amendment regarding it being applicable to the
education of more than four children.
(h) "Sensitive activities": Mr Stevenson recommends that the revised
version put forward to the Panel in closing submissions on the
commercial and Industrial Proposals be accepted.
(i) "Service station": Mr Stevenson proposes a revised version from
those presented earlier.
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(j) "Site": In my evidence relating to definitions relevant to the
Residential Chapter I propose a final version of this definition
which addresses submissions in a manner appropriate to its
application in all proposals.
(k) "Spiritual facility": To reconcile the inconsistencies and enable use
of this definition appropriate to the needs of the Residential,
Commercial and Industrial Proposals, Mr Stevenson recommends
that separate definitions of "Spiritual activity" and "Spiritual facility"
are introduced into Stage 1.
(l) "Yard-based supplier": Mr Stevenson proposes a final version
mutually satisfactory to both the Commercial and Industrial, and
Transport, Chapters.
7.34 Secondly, the development of the pRDP (more specifically the Definitions
Proposal) in three stages has created the potential for some Stage 1
definitions to be inadequate for, unworkable in and poorly integrated with
the definitions developed in conjunction with the chapters in subsequent
stages.
7.35 Proposing amendments to Stage 1 definitions as part of Stages 2 or 3 to
avoid this has the potential to result in multiple and inconsistent versions of
the same definition. In response to the Ministers’ comments on Stage 2,
the Council has endeavoured to minimise the number of Stage 1 definitions
originally proposed for amendment in Stages 2 or 3 by reconsidering
whether the amendments were really needed, qualifying/narrowing their
application to a specific chapter or provision bringing the proposed
amendments and the implications of them to the Panel’s attention via the
Council’s application for direction dated 16 April 2015.
7.36 Even so, amendments to the thirty-five Stage 1 definitions (listed in
Appendix 8) are nevertheless being proposed in Stages 2 or 3 for the
following reasons:
(a) Many definitions are relied on by more than one chapter and, in
some cases, by chapters in all stages. In some of these cases, the
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definition is more appropriately defined in conjunction with a Stage
2 or 3 chapter, but required an interim definition for use in the
Stage 1 chapters. For example, while Education activity is referred
to in the Stage 1 Residential Chapter, it is most appropriately
defined in conjunction with the education-related zones in the
Specific Purposes Chapter notified in Stage 2. Likewise, while
Indigenous vegetation is referred to in the Stage 1 Subdivision,
Development and Earthworks Chapter, it is most appropriately
defined in conjunction with the Natural and Cultural Heritage
Chapter notified in Stage 3, hence the deferral of consideration of
this definition to Stage 3.
(b) To better align/integrate Stage 1 definitions with new Stage 2
definitions. For example, amendments to the related definitions of
"Approved building", "Building", "Entertainment activity",
"Recreation activity", "Relocation of a building" and "Surface water
management structure" are required as a consequence of
renaming "Temporary buildings and activities" to "Temporary
activities and buildings" (in conjunction with other more
substantive amendments proposed to that definition).
(c) It is a result of an amendment to external legislation or regulation-
based definitions the pRDP relies on. For example, the definition
of "Community infrastructure" as notified was amended by Section
51(3) of the Local Government Act Amendment Act 2014.
7.37 The Panel’s options when making and releasing decisions on these, and
indeed all, Stage 1 definitions appear to be:
(a) Make and release final decisions sequentially at the end of each of
Stage 1 topic or chapter-specific hearing; or
(b) Make but hold off on releasing final decisions together until at the
end of the Stage 2 and 3 hearings.
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7.38 In my opinion, to ensure any decisions released can be implemented
immediately, they should include all of the necessary definitions and any
interim provisions (e.g. zoning or other rules) where they are reliant on
further decisions.
7.39 I accept this will likely result in multiple versions of the same definition or
may lead to the Panel needing to revisit some definitions. However, I think
it is preferable to have a large number of detailed and appropriate chapter-
specific definitions, rather than a smaller number of general ones. The
pRDP also better accommodates a larger number of definitions as its
electronic format makes them more easily accessible via individual
hyperlink.
7.40 In my opinion, it would be best if the Panel make and release decisions on
all of the Stage 1 definitions to ensure the Stage 1 provisions are workable,
and that those Stage 1 definitions amended in Stages 2 or 3 be
reconsidered as part of the hearing of submissions on those later stages.2
Submissions seeking specific relief of a general nature
7.41 The specific relief of a general nature sought by submitters and further
submitters falls into the following four categories:
(a) Amendments sought to Introductory Note 2 to the Definitions
Proposal;
(b) Opposition to Stage 1 definitions in the absence of Stage 2 rules
to which they may apply and the reservation of the right to revisit
Stage 1 definitions if relevant during Stage 2;
(c) Ensuring that the proposed definitions give effect to the relief
sought; and
(d) Natural hazards-related definitions.
2 Except where deferral of consideration of a definition.
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7.42 I have assessed the specific relief of a general nature sought by submitters
and further submitters, insofar as it relates to my area of expertise, below
and have come to a conclusion as to whether I consider it appropriate for
the relief sought to either be accepted or rejected.
Introductory Note 2
Submitter
Transpower New Zealand Limited (832, Schedule 1, page 3)
7.43 Transpower has requested that introductory note 2 to the Definitions
Chapter be amended as follows:
2. Where a word or phrase is defined in NZ government
legislation, policy or regulations (such as the National Policy
Statements and National Environmental Standards) and is
relied upon for the purpose of interpretation in this Plan, these
terms are identified accordingly and quoted for information
purposes only. These definitions were current at the time of
notification of the Plan. Users should refer to the latest version
of the relevant legislation.
7.44 As explained by introductory note 2 to the Definitions Chapter, there are 17
definitions in Stage 1 as notified that are words/phrases defined by
legislation and related documents which are relied on for the purpose of its
interpretation and therefore included in the chapter for users' information.
They are all identified in a consistent manner, as per the following example:
Contaminated land
[has the same meaning as in s 2 of the Resource
Management Act 1991]
means land that has a hazardous substance in or on it that-
a. has significant adverse effects on the environment; or
b. is reasonably likely to have significant adverse effects on
the environment.
7.45 All 17 are sourced from a specified piece of legislation or related document,
the wording of introductory note 2 was correct at the time of notification.
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However, since then, the Panel has added three definitions sourced
externally, one of which – "National grid" - is sourced from the National
Policy Statement on Electricity Transmission 2008. Looking forward, Stage
2 as notified includes 15 externally sourced definitions and Stage 3 as
proposed includes one, of which five - Stage 2 definitions – "BOD5",
"Flammable/Flammability", "Primary explosive substance", "Propellant
explosive substance" and "Radioactive material" - are sourced from an
external document other than just a piece of legislation.
7.46 I therefore consider it is appropriate to amend introductory note 2 to the
Definitions Proposal to reflect that some definitions are externally sourced,
not just from legislation, but also from other documents. However, as
"National grid" is the only one of the 36 definitions sourced from a National
Policy Statement, highlighting National Policy Statements (NPS) as
requested by the submitter is misleading as to the number of definitions
which rely on the NPS.
7.47 I therefore consider it appropriate to accept the submission in part by
amending introductory note 2 as follows:
2. Where a word or phrase is defined in NZ government
legislation or related documents arising therefrom, and is
relied upon for the purpose of interpretation in this Plan, these
terms are identified accordingly and quoted for information
purposes only. These definitions were current at the time of
notification of the Plan. Users should refer to the latest version
of the relevant legislation.
Opposition to Stage 1 definitions in absence of Stage 2 rules/reservation of
right to revisit if relevant during Stage 2
Submitter
Maurice R Carter Limited (377, part specific to properties within the operative
Rural Quarry Zone, page 2; part specific to 5.4ha near corner of Highsted and
Claridges Roads, page 3) FS1334.1
Higgins Contractors Limited (827, page 4) FS1375.13, FS1334.11, FS1334.12
and FS1316.5
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Orion New Zealand (922, Appendix 1, pages 2-3)
7.48 Maurice R Carter Limited, Higgins Contractors Limited and Orion New
Zealand have submitted in opposition to decisions being issued on, and
wish to reserve the right to revisit, the Stage 1 definitions should it become
apparent they are of direct relevance to rules affecting them in Stage 2.
7.49 The development of the pRDP (more specifically the Definitions Proposal)
in three stages has created the potential for issues to arise in relation to the
relationship between the definitions notified in Stage 1 and provisions of
the pRDP notified in Stages 2 and 3. As discussed above, amendments to
some Stage 1 definitions have accordingly been proposed as part of Stage
2, and further changes to a very small number of definitions may be
required in Stage 3.3 The need to the make and release decisions on all of
the Stage 1 definitions to ensure the Stage 1 provisions are workable has
been discussed earlier in my evidence.
7.50 To the extent that any Stage 1 definitions, particularly those to which
amendments are proposed in Stage 2 or 3, are revisited as part of the
hearing of submissions on those latter stages, I recommend that these
three submissions be accepted in part.4
Ensuring proposed definitions give effect to the relief sought
Submitter
Maurice R Carter Limited (377, part specific to properties within the operative
Rural Quarry Zone, page 7; part specific to 5.4ha near corner of Highsted and
Claridges Roads, page 10)
Marriner Investments Limited (378, page 10)
Avonhead Mall Limited (379, page 10)
Marriner Investments No. 1 Limited (380, page 12)
Oakvale Farm Limited (381, part specific to 4.9ha on corner of Milns and Sparks
Roads, page 10; part specific to 21.7ha on corner of Glovers and Kennedys Bush
Roads, page 10)
3 Refer to Appendix 8. 4 The following further submissions by Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group FS1334.1 supporting 377.1 and Ngāi Tahu Property Limited FS1375.13, Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group FS1334.11 and FS1334.12 and Maurice R Carter Limited FS1316.5 supporting 827.3 are accordingly also recommended to be accepted in part.
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Maurice Carter Charitable Trust (385, page 9)
Carter Group Limited (386, page 7)
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) (495, page 39) FS1420,
FS1294.46 and FS1270.1
AMP Capital Palms Property Limited (814, page 14) FS1376
Peebles Family Trust (1078, part specific to 130 and 372, 374 and 376
Moorhouse Avenue, page 8; part specific to 151-155, 472 and 477 Blenheim
Road, page 11)
Taylor Space Investments Limited (1079, part specific to 11 Nga Mahi Road and
503-511 Blenheim Road, page 9; part specific to 81 Riccarton Road and 6 Nelson
Street, page 9; and part specific to 85 Shands Road, page 8)
880 Main North Road Limited (1081, page 12) FS1345
484 Cranford Limited (1084, page 8)
7990 Limited (1086, page 11)
Peebles Group Limited (1195, page 11)
7.51 In addition to relief specific to individual definitions, all of the above
submitters have included a catch-all that the proposed definitions give
effect to the relief sought.
7.52 The definitions used (i.e. words/phrases identified as being defined) in
each of the substantive chapters have been considered in the preceding
topic and chapter-specific hearings, in conjunction with the provisions for
which they have been required to assist interpretation.
7.53 Without the Panel's yet to be released decisions on those definitions and
provisions, it is not possible to comment other than to say that the
definitions the Council considers are required have been recommended by
the relevant chapter leaders. As not all of the above submitters will have
their relief sought granted, at best these submissions can only be
considered accepted in part in the meantime.5
5 The following further submissions by Eliot Sinclair FS1420 and the Property Council New Zealand FS1294.46 supporting 495.62; by Scentre (NZ) Limited FS1270.1 opposing 495.62; by the Green Building Council FS1376 opposing 814.3; and by FS1345 supporting 1081.2 can also only be accepted in part.
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8. CHANGES TO PROPOSED STRUCTURE OF THE DEFINITIONS
PROPOSAL
8.1 The structure of the Definitions Proposal requires consideration, as noted
on page 4 of the associated Statement of Issues with respect to the related
definitions, and in response to the request by Mahaanui Kurataiao Limited
and Te Rūnanga O Ngāi Tahu to relocate Maori terminology into a
glossary.
Related definitions
8.2 As explained in introductory note 3. to the Definitions Proposal, other
definitions on which each core definition relies (reliant definitions) or is
related to (related definitions) are identified for information purposes, to
assist their interpretation and to illustrate the relationship between some
definitions. Reliant definitions are those words/phrases within a core
definition which are themselves defined and extend the meaning of the
core definition. These were easily identified, although did require some
judgement to ensure they are appropriately identified in the context of the
core definition, depending on their own definition.
8.3 Related definitions are not referenced directly to the core definition. An
example of how the related definitions were intended to assist is whether a
site is considered a "Front site" is assisted by the definition of not just
"Front site", but of "Rear site" and "Corner site" as well. As the related
definitions do not appear to be adding the same value to users of the pRDP
as the reliant definitions, the Council considers the references to related
definitions should be deleted. I also note that the identification of related
definitions required more of a judgement call and that they add an
unnecessary layer of complexity to the consideration of submissions on
definitions.
Addition of a glossary
Addition of a glossary
Submitter
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Mahaanui Kurataiao Limited and Te Rūnanga O Ngāi Tahu (1145, page 7)
FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS 1389, FS1422, FS1449, FS1451 and FS1145.3
8.4 Mahaanui Kurataiao Limited (MKT) and Ngāi Tahu have requested that the
following Ngāi Tahu terms be deleted from the Definitions Proposal
because they have been inappropriately defined in the pRDP:
Kaitiakitanga Mauritanga Wāhi taonga
Kotahitanga Ngāi
Tahu/Manawhenua
Wāhi tapu
Manaakitanga Orangatanga Wairuatanga
Mātauranga Rangitiratanga Whanaungatanga
8.5 They advise that the definitions have been shortened, taking them out of
context and resulting in inaccurate meanings. Some terms are specific to a
certain topic, such as the Māori Urban Design Protocols, but they have
been added to the Definitions Proposal and given a generic meaning which
is inaccurate.
8.6 MKT and Ngāi Tahu advise that most of these terms do not need to be
defined in the pRDP to enable correct interpretation of a rule. Rather,
knowledge of the term assists people's understanding of Ngāi Tahu
concepts. Alternatively MKT and Ngāi Tahu suggest that having a glossary
of Ngāi Tahu terms would enable a fuller meaning and contextual
description of the concepts and is consistent with the approach taken in the
CRPS.
8.7 Accordingly MKT and Ngāi Tahu request adding the glossary of Ngāi Tahu
terms from the Proposed Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan,
starting from Section 1.3.1 Key Partnerships, Ngāi Tahu, to Section 3
Manawhenua of Chapter 1, the Introduction Proposal.
8.8 In preparing the pRDP, the Council is obliged by sections 6(e), 7(a) and 8
of the RMA respectively to recognise and provide for the relationship of
Māori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water,
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sites, waahi tapu and other taonga; to have particular regard to
kaitiakitanga; and to take into account the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Providing an explanation of Māori concepts relevant to managing the use,
development and protection of natural and physical resources may be
useful for that aspect of the pRDP, as well as assisting user understanding
of the pRDP.
8.9 The submitters' request raises the question of whether the Definitions
Proposal is an appropriate or helpful way of responding to sections 6(e),
7(a) and 8 in the pRDP. Definitions, by nature, need to be brief in form but
clear and comprehensive in scope. I recognise that the proposed
definitions may be rendered out of context and inaccurate through
expression as definitions, as advised by the submitter.
8.10 The questions then are:
(a) how does a glossary differ from the existing Definitions Proposal,
since both contain lists of specialised words? and
(b) are the above terms better included in a glossary?
8.11 The specialised words in the Definitions Proposal do not just clarify but
have a significant influence on how:
(a) the pRDP (in particular the rules) is interpreted;
(b) the pRDP is administered; and
(c) the environmental outcomes which result.
8.12 In comparison, glossaries only concern themselves with terms that will
enhance comprehension of a specialised topic, including languages. As
such, unlike the definitions, a glossary need not form part of the pRDP if its
presence is clearly noted as for information purposes only.
8.13 The information the submitter requests be included in a glossary is not so
much a list of terms as a detailed explanation of Ngāi Tahu's right to
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participate meaningfully in the management of natural resources within the
Christchurch District. While MKT and Ngāi Tahu call it a glossary, neither
the information format nor content are consistent with what one normally
understands a glossary to be in format and content.
8.14 I consider this is information more appropriately located in Section 3
Manawhenua of Chapter 1, the Introduction Proposal, as suggested by the
submitter. Location there will enable explanation of Maori terms while also
enhance user understanding of them. It would be helpful to add the
following explanatory note to the Definitions Chapter, however, pointing
users in the direction of this section of the pRDP for an explanation of
Māori terms, which can/will also be hyperlinked to from the body of the
pRDP:
Please note:
1 Where are word or phrase…
4 Please refer to Section 3 Manawhenua of Chapter 1
Introduction for an explanation of Māori terms and
concepts relevant to the management of natural
resources within the Christchurch District.
8.15 Although the information that the submitter requests be included is sourced
from the Proposed Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan, I consider it
requires amending. The information currently relates to the Canterbury
region and amendment is required to make it more appropriate to the
Christchurch District. Amendments will also ensure any addition to
Chapter 1 fits with the information which the submitter has requested via its
separate submission point (1145.1) on the Introduction Chapter, which is to
replace Section 3 Manawhenua as notified and to incorporate other Māori
terms used in other parts of the pRDP.6
8.16 The submitter has been contacted and has confirmed that they will provide
an amended version via their evidence. The submitter's request to delete
the specified terms from the Definitions Proposal is accepted, although the
6 Section 8.3 Statutory acknowledgement within the district of Christchurch City.
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need to amend the information replacing them in the Introduction Proposal
renders the overall position to accept in part.7
8.17 As the following further Māori terms are notified in or requested via
submissions on Stages 1 and 2, the submitter has been contacted and has
confirmed that they would prefer them to also be deleted from the pRDP:
(a) in Stage 1 as notified: "Tūrangawaewae" and "Waipuna";
(b) sought by Council submission on Stage 1: "Mahinga kai";
(c) sought by Council submission on Stage 2: replacement of
"Kaitiakitanga" with the RMA definition and inclusion of "Mana
whenua" as per the RMA definition and the following definition of
"Papakainga":
Papakainga
means a place for the development of housing,
social, cultural and economic activities by mana
whenua.
8.18 There are no additional Māori definitions proposed in Stage 3.
Addition of an abbreviations list
8.19 Although in my view there is no need for a glossary in light of the above, I
consider separating out of the following (what are effectively) abbreviations
from the list of definitions and relocating them into a separate component
of a renamed Abbreviations and Definitions Chapter is appropriate:
(a) AEP means annual exceedance probability.
(b) CHRM means community housing redevelopment mechanism.
(c) EDM means enhanced development mechanism.
(d) FTE means full time equivalent.
(e) GFA means gross floor area. 7 The following further submissions by the Radford Family FS1345, Ray Wood FS1344, Quaifes Road developments Limited FS1353.2, Fox and Associates Limited FS1422, Kristy Inwood FS1449 and the Halswell Trust FS1451 opposing 1145.3 are therefore also accepted in part.
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(f) GLFA means gross leasable floor area.
(g) PFA means public floor area.
(h) AIFR means annual individual fatality risk.
9. CHANGES TO THE OPERATIVE CITY PLAN
9.1 For completeness, I record that there are two 'live' plan changes that were
notified prior to the Order coming into effect, and are both subject to Clause
4(2)(b) of the Order:
(a) Plan Change 52, Ruapuna Motorsport Park Noise Management is
being heard in the Environment Court (ENV-2013-CHC-085 &
ENV-2013-CHC-085); and
(b) Plan Change 84, Special Purpose Airport Zone, is currently
subject to Environment Court mediation (ENV-2015-CHC-28).
9.2 Both Plan Changes contain definitions, some of which may change as a
result of the Court proceedings. It is intended to insert these Changes into
the pRDP pursuant to Clause 4(3) as Specific Purpose Zones and to leave
the definitions in these zones.
9.3 The definitions for Plan Change 52 are:
(a) Noise Sensitive Activities in relation to Ruapuna Motorsport Park;
(b) Special Interest Vehicle; and
(c) Drag Racing.
9.4 The definitions for Plan Change 84 are:
(a) Freight depots;
(b) Light manufacturing and servicing;
(c) Manufacturing;
(d) Repair and maintenance services;
(e) Strategic transport network;
(f) Supermarket; and
(g) Warehousing and distribution activities.
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9.5 I do not consider that these definitions will create any issues with respect to
the Definitions Proposal, and to the extent possible the Council is seeking
through the Court proceedings to get some consistency with the relevant
pRDP definitions, where appropriate.
Ivan Thomson
9 June 2015
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Appendix 1: Methodology used to develop the Definitions Proposal
1. A ten-column master table was created, to collate all information relevant to
each existing and proposed definition and to track where it is in the
Definitions Chapter and pRDP preparation process. It began with listing
alphabetically existing Christchurch City Plan and Banks Peninsula District
Plan definitions, their context within those plans (i.e. the chapters they
feature in), the date they became operative and origin (if known) and
issues/rationale for change to them (including the chapter/s for which they
are sought in the pRDP).
2. When identifying the need for, and initially drafting, pRDP definitions, the
other chapter leaders were instructed to adhere to the following principles:
(a) Use of the common understanding of a word if sufficient in its
context.
(b) Avoidance of inappropriate definitions, such as scientific definitions
(which the science community do not always agree on) and vague
concepts, such as 'acceptable'.
(c) Definitions are generally applicable to rules only, except where
special circumstances warrant their application in objectives and
policies as well, e.g. words/phrases for which a legally determined
definition exists, for the reason that definitions are a form of
shorthand which allow the rules to be more shorter and succinct and
because their primary role is to provide certainty to the regulatory
provisions of the plan which dictate the status of activities.
(d) Be cognisant of and use or align with (as appropriate) relevant
definitions in relevant higher order documents, the definitions in the
plans of adjoining territorial authorities and the definitions in the
Mahaanui Iwi Management Plan, i.e.:
(i) Where a word or phrase is identified as needed, and it is
defined in the RMA or other legislation, then the legislative
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definition is used, identified accordingly and noted as being in
the pRDP for information purposes only.
(ii) Where a word or phrase is identified as needed, and it is
defined in higher order documents which the pRDP must give
effect to (e.g. the CRPS/Chapter 6) and not be inconsistent
with (e.g. CCRP), then their definition is used, or tweaked
slightly as appropriate to the Plan without compromising those
statutory obligations or the substance of the definition.
(iii) Where a Māori word or phrase is identified as needed, the
correct spelling and definition is informed by Mahaanui
Kurataiao Limited and/or the Mahaanui Iwi Management Plan.
(e) Exclude from definitions any content of a regulatory nature more
appropriately located within a rule.
(f) Include and justify definitions identified by them within the Section 32
reports for the relevant pRDP chapter.
(g) Definitions are to be relied on wherever it is appropriate to do so in
the context, i.e. in addition to identifying (by way of underlining) the
defined words/phrases requested by a chapter leader with respect to
their chapter, defined words/phrases generated by another chapter
but used in their chapter should also be relied on (byway of
underlining) where appropriate in the context.
3. In preparing the Definitions Proposal regard has been had to the
requirement for integration in section 31 of the RMA, and the best way the
Definitions Proposal can assist achieving the purpose of the RMA. An
internally consistent set of definitions was the desired outcome. As pRDP
definitions (either existing amended or new) were requested by the other
chapter leaders, to address the issue of integration of definitions, the initial
draft was:
(a) reviewed for consistency/integration with other pRDP definitions
already proposed;
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(b) redrafted as necessary between, and to the mutual satisfaction of,
the relevant chapter leaders (Definitions Chapter included); and
(c) consequential amendments to other pRDP definitions were also
made at this time as necessary.
5. As pRDP definitions (either existing, amended or new) were requested by
the other chapter leaders, the following information was also added: their
redraft; their reliant and related definitions; addition of them to the reliant and
related definitions of other pRDP definitions as appropriate (by way of an
electronic word search of the other pDPR and judgement calls); whether
they require associated graphics; in which stage of the pRDP they are
required; and whether their confirmed redrafts have been inputted into
ePlan. The origin of all pRDP definitions was identified by shading as
follows:
(a) Operative Christchurch City Plan – green;
(b) Operative Banks Peninsula District Plan – blue;
(c) New definitions (sourced from LURP) – dark orange;
(d) New definitions (sourced from Chapter 6 of the Canterbury Regional
Policy Statement) – mid orange;
(e) New definitions (other) – light orange.
6. This has helped determine:
(a) The definitions from higher order plans with which the pRDP needs
to be consistent with and/or rely on;
(b) The definitions overlap between the operative Christchurch City and
Banks Peninsula District Plans;
(c) The definitions overlap between chapters within each plan, i.e. the
extent of their relationships to each other;
(d) The extent to which they are needed;
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(e) Issues with each existing definition;
(f) Whether any can be combined or replaced by one or the other;
(g) Whether there are any gaps/omissions; and
(h) Which, if any, definitions will require other external input?
7. The nature of the pRDP definition was identified by:
(a) Normal black text for existing, unamended definitions;
(b) Amendments to the existing definition indicated via red strikethrough
for deleted text and red underlined for added text; and
(c) Red underlined text for new definitions.
8. A further table was created to document confirmed, amended existing and
new definitions and the chapter and person which identified the need for and
requested them.
9. The draft Definitions Proposal was subsequently amended as appropriate as
the result of presentation to the Council before and after community
consultation in February/March 2014 and the Ministers' comments in
July/August 2014.
10. Post-notification feedback which has influenced the Council's response to
submissions on Stage 1 of the pRDP includes the 'Proposed Christchurch
Replacement District Plan Preliminary Usability Assessment' dated 24
November 2014, prepared by Environmental Management Services Limited.
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Appendix 2: Examples of definitions and the implications of their
identification in the wrong context
1. Stage 2 and 3 definitions are identified with the following notations: (Stg 2).
2. Definitions with multiple meanings as a noun:
"Council" - identification irrespective of context would also pick up
references to regional council, when the definition relates to the
Christchurch City Council.
3. Definitions with multiple meanings, where identification irrespective of
context would pick up use as both a noun and a verb, when the definition
relates to the noun:
"Access".
"Building"(Stgs 1 and 2).
"Reserve".
"Site"(Stgs 1 and 2).
4. Defined words that appear in defined phrases, where identification
irrespective of context would be both superfluous and confusing:
"Reserve" - identification irrespective of context would pick up
"Esplanade reserve" and "Road reserve", when it is only linked to the
Reserves Act.
"Setback" - identification irrespective of context would pick up "Water
body setback"(Stg 2), when it is only relevant to building to boundary, while
"Water body setback" also applies to earthworks.
5. Defined words that are part of not defined words:
"Act" and activity.
6. Definitions specific to particular Chapters or provisions:
"Demolition"(Stg 3) - identification irrespective of context would pick up all
demolition-related references, when it is only relevant to heritage
buildings.
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"Installed" - identification irrespective of context would pick this up in
relation to sediment controls on earthworks near waterways, when it is
only relevant to buildings or car parks.
"Location"(Stg 2) - identification irrespective of context would pick up all
references to location, when it is only relevant to natural hazards.
"Maintenance"(Stg 3) - identification irrespective of context would pick up
vegetation maintenance along waterways, when it is only relevant to
heritage items.
"Storage"(Stg 2) - identification irrespective of context would pick up all
references to storage, including Outdoor storage area, when it's only
relevant to hazardous substances.
"Transmission"(Stg 2) - identification irrespective of context would pick up
references to sound transmission, when it is only relevant to electricity
transmission.
"Use"(Stg 2) - identification irrespective of context would pick up all
references to use, when it is only relevant to hazardous substances.
7. Definitions with multiple applications as an adjective:
"Height"(Stgs 1 and 2) - identification would pick up references to sign and
tree height, when it's only relevant to building height.
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Definition
1 in 20 year tidal event (5% AEP) YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
1 in 200 year rainfall event (0.5% AEP) YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Acceptable level YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Acceptable risk YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Access Y Y Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Access - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Accessibility Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Accessible Y Y Y
Definition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Accepting with amendments - Annexure A and B (part 1) Council Closing Submissions Residential Hearing (submission number 495 The Crown - evidence of Sandra McIntyre & Maurice Dale)Council evidence for Definitions Hearing - Chapter 7 Transport (David Falconer)
Access lot YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Accessory building Y Y Y Y YChapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015 splits accessory building into two definitions: accessory building (non-residential activity) and accessory building (residential activity)
Accessory Building - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Access strip YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Access way Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Accidental discovery protocolDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: accept in part
Act YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Active Transport Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer: retain as notified
Addiction services YDefinition proposed by submission number 422 (The Salvation Army)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: add new definition (in response to submission number 422, Salvation Army).
Adjoining Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
AEP Y Y Y Y Moved to abbreviation list at the beginning of Chapter 2
Alcohol licence Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Mark Stevenson: delete definition
Allotment Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Allotment - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Amenity values Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Decided on in Priority Decisions Within scope of Hearing, as per Statement of Issues
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Anchor store YChapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission from Harvey Norman): The amendment sought is not considered appropriate and the relief is rejected.
Ancillary Y Y
Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 1028 (FS1436, FS1442 and FS1375), Toni Carter); 705, Foodstuffs; 725, Bunnings; 790, Progressive Enterprises; 827, Higgins Contractors; 840, Ngai Tahu Property; 920, Waterloo Park; 977, Goodman Property Trust); Rebuttal Evidence of Mark Stevenson dated 4 May 2015 further changes (response to submission number 1014,Gelita)Accepted with amendments - Mark Stevenson evidence Commercial / Industrial Hearing (note also subsequent changes to ancillary office activity and ancillary retail activity); Mark Stevenson rebuttal evidence Commercial / Industrial Hearing
Ancillary office activity Y Y
Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 delete definition (response to submission numbers 705 (FS1450 and FS1270), Foodstuffs South Island Ltd and Foodstuffs (South Island) Properties Ltd; 725 (FS1450), Bunnings Ltd; 790, Progressive Enterprises Ltd; 827, Higgins Contractors Ltd; 840 (FS1420), Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd; 920, Waterloo Park Ltd; 977 (FS1450, FS1281 and FS1270), Goodman Property Trust; 1014, Gelita NZ).
Ancillary retail activity Y Y
Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 delete definition (response to submission numbers 705 (FS1450 and FS1270), Foodstuffs South Island Ltd and Foodstuffs (South Island) Properties Ltd; 725 (FS1450), Bunnings Ltd; 790, Progressive Enterprises Ltd; 827, Higgins Contractors Ltd; 840 (FS1420), Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd; 920, Waterloo Park Ltd; 977 (FS1450, FS1281 and FS1270), Goodman Property Trust; 1014, Gelita NZ).
Ancillary showroom activity Y
Definition proposed by submission number 776 (Bellavista Property Consultants)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson: reject inclusion of definition
Annual exceedance probability Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Annual individual fatality risk Y YNatural Hazards Note: while definition discussed at Hearing, there was no specific discussion on submissions relating to this definitionDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject amendments
Apartment Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Apartment - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Approved building Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Archaeological site Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Arterial roads Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Articulation Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson: retain as notified
Automotive and/or marine supplier Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer: retain as notified
Available (parking) Y
Definition proposed by submission number 738 (Ilam and Upper Riccarton Residents' Association)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer: reject inclusion of definition
Balcony Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Banks Peninsula Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Bed and Breakfast YChapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number 893, Grimshaw, Exhibit 22)
Birdstrike Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Mark Stevenson: retain as notified (in response to submission 863 Christchurch International Airport)
Birdstrike risk activities Y Y
Definition proposed by submission number 863 (CIAL)Chapter 8 Subdivision, Development and Earthworks - evidence in chief of Andrew Long: reject inclusion of definition; Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson: reject inclusion of definition
Boarding House Y Y Y
Definition proposed by submission number 738 (Ilam and Upper Riccarton Residents' Association)Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A add new definition (response to submission number 738 Ilam and Upper Riccarton Residents Association); Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan Thomson: retain as per Chapter 14 Hearing
Boarding Room Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A add new definition (response to submission number 738 Ilam and Upper Riccarton Residents Association); Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan Thomson: retain as per Chapter 14 Hearing
Boulder roll YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Boundary Y Y Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Boundary - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
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Brownfield Y Chapter 16 industrial Hearing - Mark Stevenson for Council: changes to definition wording introduced as an exhibit while on stand
Building Y Y Y Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Building - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Building consent platform Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Andrew Long: delete definition
Building line restriction Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Building supplier Y Y
Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 amendments to definition wording (response to submission numbers 725, Bunnings Ltd; and 886 (FS1412, FS1445, FS1279 and FS1447), Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group (CAPG)).
Café Y YChapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Residential Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission numbers 775, Annex Developments; and 920, Waterloo Park Ltd).
Care facility Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Care home Y Y
Definition proposed by submission number 573 (Retirement Village Assn of NZ Inc)Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A amendments to definition wording (Blair first statement of rebuttal, para 25.2; Transcript 20/04/15, page 1193 and 1210); Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan Thomson: retain as per Chapter 14 Hearing
Carriageway YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Central City Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Certified minimum finished floor level YChapter 5 natural hazards Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 8 April 2015: new definition added
Christchurch City Council Datum Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: retain as notified
Christchurch District Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson
Christchurch District excluding Banks Peninsula Ward Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Andrew Long
CHRM Y Moved to abbreviation list at the beginning of Chapter 2
Civic Park YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Clean fill YDefinition proposed by submission number 886 (Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Adele Radburnd
Cliff collapse YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Collector roads Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Commercial activities Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Commercial centre YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Commercial services Y Y Y Y
Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 amendments to definition wording (response to submission numbers 34, New Zealand Racing Board; 160, Grant Miles; 863 (FS1453, FS1435 and FS1434), CIAL; 1142, ADNZ Canterbury/Westland Region).
Community Corrections Facility Y Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number #495 Crown and Supplementary Statement of Evidence of Mr Blair Topic 2)Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Rebuttal Evidence of Mark Stevenson dated 4 May 2015 (response to submission number 495, The Crown)The same new definition added under both Chapters
Community facility Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential - Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number #495 Crown); Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Rebuttal Evidence of Mark Stevenson dated 4 May 2015 (response to submission number 495, The Crown)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: final wording
Community garden Y
Definition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Chapter 14 Residential- addressing submission post Hearing and Council closing legal submissions (Annexure A)dated 23 April 2015; Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan ThomsonNote: is also used in Stage 2 Chapter 18 Open Space Community Parks Zone. Wording for new definition reflected in this table has been agreed with this Chapter Lead Anita Hansbury
Community housing unit YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Community infrastructure Y YChapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (Supplementary Statement of Evidence of Mr Blair Topic 1)
Community welfare facility Y Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number 495, The Crown)
Contaminated land YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Context and site analysis YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
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Convenience activities YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Core public transport route YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Corner Site YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Council Y Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Council - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Coverage Y Y
Definition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Residential Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
Critical infrastructure Y
Natural Hazards Note: only Radio New Zealand submission was specifically discussedNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Cultural heritage YDefinition proposed by submission number 778 (Heritage NZ Pouhere Taonga)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Caroline Rachlin
Cultural heritage sites YDefinition proposed by submission number 778 (Heritage NZ Pouhere Taonga)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Caroline Rachlin
Cycle lane YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Cycle route Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Cycle way Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Density uplift areas YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Density uplift areas - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Department store YChapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 amendment to definition wording sought rejected (response to submission from Harvey Norman)
Detailed design statement Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Development Y Y Y Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 1 (delete definition)
Development - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Development contribution Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Development plan Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Development Plan - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
District Centre YChapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 - amend definition
District Plan Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Dripline Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Andrew Long
Drive-through services YChapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission numbers 988, Mobil; 723, Oil Companies; and 388 McDonalds)
Duplex Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Duplex - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Early childhood education facilities Y Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number 495, The Crown)
Earthworks Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Andrew Long: amendments
EDM Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan Thomson: delete definition
EDM core public transport route YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan Thomson: amendments to definition wording
EDM qualifying supermarket YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
EDM walking distance YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Education activity Y Y Y Y Y Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 1Annexure A and B (part 1) Council Closing Submissions Residential Hearing
Education facility Y Definition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson - defer until Stage 2
Elderly person's housing complexes Y Definition proposed by submission number863 (CIAL)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: add new definition
Elderly person's housing unit Y Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (Blair first statement of rebuttal, para 25.2; Transcript 20/04/15, page 1193 and 1210); Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson (reject changes suggested by submission number 745 Ryman Healthcare)
Electrical switch YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Electricity transmission network Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Emergency service facilities Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
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Entertainment Activity Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Entertainment facility Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Erection of a building Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Esplanade reserve YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
External sound insulation level Dtr, 2m, n Tw Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To correct the definition name to the correct technical term of Dtr,2m,nT,w+Ctr, while still flagging that it is also known as the external sound insulation level.
Family flat YDefinition proposed by submission number 863 (CIAL)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: new definition added (in response to submission number 863, CIAL)
Family store YDefinition proposed by submission number 422 (The Salvation Army)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: add new definition (in response to submission number 422, Salvation Army).
Farming and agricultural supplier Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson: delete definition
Fast Food Outlet YChapter 7 Transport Hearing - evidence in chief dated 26 May 2015 (in response to Strategic Directions Decision, Objective 3.3.2(c))
Filling YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Financial contribution YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Finer grain retailing Y Y
Chapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission numbers 310, Christchurch City Council; and 1134, Danne Mora Holdings)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Mark Stevenson: delete definition
Fixed minimum floor overlay YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Floor level and fill management area Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Food and beverage outlet Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Food court Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson: delete definition
Freeboard Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: amendments
Freight depot Y YDefinition proposed by submission number 863 (CIAL)Not accepted by Council - Mark Stevenson evidence Commercial / Industrial Hearing
Freight hub Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer: retain as notified
Frontage Y Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Front site Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
FSC certified hardwood YDefinition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson (defer consideration of definition until Stage 2 Residential chapter Hearings).
FTE Y Y Moved to abbreviation list at the beginning of Chapter 2
Full-time equivalent student Y YDefinition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer (in response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
Future development allotment Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Future development allotment - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Garage YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Garage - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Garden allotment Y Definition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: add new definition
Garden and patio supplier Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson: delete definition
GFA Y Y Y Y Y Moved to abbreviation list at the beginning of Chapter 2
GLFA Y Y Y Y Moved to abbreviation list at the beginning of Chapter 2
Greater Christchurch area of Christchurch District Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief: delete definition
Greenfield Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief: retain
Gross floor area (GFA) Y Y Y YChapter 7 Transport: Council Revised Proposal dated 14 May 2015Notes change as a result of Strategic Directions and Strategic Outcomes Hearings Panel Decision (Objective 3.3.2(c))
Gross floor area habitable space Y Y Definition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: add new definition
Gross leasable floor area Y Y YChapter 7 Transport - Council Revised Proposal dated 14 May 2015Notes change as a result of Strategic Directions and Strategic Outcomes Hearings Panel Decision (Objective 3.3.2(c))
Ground floor area YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Ground level Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
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Grout Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Andrew Long
Guest accommodation Y Y Y Y
Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission numbers 310 (FS1236, FS1427 and FS1359), Christchurch City Council; 863 (FS1453, FS1435 and FS1434), Christchurch International Airport Ltd (CIAL)).
Guest accommodation - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Gymnasium Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Habitable building Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: defer to Stage 2
Habitable space Y Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number 495, The Crown)
Hazard mitigation works Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: amendments
Hazardous facilityDefinition proposed by submission number 832 (Transpower NZ Ltd)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: defer to Stage 2 hearings
Health care facility Y Y Y Y Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (Blair first statement of rebuttal, para 25.2; Transcript 20/04/15, page 1193 and 1210); and Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F (Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To remove an inappropriate overlap with residential-based care for the elderly (which is a residential, not health-care, activity) and make it more clearly activities-based.)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: final wording
Heavy vehicle Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Height Y Y Y Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F (Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To exempt all radio and television aerials; standardise the format with respect to measurements; amend clause (c) so that it refers to the Stage 2 - specific updated zone names; resolve a conflict between clauses (a) and (d) with respect to chimneys; and to exempt the spires and towers of spiritual facilities (in lieu of operative plan rule 9.3.5.1) and sports facility-related floodlights not considered of a nature to generate adverse shading- related effects up to the specified height.); and Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission numbers 310 (FS1436 and FS1422), Christchurch City Council; 756, CPIT; 793, Church Property Trustees; and 922, Orion); and Definitions Hearing evidence in chief
Height - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Heightened risk YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Heritage YDefinition proposed by submission number 778 (Heritage NZ Pouhere Taonga)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Caroline Rachlin
High flood hazard YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
High technology industrial activity YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Home occupation YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Hospital Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Hotel YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Human scale YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Impervious surface YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson (note suggests defer to Stage 2 Hearings, but if to be dealt with under Definitions Hearing then seeks retain as notified).
Indigenous fauna
Definition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Agreement reached that the consideration of this definition be deferred and included in the Natural and Cultural Heritage ChapterDeferred to be considered with the Natural and Cultural Heritage proposal in Stage 3. Direction of the Hearings Panel dated 5 June 2015.
Indigenous vegetationDeferred to be considered with the Natural and Cultural Heritage proposal in Stage 3. Direction of the Hearings Panel dated 5 June 2015.
Indigenous vegetation clearance
Agreement reached that the consideration of this definition be deferred and included in the Natural and Cultural Heritage ChapterDeferred to be considered with the Natural and Cultural Heritage proposal in Stage 3. Direction of the Hearings Panel dated 5 June 2015.
Industrial activity Y Y Y Y Y Y
Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission numbers Rockgas Ltd #397 (FS1367) The Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust #704 (FS1363 and FS1334) Mobil Oil NZ, Z Energy Ltd and BP Oil NZ Ltd #723 Liquigas Limited #774 Higgins Contractors Ltd #827 (FS1379, FS1348 and FS1369) Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group (CAPG) #886 (FS1412, FS1445, FS1279, FS1445 and FS1357) Mobil Oil NZ Ltd #988 (FS1270) Gelita NZ #1014 (FS1379, FS1366 and FS1346))
Infrastructure YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Installed Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Insulation R value YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
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Interface YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Integrated health care facility YChapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number 495, The Crown)
Intersection Y YDefinition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer add new definition (in response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
Intolerable risk YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Kaitiaktanga Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete the definition
Key activity centres Y Y Y
Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 1 Chapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 amendments to definition wording (response to submission number 1156, Johns Road Horticultural; and addressing consistency)
Key activity centres - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Key pedestrian frontage Y YChapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 - the amendment sought is not considered appropriate and the relief is rejected (response to submission number 495, The Crown).
Key structuring elements Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Kotahitanga Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson delete definition
Landscaped area Y Y
Definition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Residential Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
Landscaping Y Y Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F (Notes reason for change in Stage 2: The Stage 1 definition (and the residential-specific amendment proposed via Council submission) is too broad, allowing for design elements that are not plant based when landscaping should be primarily about planting (although hardscaping can be important too, especially in higher density situations where 100% use of soft/plant based design may be impractical). The landscaping definition specific to commercial and industrial zones proposed via Council submission (proposed in Stage 2) makes it clear that the primary emphasis is on planting (while still allowing for alternatives where necessary).
Note: Mark Stevenson recommends two new definitions "Landscape area" and "Landscaping strip" (see next two tables below) but in evidence states - "suggested that the Panel reserve its decision on the merits of the definition of Landscaping pending consideration of the replacement proposed in Stage 2" (Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
Landscaping strip Y Y
Definition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
Lane way YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Large format centre YChapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council)
Large format / large format retail activity Y
Definition proposed by submission number 288 (Harvey Norman Ltd), and 310 (CCC)Chapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission numbers 310, Christchurch City Council; and 288, Harvey Norman)
Legally defined parcel of land Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Andrew Long: delete definition
Legibility YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Level crossing YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Life safety risk YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Light manufacturing and servicing Y YDefinition proposed by submission number 863 (CIAL)Not accepted by Council - Mark Stevenson evidence Commercial / Industrial Hearing
Limit line YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Liquefaction YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Living area Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Living space YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Loading Y YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer: retain as notified (in response to submission number 723, Oil Companies).
Loading area Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Loading space YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
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Local centre Y Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson: retain as notified
Local roads Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Lot Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Andrew Long: delete definition
Low impact urban design Y Y
Definition proposed by submission number 1145 (Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and TRONT)Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 1145 (FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1389, FS1422, FS1449, FS1451, FS1308.2, FS1322.6, FS1325.2, FS1429.1, FS1449.8, FS1256.3, FS1270.28, FS1283.8, FS1450.741, FS1349.32 and FS1352.106), Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu)
Mahinga kai YDefinition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Ivan Thomson and evidence in chief of Mark Stevenson: reject inclusion of definition
Main street YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Major arterial roads Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Major cycle route YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Major flood event YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Manaakitanga Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Manoeuvre area YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Manufacturing Y YDefinition proposed by submission number 863 (CIAL)Not accepted by Council - Mark Stevenson evidence Commercial / Industrial Hearing
Market garden YDefinition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: add new definition (in response to submission 310, Christchurch City Council).
Mass movement YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Master plan YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Matauranga Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Mauritanga Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Mechanical ventilation Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Mineral YDefinition proposed by submission number 886 (Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Adele Radburnd
Minimum floor levels YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Mineral extraction activity Y Definitions Hearing evidence: delete definition
Minor arterial roads YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Minor upgrade Y New definition proposed in a Council Memorandum dated 21 April 2015.Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter
Mixed modal link YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Mixed-use Y
Chapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310 (FS1352.81), Christchurch City Council; 495 (FS1420, FS1294, FS1270, FS1450 and FS1277), Crown; 775, Annex developments Ltd; 920, Waterloo Park Ltd).
Mobility parking space YChapter 7 Transport Hearing - Council Revised Proposal dated 14 May 2015Notes change as a result of Strategic Directions and Strategic Outcomes Hearings Panel Decision (Objective 3.3.2(c))
Modulation YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Motor-servicing facility YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Multi-unit residential complex YChapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number 495, The Crown)
National grid Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 1 (add new definition)
Natural hazard YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Natural hazard overlay amendment areas YDefinition proposed by submission number 970 (Tonkin & Taylor Ltd)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Natural surveillance YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Neighbourhood block area Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
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Neighbourhood block area - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Neighbourhood centre Y YChapter 15 Commercial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 705, Foodstuffs)
Neighbourhood plan YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Neighbourhood plan - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Net floor area Y Y
Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council))[Final wording for definition from this required]
Net site area Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Net site area - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Network infrastructure YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Network utility operation Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Network utility operator Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
New neighbourhood entry lot YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief Scott Blair: delete definition if not used in final version of plan.
New neighbourhood hectare Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
New neighbourhood hectare - (M.E.D) Y
Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Comment added 15/5/15: note review by Ben Baird of amended decision released comments that this definition is not used in the text or is not relied or is not related to a definition used in the text
New neighbourhood net density YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
New neighbourhood net density - (M.E.D) YDefinition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
New neighbourhood residential unit types Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
New neighbourhood target yield Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
New urban zonings YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Ngai Tahu / Manawhenua Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
No complaints covenant YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Non residential Definition proposed by submission number 676 (Integrated State Schools)
Noxious or offensive activity Y
Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission numbers 310, Christchurch City Council; 686, Silver fern Farms Ltd; 766 (FS1379 and FS1379), Tegel Foods Ltd; 772 (FS1398), Lowe Corp and Colyer Mair Assets Ltd; 1014 (FS1379, FS1346 and FS1348), Gelita NZ); and Rebuttal Evidence of Mark Stevenson dated 4 May 2015 (response to submission number 774, Liquigas)
Occupied residential propertyDefinition proposed by submission number 342 (Environment Canterbury)To be addressed in Ch 6A, 6B, 6C
Office Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Office furniture, equipment and systems suppliers Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson: delete definition
One network approach YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Orangatanga Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Outdoor advertisement Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Outdoor living space Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Outdoor living space - (M.E.D.) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Outdoor room
Definition proposed by submission number 160 (Grant Miles), and 1142 (ADNZ Canterbury/Westland Region)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: reject inclusion of definition
Outdoor service space YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Outdoor storage area Y Y YChapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council)
Outline development plan Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Park and ride facilities Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer: retain as notified
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Parking area Y Y Y YChapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (Rebuttal Evidence of Mr Blair para 33.9, page 40 and para 37.1 page 43)
Parking building Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Parking lot Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Parking space Y YDefinition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer add new definition (in response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
Paved impermeable surface Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Pedestrian access way YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Peripheral boundary length YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: Delete if not used in final version on the plan.
PFA Y Y Y Moved to abbreviation list at the beginning of Chapter 2
Place of assembly Y Y Y
Chapter 14 - Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A; and Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F (Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To improve grammar and alignment of the definition with other relevant definitions.)
Plot ratio YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Point strip Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Andrew Long: delete definition
Pool area YChapter 7 Transport Hearing - Council Revised Proposal dated 14 May 2015Notes change as a result of Strategic Directions and Strategic Outcomes Hearings Panel Decision (Objective 3.3.2(c))
Port activities YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief Deborah Hogan (in response to submission number915, Lyttelton Port Company; 723, Mobil Oil NZ, Z Energy Ltd and BP Oil NZ; and further submissions: 1270 and 1444).
Portable water YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Pre-school Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Chapter 14 - Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F (Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To standardise, in conjunction with the introduction of Pre-school facility, the name and content with that of other definitions (e.g. Recreation activity and Recreation facility) which recognise that the activity can occur independent of a building; provide for community activities that occur in schools; make more consistent with Ministry of Education terminology (to make clear that 'early childhood' and 'pre-school' mean the same thing); and delete that part (the last sentence) included in the Pre- school facility definition); and Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 495 (FS1420, FS1294, FS1270), The Crown). Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson - final Council position
Pressurised injection YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Primary living level YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Principal building Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Private car park YChapter 7 Transport - Council Revised Proposal dated 14 May 2015Notes change as a result of Strategic Directions and Strategic Outcomes Hearings Panel Decision (Objective 3.3.2(c))
Private wayDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain definition as notified
Public area Y Y
Definition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council)
Public art work Y YChapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council)
Public floor area Y YChapter 7 Transport - Council Revised Proposal dated 14 May 2015Notes addresses submission #388 McDonalds Restaurants NZ Ltd.
Publicly accessible space YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Public transport facility Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Public transport interchange Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Queuing space Y Y Definition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer: add new definition
Radiocommunications YDefinition proposed by submission number 596 (Radio NZ Ltd)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Andrew Long: accept inclusion of definition
Rail siding Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer: retain as notified
Rangatiratanga Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Rear site Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
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Recreation activity Y YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief of Mark Stevenson: retain as notified (in response to submission number 733 Viatcheslav Meyn). (suggest reconsidering as part of Stage 2 Hearings)
Recreation facility Y YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified (in response to submission number 733, Meyn).
Regionally significant activities
Definition proposed by submission number 886 (Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: reject inclusion of definition
Relocatable building Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Relocated buildingDefinition proposed by submission number 932 (House Movers)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: defer
Relocation of a building Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Removal of a buildingDefinition proposed by submission number 932 (House Movers)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: defer
Repair and maintenance Y YDefinition proposed by submission number 863 (CIAL)Not accepted by Council - Mark Stevenson evidence Commercial / Industrial Hearing
Reserve Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Residential activity Y Y Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (Cross examinationof Mr Blair, Transcript page 267 lines 32 - 45; response to submission number 495, The Crown; Supplementary Evidence of Mr Blair Topic 2)
Residential activity - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Residential allotmentDefinition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: reject inclusion of definition
Residential amenity Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson: delete definition
Residential building platform YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: retain as notified with amendment
Residential thoroughfare YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Residential unit Y Y Y Y YChapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number 893, Grimshaw; Agreed in the third rebuttal of Mr Blair paragraphs 3.1 - 3.5)
Residential unit - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Resiting of a buildingDefinition proposed by submission number 932 (House Movers)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: defer
Restaurant
Retail activity Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Retailing Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Retirement village Y Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (Blair first statement of rebuttal, para 25.1; Transcript 20/04/15, page 1193)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as per changes in Chapter 14 Hearing
Reverse sensitivity Y Y Y
Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 1 Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 596, Radio NZ Ltd; 832 (FS1339 and FS1339), Transpower NZ Ltd; 1014 (FS1379, FS1346 and FS1369), Gelita NZ).
Right-of-way
Right turn offset YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Road Y Y Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Road boundary Y Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Road reserve
Roadway
Rock fall YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Rural produce Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Rural roads YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Rural selling place YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Scale and form YDefinition proposed by submission number 340 (Akaroa Civic Trust)Not accepted by Council - Mark Stevenson evidence Commercial / Industrial Hearing
Second-hand goods outlet Y YChapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council)
Sense of place YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
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Sensitive activities Y Y Y Y Y
Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F (Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To define sensitive activities with respect to hazardous substances; and align the definition with Stage 2's Pre-school facility and the absence of a Family flat definition (no longer necessary as the result of LURP actions)); and Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council; 495 (FS1420, FS1294, FS1270, FS 1444, FS1295, FS 1339 and FS1359), The Crown; 774, Liquigas Ltd; 832 (FS1339 and FS1339), Transpower NZ Ltd; 863 (FS1453, FS1435, FS1434, FS1315, FS1314, FS1351 and FS1357), CIAL; 897 (FS1444, 1277 and FS1359), KiwiRail; 915, Lyttelton Port Company; 922, Orion NZ; 1014 (FS1379, FS1346 and FS1450), Gelita NZ). Final wording in accordance with that put forward in Council closing submissions Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial (addressed in evidence in chief Mark Stevenson Definitions Hearing)
Service industry YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Service lane Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Service station Y Y Y Y
Chapter 14 - Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number 723 (evidence of Karen Blair)); and Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 397, Rockgas Ltd; 723, Mobil NZ Ltd, Z Energy Ltd and BP Oil NZ Ltd; 988 (FS1270), Mobil Oil NZ Ltd).
Setback Y Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Setback - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Sheltered housing YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Sheltered housing - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Show home Y
Definition proposed by submission number 301 (CCC)Chapter 14 Residential - Addressing submission (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council)(Post Hearing and Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A)(Note: is also used in Stage 2 Chapter 14 Residential. Acceptance of wording for new definition as per submission agreed with this Chapter Lead Sarah Oliver); Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson
Significant indigenous vegetation Y Deferred to be considered with the Natural and Cultural Heritage proposal in Stage 3. Direction of the Hearings Panel dated 5 June 2015.
Significantly damaged YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Significant natural hazard YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Site Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson
Site boundary Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Site of Ngai Tahu cultural significanceDefinition proposed by submission number 1145 (Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and TRONT)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Caroline Rachlin: defer until Stage 3
Sleep-out YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Slope stability YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Social housing Y Y Chapter 14 Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number 495, The Crown)
Spiritual activity Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson: add a new definition
Spiritual facility Y Y Y
Chapter 14 residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F (Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To standardise, in conjunction with the introduction of a differently worded Spiritual facility definition, the name and content with that of other definitions (e.g. Recreation activity and Recreation facility) which recognise that the activity can occur independent of a building); and Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission numbers 656, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch; 752 (FS1463), Alpine Presbytery; 763, Methodist Church of NZ; and 793, Church Property Trustees) Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson (final wording)
Spring
Chapter 8 - Subdivision, Development and Earthworks Council Revised Proposal dated 18 May 2015 and Hearing - evidence in chief dated 21 May 2015(both note in response to submission numbers #1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Rununga O Ngai Tahu (page 27); and #495 The Crown (page 154)
Standalone house Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Standalone house - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Strategic infrastructure Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 1 (amend definition)
Strategic road network Y The Crown withdrew submission; retain as notified (David Falconer)
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Strategic transport networks Y Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 1 (amend definition)
Student hostel accommodation YChapter 7 Transport - Council Revised Proposal dated 14 May 2015Notes change as a result of Strategic Directions and Strategic Outcomes Hearings Panel Decision (Objective 3.3.2(c))
Subdivision Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Subdivision - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Supermarket Y Y
Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310 (FS1324, FS1352 and FS 1270), Christchurch City Council; 705 (FS1270 and FS1450), Foodstuffs South Island Ltd and Foodstuffs (South Island) properties Ltd; 742 (FS1450 and FS1349), Scentre New Zealand Ltd; 761 FS1450), Kiwi Income property Trust; 790 (FS1359), Progressive Enterprises Ltd; 863 (FS1453, FS1435 and FS1434), CIAL).
Supportive housing Y Definition proposed by submission number 422 (The Salvation Army)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: add new definition
Surface water management structure Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Tavern Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief
Temporary buildings and activities YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Terrace Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: retain as notified
Terrace - (M.E.D) Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 4 (add new definition)
Tertiary education and research activity Y Y YChapter 14 - Residential Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F (Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To standardise the format with that of similarly opening definitions).
Theatre YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Tolerable level YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Tolerable risk YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Trade and industry training facility Y YChapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 756 (FS1359), CPIT).
Trade supplier Y Y Y YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief Adele Radburmd (in response to submission number 886, CAPG).
Transmission line YDefinition proposed by submission number 832 (Transpower NZ Ltd)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Andrew Long: accept inclusion of definition
Transport system Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Travel demand management YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Travel plan YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Tsunami inundation area YDefinition proposed by submission number 310 (CCC)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Turangawaewae Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Unacceptable risk YDefinition proposed by submission number 495 (CERA)Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Janice Carter: reject inclusion of definition
Urban activities Y Definition decided on as part of Priority Matter 1
Urban roads YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Utility Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Vehicle access Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Vehicle control point Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer: retain as notified
Vehicle crossing Y Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Vehicle movement YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Vehicle trip YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Veterinary care facility YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Visibility splay Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Wahi taonga Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Wahi tapu Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Waipuna Y Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
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Wairuatanga Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Warehousing and distribution activities Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Warehouse and distribution activities Y YDefinition proposed by submission number 863 (CIAL)Not accepted by Council - Mark Stevenson evidence Commercial / Industrial Hearing
Waste management area Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Water body Y YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
WELS Y Y Moved to abbreviations list at beginning of Chapter 2
Wetland Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief
Whanaungatanga Y Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Ivan Thomson: delete definition
Window Y No changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Window control YNo changes to definition wording as a result of decisions, Hearings, Council evidence and / or Council mediation versions
Work bay YDefinitions Hearing - evidence in chief David Falconer amendments to definition wording (in response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
Workers' temporary accommodation complexDefinition proposed by submission number 342 (Environment Canterbury)To be addressed in Ch 6A, 6B, 6C
Workers' temporary accommodation unitDefinition proposed by submission number 342 (Environment Canterbury)To be addressed in Ch 6A, 6B, 6C
Yard-based supplier Y Y Y
Chapter 7 Transport - Council Revised Proposal dated 14 May 2015 (Notes addresses submission #310 Christchurch City Council); and Chapter 15 Commercial and Chapter 16 Industrial Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
Yard-based supplier parking YChapter 7 Transport - Council Revised Proposal dated 14 May 2015Notes addresses submission #310 Christchurch City Council.
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Appendix 4: Remaining definitions, Submitter definitions, expert witnesses
dealing with them and the Council position on them
Remaining
definitions/Submitter
definitions
Expert witness Council position
Chapter 3: Strategic Directions
Christchurch District Ivan Thomson Retain
Electricity transmission
network
Ivan Thomson Delete
Greater Christchurch area
of Christchurch District
Ivan Thomson Delete
Greenfield Ivan Thomson Retain
Chapter 5: Natural Hazards
1 in 20 year tidal event
(5% AEP)
Janice Carter Don't add
1 in 200 year rainfall event
(0.5% AEP)
Janice Carter Don't add
Acceptable level Janice Carter Don't add
Acceptable risk Janice Carter Don't add
Annual individual fatality
risk
Janice Carter Retain
Boulder roll Janice Carter Don't add
Building consent platform Andrew Long Delete
Christchurch City Council
Datum
Janice Carter Retain
Cliff collapse Janice Carter Don't add
Cliff hazard management
area 1
Janice Carter Don't add
Cliff hazard management
area 2
Janice Carter Don't add
Dripline Andrew Long Retain
Fixed minimum floor
overlay within floor level
and fill management area
Janice Carter Don't add
Ivan Thomson - Definitions Overviewpage 57 of 237
Remaining
definitions/Submitter
definitions
Expert witness Council position
Flood ponding Janice Carter Don't add
Freeboard Janice Carter Retain
Fixed minimum floor
overlay
Janice Carter Don't add
Grout Andrew Long Retain
Habitable building Janice Carter Defer consideration to
Stage 3's General Rules
and Procedures Proposal
Hazard mitigation works Janice Carter Amend
Heightened risk Janice Carter Don't add
Intolerable risk Janice Carter Don't add
Life safety risk Janice Carter Don't add
Liquefaction Janice Carter Don't add
Liquefaction assessment
area 1
Janice Carter Don't add
Liquefaction assessment
area 2
Janice Carter Don't add
Mass movement Janice Carter Don't add
Mass movement hazard
management area 1
Janice Carter Don't add
Mass movement hazard
management area 1
Janice Carter Don't add
Minimum floor levels Janice Carter Don't add
Natural hazards Janice Carter Don't add
Remainder of Port Hills
and Banks Peninsula
slope instability
management area
Janice Carter Don't add
Residential building
platform
Janice Carter Amend
Rock fall Janice Carter Don't add
Ivan Thomson - Definitions Overviewpage 58 of 237
Remaining
definitions/Submitter
definitions
Expert witness Council position
Significantly damaged Janice Carter Don't add
Significant natural hazard Janice Carter Don't add
Slope instability Janice Carter Don't add
Tolerable level Janice Carter Don't add
Tolerable risk Janice Carter Don't add
Tsunami inundation area Janice Carter Don't add
Unacceptable risk Janice Carter Don't add
Waimakariri River
floodplain high flood
hazard
Janice Carter Don't add
Waimakariri River
stopbank floodplain
Janice Carter Don't add
Waimakariri River
stopbank setback
Janice Carter Don't add
Chapter 7: Transport
Accessible David Falconer Amend and add
Active transport David Falconer Retain
Automotive and/or marine
supplier
David Falconer Retain
Available (parking) David Falconer Don't add
Building supplier Adele Radburnd Retain (along with Building
supplier)
Farming and agricultural
supplier
Mark Stevenson Delete
Freight depot David Falconer Don't add
Freight hub David Falconer Retain
Full-time equivalent
student
David Falconer Add
Garden and patio supplier Mark Stevenson Delete
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Remaining
definitions/Submitter
definitions
Expert witness Council position
Intersection David Falconer Add
Office furniture, equipment
and systems suppliers
Mark Stevenson Delete
Park and ride facilities David Falconer Retain
Parking space David Falconer Amend and add
Queuing space David Falconer Amend and add
Rail siding David Falconer Retain
Rural produce Ivan Thomson Retain
Tertiary education student David Falconer Don't add
Tertiary education student
accommodation
David Falconer Don't add
Vehicle control point David Falconer Retain
Work bay David Falconer Amend
Chapter 8: Subdivision, Development and Earthworks
Accidental discovery
protocol
Andrew Long Amend and add
Approved building Andrew Long Retain
Cultural heritage Caroline Rachlin Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Natural and
Cultural Heritage Proposal
Cultural heritage sites Caroline Rachlin Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Natural and
Cultural Heritage Proposal
Development contribution Andrew Long Retain
Earthworks Andrew Long Amend
Erection of a building Andrew Long Retain
Heritage Caroline Rachlin Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Natural and
Cultural Heritage Proposal
Indigenous fauna N/A Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Natural and
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Remaining
definitions/Submitter
definitions
Expert witness Council position
Cultural Heritage
Proposal, as per Panel
Minute dated 5 June 2015
Indigenous vegetation N/A Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Natural and
Cultural Heritage
Proposal, as per Panel
Minute dated 5 June 2015
Indigenous vegetation
clearance
N/A Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Natural and
Cultural Heritage
Proposal, as per Panel
Minute dated 5 June 2015
Legally defined parcel of
land
Andrew Long Delete
Lot Andrew Long Delete
Network utility operation Andrew Long Delete
Point strip Andrew Long Delete
Private way Andrew Long Retain
Radiocommunications Andrew Long Add
Right-of-way Andrew Long Retain
Road reserve Andrew Long Retain
Roadway Andrew Long Amend
Site of Ngāi Tahu cultural
significance
Caroline Rachlin Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Natural and
Cultural Heritage Proposal
Transmission line Andrew Long Add
Chapter 12: Hazardous Substances and Contaminated Land
Contaminated land Ivan Thomson Retain
Hazardous facility Ivan Thomson Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Hazardous
Substances and
Contaminated Land and
Utilities and Energy
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Remaining
definitions/Submitter
definitions
Expert witness Council position
Proposals
Chapter 14: Residential
Addiction services Ivan Thomson Amend and add
Apartment Ivan Thomson Retain
Boarding house Ivan Thomson Add
Boarding room Ivan Thomson Add
Building line restriction Ivan Thomson Retain
Café Mark Stevenson Amend
Care home Ivan Thomson Amend and add
Christchurch District
excluding Banks Peninsula
Ward
Andrew Long Retain
Community garden Ivan Thomson Add
Duplex Ivan Thomson Retain
EDM Ivan Thomson Retain but relocate to
Abbreviations section of
renamed Abbreviations
and Definitions Chapter
EDM core public transport
route
Ivan Thomson Amend
Education facility Ivan Thomson Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Specific Purpose
Areas Proposal
Elderly person's housing
complexes
Ivan Thomson Don't add
Family flats Ivan Thomson Add
Family store Ivan Thomson Amend and add
Front site Ivan Thomson Retain
FSC certified hardwood Ivan Thomson Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Residential
Proposal
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Remaining
definitions/Submitter
definitions
Expert witness Council position
Future development
allotment
Ivan Thomson If Rule 8.4.2.1 is deleted,
delete. If Rule 8.4.2.1 is
retained, retain.
Garden allotment Ivan Thomson Add
Gross floor area habitable
space
Ivan Thomson Amend and add
Impervious surfaces Ivan Thomson Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Residential
Proposal
Kaitiakitanga Ivan Thomson Delete
Kotahitanga Ivan Thomson Delete
Landscaped area Mark Stevenson Add
Landscaping strip Mark Stevenson Add
Loading David Falconer Retain
Manaakitanga Ivan Thomson Delete
Market garden Ivan Thomson Add
Mātauratanga Ivan Thomson Delete
Mauritanga Ivan Thomson Delete
Mechanical ventilation Ivan Thomson Retain
Neighbourhood block area Ivan Thomson Delete
New neighbourhood entry
lot
Ivan Thomson Delete
New neighbourhood
hectare
Ivan Thomson Delete
New neighbourhood
residential unit types
Ivan Thomson Delete
New neighbourhood target
yield
Ivan Thomson Delete
New urban zonings Janice Carter Don't add
Non-residential activity Ivan Thomson Don't add
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Remaining
definitions/Submitter
definitions
Expert witness Council position
Orangatanga Ivan Thomson Delete
Outdoor room Ivan Thomson Don't add
Paved impermeable
surface
Ivan Thomson Delete
Peripheral boundary
length
Ivan Thomson If Rule 8.2.4.5 is deleted,
delete. If Rule 8.2.4.5 is
retained, retain.
Principal building Ivan Thomson Retain
Rangitiratanga Ivan Thomson Delete
Relocated building Ivan Thomson Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Residential
Proposal
Removal of a building Ivan Thomson Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Residential
Proposal
Residential allotment Ivan Thomson Don't add
Residential business Ivan Thomson Don't add
Resiting of a building Ivan Thomson Defer consideration to
Stage 3's Residential
Proposal
Show home Ivan Thomson Add
Standalone house Ivan Thomson Retain
Supportive housing Ivan Thomson Amend and add
Terrace Ivan Thomson Retain
Wairuatanga Ivan Thomson Delete
Whanaungatanga Ivan Thomson Delete
Chapter 15: Commercial
Alcohol licence Mark Stevenson Delete
Articulation Mark Stevenson Retain
Banks Peninsula Ivan Thomson Retain
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Remaining
definitions/Submitter
definitions
Expert witness Council position
Coverage Mark Stevenson Add
Food court Mark Stevenson Delete
Large format retail/large
format retail activity
Mark Stevenson Add
Low impact urban design Mark Stevenson Add
Port activities Debbie Hogan Amend
Public area Mark Stevenson Add
Recreation activity Mark Stevenson Defer consideration to
Stage 2's Rural Proposal
Recreation facility Ivan Thomson Retain
Residential amenity Mark Stevenson Delete
Scale and form Mark Stevenson Don't add
Chapter 16: Industrial
Ancillary/Ancillary activity Mark Stevenson Amend and add
Ancillary showroom
activity
Mark Stevenson Don't add
Birdstrike Mark Stevenson Retain
Birdstrike risk activities Mark Stevenson Don't add
Clean fill Adele Radburnd Don't add
Light manufacturing and
servicing
Mark Stevenson Don't add
Mahinga kai Mark Stevenson Don't add
Manufacturing Mark Stevenson Don't add
Mineral Adele Radburnd Don't add
Mineral extraction activity Adele Radburnd Delete
Regionally significant
activities
Adele Radburnd Don't add
Repair and maintenance Mark Stevenson Don't add
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Remaining
definitions/Submitter
definitions
Expert witness Council position
Tavern Mark Stevenson Retain
Warehouse and
distribution activities
Mark Stevenson Don't add
Wetland Mark Stevenson Retain
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Submitter No.
Last name Submission point number
Support/ Oppose
Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
General Introductory note 2 General
832 Transpower New Zealand Limited 832.9 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the “Definitions List” explanation to include the following: “2. Where a word or phrase is defined in NZ government legislation, policy or regulations (such as the National Policy Statements and National Environmental Standards) and is relied upon for the purpose of interpretation in this Plan, these terms are identified accordingly and quoted for information purposes only. These definitions were current at the time of the notification of the Plan. Users should refer to the latest version of the relevant legislation.”
General Oppose Stage 1 definitions in absence of Stage 2 rules/reserve right to revisit during Stage 2 General
377 Maurice R Carter Limited 377.1 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission. MRC wishes to reserve the right to revisit the definitions proposed in Phase I of the Review, should it become apparent that they are of direct relevance to rules affecting MRC during Phase II of the review. FS1334.1
827 Higgins Contractors Ltd 827.3 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
That no decisions be issued regarding definitions until such time as submissions on Phase 2 of the Replacement Plan have been heard; or other and consequential relief or further amendments as are considered appropriate and necessary by the hearings panel to address the concerns set out herein. FS1375.13, FS1334.11, FS1334.12 and FS1316.5
922 Orion New Zealand 922.4 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Notwithstanding the submissions on definitions above, we seek the following alterative relief: Refrain from making a decision on the definitions as part of Phase One, and include Chapter 2 as part of the notification, submission and hearing process associated with Phase Two.
General Ensure that the proposed definitions give effect to the relief sought General
377 Maurice R Carter Limited 377.12 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
378 Marriner Investments Limited 378.2 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
379 Avonhead Mall Limited 379.2 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
380 Marriner Investments No 1 Limited 380.2 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
381 Oakvale Farm Limited 381.2 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
381 Oakvale Farm Limited 381.64 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
385 Maurice Carter Charitable Trust 385.1 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of
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Submitter No.
Last name Submission point number
Support/ Oppose
Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
Definitions this submission.
386 Carter Group Limited 386.2 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.62 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
The Crown seeks the following decisions: (a) amend Proposal 2 to provide usable and clear definitions; (b) such other relief necessary to give effect to the relief sought in Part A of this submission; and (c) any additional or alternative relief that achieves the same or similar outcomes to the above. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1270.1
814 AMP Capital Palms Pty Limited 814.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Palms seeks to ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission. FS1376
1078 Peebles Family Trust 1078.1 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
1079 Taylor Space Investments Ltd 1079.2 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
1079 Taylor Space Investments Ltd 1079.13 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
1079 Taylor Space Investments Ltd 1079.32 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
1081 880 Main North Road Limited 1081.2 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission. FS1345
1084 484 Cranford Limited 1084.2 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
1086 7990 Limited 1086.2 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
1195 Peebles Group Ltd 1195.2 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Ensure that the Definitions in the Proposal give effect to the relief sought in the balance of this submission.
General Natural hazard-related definitions General
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.78 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List
Oppose all undefined terms. Define all technical terminology in the Natural Hazards proposal.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1332.5, FS1361.8, FS1295.63 and FS1375.1
A A
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.79 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List
Oppose undefined key terms - Acceptable level.
Amend such that either definitions of key terms (unacceptable, intolerable, acceptable, significant, serious, etc) are provided, or a framework for determining these levels of risk is produced to provide certainty and clarity (see reasons). Any framework should clearly state:
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Submitter No.
Last name Submission point number
Support/ Oppose
Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
- the likelihood of the hazard occurring; - the significance of consequences; and - the differentiation between risk to life and risk of damage to property and infrastructure.
Ensure that consistent terminology is applied.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1443.159, FS1443.159, FS1375.2, FS1450.304, FS1265.2, FS1332.6 and FS1361.9
310 Christchurch City Council 310.1 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.1-A
Add the following definition and reliant definitions: Accessible (see Accessibility) Reliant definitions Accessibility Add Accessible to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate (including all definitions that include ‘accessibility’). FS1347.1 and FS1443.139
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1195 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.1-A
'Accidental Discovery Protocol' Provide a link to the supporting guidance - Accidental Discovery Protocol and briefly state what guidance is provided by this protocol in regards to procedures for taonga or koiwi burial sites, or Maori archaeological sites. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1365.6
422 The Salvation Army 422.6 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.4-D
Add the following to the definition of Addiction Services: services including overnight accommodation while attending an addiction counselling programme, short term accommodation for alcohol, drugs or gambling addiction clients.
738 Ilam and Upper Riccarton Residents Association
738.2 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the definition of 'ancillary' such that it is clear that for an activity to be ancillary it has to occur on that site. FS1436.6 and FS1442.6
1028 Carter 1028.1 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.1-A
Amend ANCILLARY ACTIVITY Ancillary activity means any activity that is incidental to a permitted or consented activity on the same site and which forms an inseparable part of the principal or main activity on the site. FS1436.18, FS1442.1 and FS1375.14
776 Bellavista Property Consultants 776.3 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.1-
Add the following new definition: Ancillary showroom activity: means any showroom activity that is incidental to a permitted or consented activity on the same site and which forms an inseparable part of the business occupying the site.
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Submitter No.
Last name Submission point number
Support/ Oppose
Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
A Reliant Definition: Site
738 Ilam and Upper Riccarton Residents Association
738.8 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List
Add a definition for Available (Parking) that states: 'means free of charge to those for whom the car parks are supplied in accordance with District Plan requirements.' FS1436.12 and FS1442.12
B B
863 Christchurch International Airport Limited
863.19 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.2-B
Retain the definition of ‘bird strike’. FS 1453, FS1435, FS1434, FS1313.1 and FS1334.15
863 Christchurch International Airport Limited
863.20 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.2-B
Add a new definition of Bird Strike Risk Activities as meaning: Within 13 kilometres of Christchurch International Airport includes, but is not limited to, the creation, design and management of water features, stormwater management systems, the establishment of refuse dumps, landfills, sewage treatment and disposal, pig farming, fish processing, cattle feed lots, wildlife refuges, abattoirs and freezing works, and any other activities that have the potential to attract dangerous bird species. FS 1453, FS1435, FS1434, FS1240.19, FS1313.2, FS1351.39, FS1448.4 and FS1313.3
863 Christchurch International Airport Limited
863.111 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.2-B
Add the following to the definition of bird strike risk activities. Includes, but is not limited to, the creation, design and management of water features, stormwater management systems, the establishment of refuse dumps, landfills, sewage treatment and disposal, pig farming, fish processing, cattle feed lots, wildlife refuges, abattoirs and freezing works, and any other activities that have the potential to attract numbers of dangerous bird species within 13 kilometres of Christchurch International Airport. FS1453, FS1435, FS1434, FS1351.42, FS1354.4, FS1313.9, FS1240.20 and FS1448.6
738 Ilam and Upper Riccarton Residents Association
738.6 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Add a definition for 'Boarding House' which states: 'means residential premises- a) containing 1 or more boarding rooms along with facilities for communal use by the residents of the boarding house; and b) occupied, or intended by the landlord to be occupied by at least 4 people at any one time.' FS1436.10 and FS1442.10
738 Ilam and Upper Riccarton Residents Association
738.7 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Add a definition for 'Boarding Room' stating: 'means a room in a boarding house that is used as sleeping quarters by 1 or more people, and that is for use only by a resident whose agreement relates to that room.' FS1436.11 and FS1442.11
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Submitter No.
Last name Submission point number
Support/ Oppose
Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1188 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Amend the Natural hazards proposal by bringing descriptions of the different types of hazards (Boulder roll) and how they are determined/defined from the section 32 report to the definitions and seek additional guidance from MBIE and GNS Science technical guidance if the definitions are not complete. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1375.6
725 Bunnings Limited 725.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the definition of ‘Building Supplier’ so that it means a business primarily engaged in selling goods for consumption or use in the construction, modification, cladding, fixed decoration or outfitting of buildings and without limiting the generality of this term, includes: a. glaziers; b. locksmiths; and c. suppliers of: awnings and window coverings; bathroom, toilet and sauna installations; electrical materials and plumbing supplies; heating, cooling and ventilation installations; kitchen and laundry installations, excluding standalone appliances; paint, varnish and wall coverings; permanent floor coverings; power tools and equipment; safes and security installations; and timber and building materials.; and any other goods allowed by any other definition under ‘trade supplier’.
886 Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group
886.2 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.2-B
Delete the definition of Building Supplier unless the CCC can confirm that the definition does not have any adverse impact on CAPG’s activities as a result of plan provisions introduced at Stage 2. FS1412, FS1445, FS1279.2 and FS1447.83
C C
775 Annex Developments Limited 775.9 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.3-C
Amend the definition of ‘Cafe' as highlighted below: Café – means a small food and beverage outlet that primarily provides breakfast, lunch and snack foods and drinks for sale. A café does not include a restaurant.
920 Waterloo Park Limited 920.4 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.3-C
As first relief delete the definition of 'cafe' as unnecessary. As an alternative secondary relief, amend the definition as follows: Cafe- means a small food and beverage outlet that provides breakfast, lunch, light meals, and snack foods and drinks for sale. A cafe does not include a restaurant.
573 Retirement Village Association of New Zealand Inc.
573.1 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.3-
Definition Relief Sought Rationale
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Submitter No.
Last name Submission point number
Support/ Oppose
Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
C 'Care Home' Amend as follows: Care Home: means a facility providing rest home care within the meaning of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001, or a home for the residential care of people with special needs, and/or any land or buildings used for the care during the day of elderly persons or people with special needs.
The restriction to day time operation of such facilities is inappropriate and unjustified. It is also uncertain.
FS 1235.2 and FS1358.1 (supports 573 in entirety)
755 Bupa Care Services 755.2 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.8-H
Rationalising the definitions to provide for care home level of care under a single definition. FS1443.18, FS1385.2 and FS1269.12
886 Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group
886.3 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.3-C
Include a definition of Clean fill as follows: Clean fill means material that when buried will have no adverse effect on people or the environment. Clean fill material includes virgin natural materials such as clay, soil and rock, and other inert materials such as concrete or brick that are free of: a. Combustible, decaying, degradable or leachable components; and/or b. Hazardous substances; and/or c. Products or materials derived from hazardous waste treatment, hazardous waste stabilisation or hazardous waste disposal practice; and/or d. Materials that may present a risk to human or animal health such as medical and veterinary waste, asbestos or radioactive substances; and/or e. liquid waste. FS1412, FS1445, FS1445.4, FS1316.8, FS1357.8 and FS1279.3
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1188 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Amend the Natural hazards proposal by bringing descriptions of the different types of hazards (Cliff collapse) and how they are determined/defined from the section 32 report to the definitions and seek additional guidance from MBIE and GNS Science technical guidance if the definitions are not complete. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1375.6
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Cliff Hazard Management Area 1. FS1273.33
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in
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Definitions Chapter 5 for Cliff Hazard Management Area 2. FS1273.33
310 Christchurch City Council 310.19 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.3-C
Add the following definition and reliant and related definitions: Community garden means a single contiguous piece of land used collectively by a group of people, whose members are from more than one household, for growing fruit, vegetables and flowers, which are not sold to consumers (including restaurants). Reliant definitions Restaurant Related definitions Garden allotment Market garden
310 Christchurch City Council 310.2 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.3-C
Add the following definition and reliant and related definitions: Coverage means that portion of a site which is covered by buildings, including accessory buildings, and the area protected by the eaves of buildings. Reliant definitions Accessory building Building Site Related definitions Building line restriction Add Coverage to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate.
778 Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga
778.6 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.8-H
Heritage New Zealand seeks that the plan provides a definition for 'cultural heritage' in order to provide certainty to users of the plan. And any other consequential changes that may be required for consistency throughout the proposed plan.
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778 Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga
778.17 2-Chapter 2 Definitions >2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.3-C
A definition is provided for 'Cultural heritage sites'. D
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932 House Movers 932.5 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the definitions section so it provides for the demolition of buildings as a permitted activity in all areas and zones, except in relation to any scheduled identified heritage buildings, or any properly established conservation heritage precinct.
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310 Christchurch City Council 310.23 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.5-E
Amend the definition and reliant definitions as follows: Earthworks means any excavation, depositing or other disturbance of earth, rock or soil on a site, including that which raises ground level or changes the profile of the landform, and that which involves the inclusion or insertion of other materials into the ground for the purposes of repairing a site damaged by earthquakes or strengthening a site in preparation for the construction of a building, or the installation of services or utilities. Earthworks include, but are not limited to, the construction of roads, tracks, firebreaks and landings, and ground shaping (recontouring), root raking and blading. Reliant definitions Building Ground level Road Site Utility
827 Higgins Contractors Ltd 827.6 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.13-M
Definition - Earthworks: The submitter opposes the current definitions of all such terms and seeks they be deleted; or other and consequential relief or further amendments as are considered appropriate and necessary by the hearings panel to address the concerns set out herein. FS1316.6
863 Christchurch International Airport Limited
863.114 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.5-E
Amend Elderly persons housing complexes. Add the following: Elderly persons housing complexes’ means a group of elderly persons housing units, which may, in addition, include a care home and/or associated studio units for the care and accommodation of elderly persons. FS1453, FS1435 and FS1434
832 Transpower New Zealand Limited 832.11 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.5-E
Retain the definition of “electricity transmission network” as notified.
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863 Christchurch International Airport Limited
863.115 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.6-F
Amend Family Flats. Add the following: ‘Family flats’ means self contained living accommodation, whether contained within a residential unit or located separately to a residential unit on the same site, which is occupied by family member(s) who are dependant in some way on the household living in that residential unit; and which is encumbered by an appropriate legal instrument which ensures that the use of the family flat is limited to dependant family members of the household living in the residential unit. FS1453, FS1435 and FS1434
422 The Salvation Army 422.8 2-Chapter 2 Definitions >
Add the following to the definition of Family Store:
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2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.6-F
sale of second hand items donated for that purpose for non-profit organisations only.
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1191 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.6-F
Define the following flood hazard and mitigation terminology: “Fixed Minimum Floor Overlay” FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1365.2, FS1264.3, FS1295.68 and FS1450.306
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Flood Minimum Floor Overlay with Floor Level and Fill Management Area. FS1273.33
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Flood Ponding. FS1273.33
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1192 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.6-F
Amend the definition for Freeboard to include justification for why the level of Freeboard chosen in the mapping of Floor Level and Fill Management Areas is used.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1295.70 and FS1365.4
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1193 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.6-F
Amend the definition for Freeboard.
Remove footnotes for 1 in 20 year tidal event (5% AEP) and use as a definition.
FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1295.71
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1194 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.5-E
Amend the definition for Freeboard.
Remove footnotes for 1 in 200 year rainfall event (0.5% AEP) and use as a definition.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1365.5 and FS1295.72.
863 Christchurch International Airport Limited
863.125 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.6-F
Amend - new definition The definition of ‘freight depot’, incorporated into the Replacement District Plan, as required by, and consistent with, the final decision on Plan Change 84. FS1453
310 Christchurch City Council 310.4 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.6-F
Add the following definition: FSC Certified Hardwood means hardwood sourced from tropical forests that has received a certificate from the Forest Stewardship Council stating the wood has been sustainably grown and harvested. Add FSC Certified Hardwood to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving
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definitions as appropriate.
310 Christchurch City Council 310.5 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.6-F
Add the following definition: Full-time equivalent student means the equivalent number of students based on the number of papers taken to complete a full time course in the normal time, divided by the actual number of students. Add Full-time equivalent student to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate.
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310 Christchurch City Council 310.20 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.7-G
Add the following definitions and reliant and related definitions: Garden allotment means a site used by an individual or members of a single household for growing fruit, vegetables and flowers, which are not sold to consumers (including restaurants). Reliant definitions Restaurant Site Related definitions Community garden Market garden
310 Christchurch City Council 310.27 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.7-G
Add the following definition and reliant and related definitions: Gross floor area habitable space means the sum of the total area of all floors of all spaces of a residential unit excluding any bathroom, laundry, toilet, pantry, walk in wardrobe, corridor, hallway, lobby, clothes drying room or garage (except any portion of a garage that includes a sleep-out). Reliant definitions Garage Residential unit Sleep-out Related definitions Gross floor area Habitable space Add Gross floor area habitable space to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate.
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832 Transpower New Zealand Limited 832.18 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Definitions - NPR: Amend the definitions chapter by including the following new definition: “Hazardous facility means a site involving hazardous substances, including vehicles for their transport and sites where these substances are used, stored, handled and disposed of. Hazardous facilities do not include the incidental use and storage of hazardous substances in minimal domestic scale quantities, retail outlets for domestic scale usage of hazardous substances (i.e. hardware shops, home garden centres), fuel in motor vehicles,
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boats and small engines, gas and oil pipelines, trade waste sewers and waste treatment and disposal facilities.” FS1295.58, FS1333.3, FS1333.4 and FS1339.10
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.11 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.8-H
Hazard mitigation works. This definition is limited to geologic hazards and does not include mitigation of atmospheric or hydrologic hazards. Suggest specify the hazard. FS1273.35
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.79 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List
Oppose undefined key terms - Heightened risk.
Amend such that either definitions of key terms (unacceptable, intolerable, acceptable, significant, serious, etc) are provided, or a framework for determining these levels of risk is produced to provide certainty and clarity (see reasons). Any framework should clearly state: - the likelihood of the hazard occurring; - the significance of consequences; and - the differentiation between risk to life and risk of damage to property and infrastructure.
Ensure that consistent terminology is applied.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1443.159, FS1443.159, FS1375.2, FS1450.304, FS1265.2, FS1332.6 and FS1361.9
778 Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga
778.6 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.8-H
Heritage New Zealand seeks that the plan provides a definition for 'heritage' in order to provide certainty to users of the plan. And any other consequential changes that may be required for consistency throughout the proposed plan.
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495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.67 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.9-I
Indigenous vegetation definition needs accompanying definition of indigenous fauna: Indigenous fauna Means all animals that occur naturally in New Zealand and have evolved or arrived without any assistance from humans. Indigenous species including migratory species visiting New Zealand on a regular or irregular basis. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS 1270.1
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1187 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.9-I
Insert: Indigenous fauna Means all animals that occur naturally in New Zealand and have evolved or arrived without any assistance from humans. Indigenous species including migratory species visiting New Zealand on a regular or irregular basis. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1448.9
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1187 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions >
Insert:
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Indigenous vegetation Means all plants that occur naturally in New Zealand and have evolved or arrived without any assistance from humans. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1448.9
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.5 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.9-I
Delete the definition of indigenous vegetation. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1389, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451
310 Christchurch City Council 310.7 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.9-I
Add the following definition and reliant and related definitions: Intersection in relation to two or more intersecting or meeting roadways or railway lines, means that area contained within the prolongation or connection of the lateral boundary lines of each roadway or railway. Reliant definitions Roadway Related definitions Boundary Add Intersection to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate.
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.79 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List
Oppose undefined key terms - Intolerable risk.
Amend such that either definitions of key terms (unacceptable, intolerable, acceptable, significant, serious, etc) are provided, or a framework for determining these levels of risk is produced to provide certainty and clarity (see reasons). Any framework should clearly state: - the likelihood of the hazard occurring; - the significance of consequences; and - the differentiation between risk to life and risk of damage to property and infrastructure.
Ensure that consistent terminology is applied.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1443.159, FS1443.159, FS1375.2, FS1450.304, FS1265.2, FS1332.6 and FS1361.9
928 Eliot Sinclair Consultancy 928.4 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the chapter so it accurately defines intolerable risk. FS1243.5
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310 Christchurch City Council 310.53 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.11-K
Amend the definition as follows: Kaitiakitanga means to support the protection of important environmental and cultural features.
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1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and their definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Kaitiakitanga. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and their definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Kotahitanga. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451.
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310 Christchurch City Council 310.8 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.12-L
Delete the current definition and replace it with the following definitions and reliant and related definitions: Landscaping (residential zones) means the provision of tree and/or shrub plantings and may include any ancillary lawn, water, rocks, paved areas or amenity features. Related definitions Landscaped area Landscaping (commercial and industrial zones) Landscaping strip Landscaping (commercial and industrial zones) means the provision of predominantly trees and shrub plantings and may include some ancillary areas of lawn or other amenity features. Related definitions Landscaped area Landscaping (residential zones) Landscaping strip Landscaped area (see Landscaping (commercial and industrial zones) or Landscaping (residential zones) as relevant). Reliant definitions Landscaping (commercial and industrial zones) Landscaping (residential zones) Related definitions Landscaping strip Landscaping strip (see Landscaping (commercial and industrial zones) or Landscaping (residential zones) as relevant). Reliant definitions Landscaping (commercial and industrial zones) Landscaping (residential zones)
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Related definitions Landscaped area Add Landscaping (residential zones), Landscaping (commercial and industrial zones), Landscaped area and Landscaping strip to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate. FS1450.54, FS1295.1 and FS1352.79
310 Christchurch City Council 310.9 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.12-L
Add the following definition and reliant definitions: Large format retail means any individual retail tenancy with a specified minimum floor area, where the tenancy is created by freehold, leasehold, licence or any other arrangement to occupy. Related definitions Large format centre Add Large format retail to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate. FS1270.10, FS1324.10 and FS1352.80
705 Foodstuffs South Island Limited and 705.50 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.12-L
Retain definition of Large Format Retail. FS1450.804 and FS1270.18
288 Harvey Norman LTD 288.9 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.12-L
'Large Format Retail Activity' - add as a new definition as follows: means retail activities, trade suppliers and yard-based suppliers with a gross leasable floor area of 450m2 per tenancy. FS1447.2, FS1450.37 and FS1367.3
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.79 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List
Oppose undefined key terms - Life safety risk.
Amend such that either definitions of key terms (unacceptable, intolerable, acceptable, significant, serious, etc) are provided, or a framework for determining these levels of risk is produced to provide certainty and clarity (see reasons). Any framework should clearly state: - the likelihood of the hazard occurring; - the significance of consequences; and - the differentiation between risk to life and risk of damage to property and infrastructure.
Ensure that consistent terminology is applied.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1443.159, FS1443.159, FS1375.2, FS1450.304, FS1265.2, FS1332.6 and FS1361.9
863 Christchurch International Airport Limited
863.126 2-Chapter 2 Definitions >
Amend - new definition.
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2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.12-L
The definition light manufacturing and servicing’, ‘incorporated into the Replacement District Plan, as required by, and consistent with, the final decision on Plan Change 84. FS1453, FS1435 and FS1434
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1188 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Amend the Natural hazards proposal by bringing descriptions of the different types of hazards (Liquefaction) and how they are determined/defined from the section 32 report to the definitions and seek additional guidance from MBIE and GNS Science technical guidance if the definitions are not complete. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1375.6
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definitions should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Liquefaction Assessment Area 1. FS1273.33
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Liquefaction Assessment Area 2. FS1273.33
723 Mobil Oil NZ, Z Energy Ltd and BP Oil NZ Ltd
723.2 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.12-L
Retain the definition of loading without modification.
988 Mobil Oil New Zealand Ltd 988.3 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.12-L
Retain the proposed definition of ‘loading’ without modification.
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.7 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.12-L
Add a new definition to Chapter 2 Definitions as follows: Low impact urban design means: Using recognised best practice techniques in urban development to promote the efficient use of natural and physical resources and to reduce environmental impacts, including but not limited to; freshwater, energy use, conservation values. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1389, FS1422, FS1449, FS1451, FS1308.2, FS1322.6, FS1325.2, FS1429.1, FS1449.8, FS1256.3, FS1270.28, FS1283.8, FS1450.741, FS1349.32 and FS1352.106
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310 Christchurch City Council 310.10 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.13-M
Add the following definition: Mahinga kai means food and other resources and the areas they are sourced from. Add Mahinga kai to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate.
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FS1448.37
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1189 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.13-M
Amend the definition for Major flood event to clearly state that the area mapped in the Floor Level and Fill Management Area encompasses properties at risk of flooding in a major flood event, and what that major event is.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1365.3 and FS1295.69
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and their definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Manaakitanga. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449, FS1451
863 Christchurch International Airport Limited
863.133 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.13-M
Amend 'manufacturing definition' The definitions of 'manufacturing’ incorporated into the Replacement District Plan, as required by, and consistent with, the final decision on Plan Change 84. FS1453, FS1435 and FS1434
310 Christchurch City Council 310.21 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.13-M
Add the following definitions and reliant and related definitions: Market garden in relation to residential zones, means a small-scale business growing a diverse range of fruit, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, which are sold directly to consumers (including restaurants). Reliant definitions Restaurant Related definitions Community garden Garden allotment
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1188 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Amend the Natural hazards proposal by bringing descriptions of the different types of hazards (Mass movement) and how they are determined/defined from the section 32 report to the definitions and seek additional guidance from MBIE and GNS Science technical guidance if the definitions are not complete. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1375.6
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Mass Movement Hazard Management Area 1. FS1273.33
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Mass Movement Hazard Management Area 2. FS1273.33
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Mass Movement Hazard Management Area 3. FS1273.33
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1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and its definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Matauranga. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451.
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and its definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Mauritanga. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451
886 Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group
886.5 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.13-M
Include a definition of Mineral as follows: Mineral means a naturally occurring inorganic substance beneath or at the surface of the earth, whether or not under water; and includes all metallic minerals, non-metallic minerals, fuel minerals, precious stones, industrial rocks and building stones and a prescribed substance within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Act 1945. FS1445, FS1412, FS1445.6 and FS1357.10
704 The Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust
704.3 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.13-M
Amend the definition of Mineral Extraction Activity as follows: means the use of land, buildings or plant for the purpose of the quarrying and the extraction of natural sands and gravels, the processing of those materials by screening, crushing, washing or mixing with additive materials, the storage of those materials (including additive materials), and site rehabilitation works. Additive materials (which may include clay, lime, cement and other mineral products not quarried on site) may only be used in the production of roading materials, and do not include bark, soil and sawdust. FS1363.1, FS1334.51 and FS1316.3
827 Higgins Contractors Ltd 827.6 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.13-M
Definition - Mineral Extraction Activity. The submitter opposes the current definitions of all such terms and seeks they be deleted; or other and consequential relief or further amendments as are considered appropriate and necessary by the hearings panel to address the concerns set out herein. FS1316.6
886 Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group
886.6 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.13-M
Amend the definition of Mineral Extraction Activity to include reference to all works undertaken as part of quarrying activities as follows: Mineral extraction activity means the use of land, buildings or plant for the purpose of the quarrying and the extraction of natural sands and gravel minerals and the processing of those materials minerals. For the avoidance of doubt this includes: a. by screening, crushing, and washing minerals or b. mixing minerals with additive materials, c. the storage of those materials minerals (including and additive materials), d. storing, distributing, transporting and selling mineral products, e. ancillary earthworks, f. treating stormwater and wastewater, g. clean filling, h. recycling or reusing aggregate products from demolition waste such as concrete, masonry or asphalt,
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i. ancillary buildings and structures, j. ancillary residential accommodation for caretaking and on-site security, k. site offices, and l. landscaping and site rehabilitation works. Additive materials (which may include clay, lime, cement and other mineral products not quarried on site) may only be used in the production of roading materials, and do not include bark, soil and sawdust. FS1445, FS1412, FS1445.7, FS1357.11, FS1316.9 and FS1444.340
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.81 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.13-M
Definition of Minimum Floor Levels. Define the following flood hazard and mitigation terminology: “Minimum floor levels”, including the criteria or formula for how the minimum floor levels are calculated. FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1264.2, FS1295.67, FS1365.1, FS1450.305 and FS1367.57
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495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.80 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Define and describe what a natural hazard means in the context of the district plan, including what situations make a natural hazard 'hazardous' and including: - the consideration that human occupation of an area and assets make a natural occurrence hazardous; and - clarification that natural hazards have differing levels of risk in regards to their impact on people and/or property and infrastructure. FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1295.64 and FS1375.3
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1188 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Amend the Natural hazards proposal by bringing descriptions of the different types of hazards (Natural Hazard) and how they are determined/defined from the section 32 report to the definitions and seek additional guidance from MBIE and GNS Science technical guidance if the definitions are not complete. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1375.6
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1190 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Ensure consistency and that the definition and description of natural hazards gives effect to the RPS. FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1375.4 and FS1295.65
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.5 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
T&T submits that the RMA definition of natural hazards should be included in Chapter 2 of the Plan. FS1273.29
310 Christchurch City Council 310.33 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Amend the definition as follows: Neighbourhood block area means an specified minimum area of no less than 8ha with a New Neighbourhood zoning. FS1347.4
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596 Radio New Zealand Limited 596.29 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Retain the wording of network utility operation as presently worded.
832 Transpower New Zealand Limited 832.13 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Retain the definitions of “network utility operation” and “network utility operator” as notified.
310 Christchurch City Council 310.36 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Amend the definition as follows: New neighbourhood hectare means a specified minimum area continuous 10,000m
2 of land for:
a. residential activities, including all associated open space and on-site parking areas; b. roads but excluding State Highways, and major arterial roads; and c. neighbourhood reserves of 3,000m
2 or larger as managed under the relevant
Activity Management Plan under the Local Government Act 2002.; but excludes land: d. to be vested in the Council as a local purpose reserve; e. subject to rock roll, liquefaction, subsidence or high flood hazard and where these
geotechnical constraints are not going to be remedied so that the land can contain residential units;
f. set aside to protect significant ecological, cultural, historic heritage, or landscape values; and
g. set aside for esplanade reserves or access strips that form part of a Garden and Heritage Park, Regional Park, Sports Park or Cemetery as managed under the relevant Activity Management Plan under the Local Government Act 2002.
FS1347.5
788 K Bush Road Ltd and Brian Gillman Ltd
788.2 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Definitions - New Neighbourhood Hectare - Retain the definition as proposed. FS1451.42, FS1353, FS1289, FS1398 and FS1466
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.82 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Definition New Urban Zonings. Amend New urban zonings to whichever is more appropriate: - new areas to be zoned residential in the future; or - new neighbourhood zones. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1270.1
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and its definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Ngāi Tahu/Manawhenua. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought.
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Last name Submission point number
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A A(P) R D
FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.77 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Definition of non-residential activity: Review and amend the definitions relating to non-residential community based facilities and activities to reduce duplication and provide greater clarity, including consequential amendments. FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1 and FS1332.4
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1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and its definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Orangatanga. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451
160 Miles 160.10 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Chapter 2 Defintions New 'Outdoor Room'. Out Door Room: Max area of 30 M² adjoined to the building with direct access of living space. One wall 100% open and the other two a total of 50% total enclosure. The area may be roofed and where with 2.0M of a boundary (internal and road) have a Max height of 3.0M
1142 ADNZ Canterbury/ Westland Region 1142.10 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.15-O
Outdoor Room -We wish to amend the provision to read: Out Door Room: Max area of 30 M² adjoined to the building with direct access of living space. One wall 100% open and the other two a total of 50% total enclosure. The area may be roofed and where with 2.0M of a boundary (internal and road) have a Max height of 3.0M.
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310 Christchurch City Council 310.14 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.16-P
Add the following definition and reliant and related definitions: Parking space means a space on a site capable of, and available at any time for, accommodating one stationary 85 percentile motor vehicle excluding any spaces set aside for the display of vehicles. Reliant definitions Site Related definitions Parking area Parking building Parking lot Add Parking space to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate. FS1347.7 and FS1270.12
723 Mobil Oil NZ, Z Energy Ltd and BP Oil NZ Ltd
723.25 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the definition of Port Activities to appropriately recognise the critical fuel supply infrastructure and to include a specific reference to utilities. This could be achieved by retaining the definition subject to the following amendments (deletions in strikethrough and
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A A(P) R D
additions in underline): means the use of land, wharves, plant, equipment, buildings, utilities, wharflines and pipelines and other port related facilities and structures for: 1. cargo handling and passengers; 2. port administration; 3. maintenance and repair facilities; 4. bulk fuel supply and liquids storage 5. ship and boat building activities; 6. warehouses, storage areas and facilities; 7. parking areas; and 8. activities associated with: i. berthing; and ii. departure and surface movements of ships.
FS1444
915 Lyttelton Port Company Limited 915.5 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.16-P
Delete the proposed definition of ‘Port Activities’ and replace with the following: Port Activities Means: a. Cargo handling, including the loading, unloading, storage, processing and transit of cargo; b. Passenger handling, including the loading, unloading, and transit of passengers, including passenger or cruise ship terminals and associated facilities c. Maintenance and repair activities, including the maintenance and repair of vessels; d. Port administration; e. Trade and industry training facilities; f. Industries, including ship and boat building; g. Warehousing and distribution activities, including bulk fuel storage and associated pipeline networks; h. Facilities for yachting and recreational boating; i. Infrastructure, buildings, structures, signage, utilities, roads, carparking, rail, Offices and Food and Beverage Outlets associated with and supporting the above activities; j. Earthworks and quarrying associated with and supporting the above activities, including the reclaiming of land; And includes activities associated with: a. The surface navigation, berthing, manoeuvring, refuelling, storage, servicing and providoring, of vessels.
988 Mobil Oil New Zealand Ltd 988.29 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.16-P
Amend the definition of Port Activities to appropriately recognise the critical fuel supply infrastructure and to include a specific reference to utilities. This could be achieved by retaining the definition subject to the following amendments (deletions in strikethrough and additions in underline): means the use of land, wharves, plant, equipment, buildings, utilities, wharflines and pipelines and other port related facilities and structures for: 1. cargo handling and passengers; 2. port administration; 3. maintenance and repair facilities; 4. bulk fuel supply and liquids storage 5. ship and boat building activities;
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A A(P) R D
6. warehouses, storage areas and facilities; 7. parking areas; and 8. activities associated with:
i. berthing; and ii. departure and surface movements of ships.
FS1270.7
310 Christchurch City Council 310.15 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.16-P
Add the following definition and reliant and related definitions: Public area means those parts of any building and associated outdoor areas normally available for use by the general public, exclusive of any areas used for services or access. Reliant definitions Access Building Related definitions Waste management area Add Public area to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate. FS1270.13
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310 Christchurch City Council 310.16 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.17-Q
Add the following definition and reliant and related definitions: Queuing space means the area of an access between the site boundary and the vehicle control point available for the queuing of vehicles. Reliant definitions Access Site boundary Vehicle control point Related definitions Parking space Add Queuing space to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate. FS1378.2 and FS1347.8
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596 Radio New Zealand Limited 596.10 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.18-R
Add the following definition: 'Radiocommunications means: any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, or intelligence of any nature by radio waves.'
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Last name Submission point number
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Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and its definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Rangatiratanga. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS 1449 and FS 1451
733 Meyn 733.1 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.18-R
Retain the definition of 'recreational activity,' but include 'rural activity' within the related definitions column. FS1462.1
733 Meyn 733.2 Support 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.18-R
Retain the definition of 'recreational facility'.
886 Canterbury Aggregate Producers Group
886.7 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.18-R
Include a definition of Regionally Significant Activities as follows: Regionally significant activity means an activity that has a significant contribution to the social, economic, and cultural well-being of the region. FS1412, FS1445, FS1357.12, FS1445.8 FS1316 and 1279.7
932 House Movers 932.2 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete all provisions (including objectives, policies, rules, assessment criteria and other methods and reasons) on relocation of dwellings and buildings in the proposed plan, the definitions section, and elsewhere.
932 House Movers 932.3 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the definitions section of the plan to accord with trade practice and usage so as to distinguish between the activities of removal, re-siting, and relocation of dwellings and buildings.
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Remainder of Port Hills and Banks Peninsula Slope Instability Management Area. FS1273.33
932 House Movers 932.2 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete all provisions (including objectives, policies, rules, assessment criteria and other methods and reasons) on removal of dwellings and buildings in the proposed plan, the definitions section, and elsewhere.
932 House Movers 932.3 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the definitions section of the plan to accord with trade practice and usage so as to distinguish between the activities of removal, re-siting, and relocation of dwellings and buildings.
932 House Movers 932.5 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the definitions section so it provides for the removal of buildings as a permitted activity in all areas and zones, except in relation to any scheduled identified heritage buildings, or any properly established conservation heritage precinct.
863 Christchurch International Airport Limited
863.127 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions
Amend - new definition. The definition of ‘repair and maintenance’ is incorporated into the Replacement District Plan, as required by, and consistent with, the final decision on Plan Change 84.
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Last name Submission point number
Support/ Oppose
Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
List > 2.1.18-R
FS1453, FS1435 and FS1434
310 Christchurch City Council 310.40 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.18-R
Add the definition and reliant definitions as follows: Residential allotment means an allotment created to contain a residential activity. Reliant definitions Allotment Residential activity Related definitions Lot Add Residential allotment to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate.
181 Divett 181.1 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
New definition of residential business. FS1269.1
932 House Movers 932.2 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete all provisions (including objectives, policies, rules, assessment criteria and other methods and reasons) on re-siting of dwellings and buildings in the proposed plan, the definitions section, and elsewhere.
932 House Movers 932.3 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the definitions section of the plan to accord with trade practice and usage so as to distinguish between the activities of removal, re-siting, and relocation of dwellings and buildings.
932 House Movers 932.5 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the definitions section so it provides for the re-siting of buildings as a permitted activity in all areas and zones, except in relation to any scheduled identified heritage buildings, or any properly established conservation heritage precinct.
928 Eliot Sinclair Consultancy 928.4 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the chapter so it accurately defines risk for erosion and subsidence. FS1243.5
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1188 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Amend the Natural hazards proposal by bringing descriptions of the different types of hazards (Rock fall) and how they are determined/defined from the section 32 report to the definitions and seek additional guidance from MBIE and GNS Science technical guidance if the definitions are not complete. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1375.6
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340 Akaroa Civic Trust 340.18 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Add a definition of scale and form, including location as an aspect of scale and form.
928 Eliot Sinclair Consultancy 928.4 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Amend the chapter so it accurately defines serious effects. FS1243.5
310 Christchurch City Council 310.242 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List >
Add the following definition and reliant and related definitions: Show home means a building or part of a building constructed as a residential unit, that is displayed and promoted to encourage people to buy or construct similar residential units at a different site
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Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
2.1.19-S (although upon sale, may remain on the same site or be relocated). Reliant definitions Building Residential unit Site Related definitions Relocation of a building Add Show home to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate.
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.79 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List
Oppose undefined key terms - Significantly damage.
Amend such that either definitions of key terms (unacceptable, intolerable, acceptable, significant, serious, etc) are provided, or a framework for determining these levels of risk is produced to provide certainty and clarity (see reasons). Any framework should clearly state: - the likelihood of the hazard occurring; - the significance of consequences; and - the differentiation between risk to life and risk of damage to property and infrastructure.
Ensure that consistent terminology is applied.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1443.159, FS1443.159, FS1375.2, FS1450.304, FS1265.2, FS1332.6 and FS1361.9
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.79 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List
Oppose undefined key terms - Significant natural hazard.
Amend such that either definitions of key terms (unacceptable, intolerable, acceptable, significant, serious, etc) are provided, or a framework for determining these levels of risk is produced to provide certainty and clarity (see reasons). Any framework should clearly state: - the likelihood of the hazard occurring; - the significance of consequences; and - the differentiation between risk to life and risk of damage to property and infrastructure.
Ensure that consistent terminology is applied.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1443.159, FS1443.159, FS1375.2, FS1450.304, FS1265.2, FS1332.6 and FS1361.9
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1188 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Amend the Natural hazards proposal by bringing descriptions of the different types of hazards (Significant natural hazard) and how they are determined/defined from the section 32 report to the definitions and seek additional guidance from MBIE and GNS Science technical guidance if the definitions are not complete.
FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1375.6
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.6 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions
Add a definition of sites of Ngai Tahu cultural significance. Site of Ngai Tahu cultural significance means any site or area identified: (i) As an area of Statutory Acknowledgment in the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998;
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Last name Submission point number
Support/ Oppose
Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
List > 2.1.19-S
(ii) Vested in the ownership of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu under the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998; (iii) Land which is held as Maori Land or Maori reserve land; (iv) Any site protected in a national water conservation order as being outstanding in its cultural significance to Ngai Tahu; or (v) Any other site identified in a district or regional plan or shown on the planning maps of a district or regional plan as being a culturally significant landscape, a site of wahi tapu or wahi taonga; or a site which the council holds information on as being a silent file. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1389, FS1422, FS1449, FS1451, FS1429.1, FS1449.7, FS1322.5, FS1256.2, FS1308.1, FS1325.1, FS1283.7, FS1349.32 and FS1270.29
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.1188 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Amend the Natural hazards proposal by bringing descriptions of the different types of hazards (Slope instability) and how they are determined/defined from the section 32 report to the definitions and seek additional guidance from MBIE and GNS Science technical guidance if the definitions are not complete. FS1420, FS1294.46 and FS1375.6
422 The Salvation Army 422.7 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.19-S
Add the following to the definition of supportive housing: housing (either individual or shared housing) for individuals supported by the Salvation Army. Shared housing provides for shared meals and recreation rooms, individual housing means all inclusive facilities (kitchen, ablutions). Supportive housing includes reintegration housing for recently released inmates supported by the Salvation Army.
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738 Ilam and Upper Riccarton Residents Association
738.4 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Add in a definition for tertiary education student: 'means a person who is a registered student of, and is pursuing a course of study on a full-time basis at a tertiary education facility.' FS1436.8 and FS1442.8
738 Ilam and Upper Riccarton Residents Association
738.5 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Add a tertiary education student accommodation definition, stating: 'means professionally managed residential accommodation provided for the sole use of tertiary education students.' FS1436.9 and FS1442.9
495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.79 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List
Oppose undefined key terms - Tolerable level.
Amend such that either definitions of key terms (unacceptable, intolerable, acceptable, significant, serious, etc) are provided, or a framework for determining these levels of risk is produced to provide certainty and clarity (see reasons). Any framework should clearly state: - the likelihood of the hazard occurring; - the significance of consequences; and - the differentiation between risk to life and risk of damage to property and infrastructure.
Ensure that consistent terminology is applied.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1443.159, FS1443.159, FS1375.2, FS1450.304, FS1265.2, FS1332.6 and FS1361.9
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Last name Submission point number
Support/ Oppose
Category Submission summary A: Accept A(P): Accept in part R: Reject D: Defer
A A(P) R D
832 Transpower New Zealand Limited 832.20 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.14-N
Definitions - NPR: Amend the definitions chapter by including the following new definitions: Transmission Line means the same as defined in the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for electricity Transmission Activities) Regulations 2009.”
310 Christchurch City Council 310.47 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.20-T
Add the following definition: Tsunami inundation area means the area as set out in Environment Canterbury report number R12/38 “Modelling coastal inundation in Christchurch and Kaiapoi from a South American Tsunami using topography from after the 2011 February Earthquake” (2012), NIWA. Add Tsunami inundation area to the reliant and related definitions of all other surviving definitions as appropriate.
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495 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
495.79 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List
Oppose undefined key terms - Unacceptable risk.
Amend such that either definitions of key terms (unacceptable, intolerable, acceptable, significant, serious, etc) are provided, or a framework for determining these levels of risk is produced to provide certainty and clarity (see reasons). Any framework should clearly state: - the likelihood of the hazard occurring; - the significance of consequences; and - the differentiation between risk to life and risk of damage to property and infrastructure.
Ensure that consistent terminology is applied.
FS1420, FS1294.46, FS1270.1, FS1443.159, FS1443.159, FS1375.2, FS1450.304, FS1265.2, FS1332.6 and FS1361.9
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1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and its definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Wāhi taonga. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and its definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Wāhi tapu. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Waimakariri River Floodplain High Flood Hazard. FS1273.33
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Waimakariri River Stopbank Floodplain. FS1273.33
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A A(P) R D
970 Tonkin & Taylor Ltd 970.9 Neutral 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
T&T submits that a definition should be included in the Plan in Chapter 2 (preferably) or in Chapter 5 for Waimakariri River Stopbank Setback. FS1273.33
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and its definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Wairuatanga. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451
863 Christchurch International Airport Limited
863.129 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.23-W
Amend - new definition. The definitions of ‘‘warehouse and distribution activities’ are incorporated into the Replacement District Plan, as required by, and consistent with, the final decision on Plan Change 84. FS1453, FS1435 and FS1434
1145 Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd and Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu
1145.3 Oppose 2-Chapter 2 Definitions
Delete the following term and its definition from Chapter 2 – Definitions: Whanaungatanga. Make any consequential amendments necessary to give effect to the decisions sought. FS1345, FS1344, FS1353.2, FS1422, FS1449 and FS1451
310 Christchurch City Council 310.49 2-Chapter 2 Definitions > 2.1-Definitions List > 2.1.23-W
Amend the definition and reliant and related definitions as follows: Work bay means an the area of not more than 50m
2 within a service station or motor-servicing facility
used for the repair and/or maintenance of motor vehicles, including access. Reliant definitions Access Motor-servicing facility Service station Related definitions Service station
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Appendix 6: Remaining definitions that can be deleted in favour of the plain
English definition and not submitted on but still required as notified
Still required as notified No longer required
Remaining definitions that can be deleted in favour of the plain English
definition
District centre
Local centre
Neighbourhood centre
Finer grain retailing
Remaining definitions not submitted on
Active transport
Apartment
Approved building
Articulation
Automotive and/or marine supplier
Banks Peninsula
Building line restriction
Christchurch City Council Datum
Christchurch District
Christchurch District excluding Banks
Peninsula Ward
Contaminated land
Development contribution
Dripline
Duplex
EDM (relocate to Abbreviations)
EDM core public transport route
Erection of a building
Freight hub
Front site
Future development allotment (if Rule
Alcohol licence
Building consent platform
Farming and agricultural supplier
Food court
Future development allotment (if Rule
8.4.2.1 deleted)
Garden and patio supplier
Greater Christchurch area of
Christchurch District
Habitable building
Legally defined parcel of land
Lot
New neighbourhood entry lot
New neighbourhood residential unit types
New neighbourhood target yield
Office furniture, equipment and systems
suppliers
Paved impermeable surface
Peripheral boundary length (if Rule
8.2.4.5 deleted)
Point strip
Residential amenity
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8.4.2.1 retained)
Greenfield
Grout
Mechanical ventilation
Park and ride facilities
Peripheral boundary length (if Rule
8.2.4.5 retained)
Principal building
Private way
Rail siding
Residential building platform
Right-of-way
Road reserve
Roadway
Rural produce
Standalone house
Tavern
Terrace
Vehicle control point
Wetland
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Appendix 7: Table showing the Council's position on inconsistent definitions
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History of Definitions - Inconsistencies in Council's Earlier Position
The below tables set out the evolution of those definitions where inconsistencies have subsequently
arisen as a result of decisions, mediation, evidence and Hearings to date. Council's final wording for
these definitions is also included in the tables.
Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions (as Notified)
Community facility means any land and/or building or part thereof intended to be used principally by members of the community for recreation, entertainment, education, health care, safety and welfare, worship, cultural or deliberation purposes. Community facilities include reserves, recreation and entertainment facilities, community infrastructure such as libraries and community halls, education activities, health care facilities, care facilities, emergency service facilities and spiritual facilities, but do not include privately (as opposed to publicly) owned recreation and entertainment facilities, or restaurants.
Building Care facility Community infrastructure Education activity Emergency service facilities Entertainment facility Health care facility Recreation facility Reserve Restaurant Spiritual facility
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1) (Chapter 14 - Residential)
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Community facility means any land and/or building or part thereof intended to be used principally by members of the community for recreation, entertainment, education, health care, safety and welfare, worship, cultural or deliberation purposes. Community facilities include reserves, recreation and entertainment facilities, community infrastructure such as libraries and community halls, education activities, health care facilities, care facilities, emergency service facilities, community corrections facilities, [community welfare facilities] and spiritual facilities, but do not include privately (as opposed to publicly) owned recreation and entertainment facilities, or restaurants. Reliant definitions: Building Care facility Community corrections facility Community infrastructure Education activity Emergency service facilities Entertainment facility Health care facility Recreation facility
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number #495 Crown)
Scott Blair
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Reserve Restaurant Spiritual facility
Changes to Definition (2) Chapter 15 - Commercial and Chapter 16 - Industrial
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Community facility means any land and/or building or part thereof intended to be used principally by members of the community for recreation, entertainment, education, health care, safety and welfare, worship, cultural or deliberation purposes. Community facilities include reserves, recreation and entertainment facilities, community infrastructure such as libraries and community halls, education activities, health care facilities, care facilities, emergency service facilities, community corrections facilities, [community welfare facilities], and spiritual facilities, but do not include privately (as opposed to publicly) owned recreation and entertainment facilities, or restaurants. Reliant definitions: Building Care facility Community corrections facility Community infrastructure Education activity Emergency service facilities Entertainment facility Health care facility Recreation facility Reserve Restaurant Spiritual facility
Hearing - Rebuttal Evidence of Mark Stevenson dated 4 May 2015 (response to submission number 495, The Crown) Strikeout underlined italics bold = new strikeouts from evidence in chief version Underlined italics bold = new additions in rebuttal evidence
Mark Stevenson
Council Position / Final definition wording Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Scott Blair
Community facility means any land and/or building or part thereof intended to be used principally by members of the community for recreation, entertainment, education, health care, safety and welfare, worship, cultural or deliberation purposes. Community facilities include reserves, recreation and entertainment facilities, community infrastructure such as libraries and community halls, education activities, health care facilities, care facilities, emergency service facilities, community corrections facilities, [community welfare facilities], and spiritual facilities, but do not include privately (as opposed to publicly) owned recreation and entertainment facilities, or restaurants.
Reliant Definitions Building Care facility Community corrections facility Community infrastructure Education activity Emergency service facilities Entertainment facility Health care facility Recreation facility Reserve Restaurant Spiritual facility
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Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions (as Notified)
Education activity means the use of land and/or buildings for the provision of regular instruction or training by suitably qualified instructors, and includes ancillary administrative, boarding/residential accommodation, spiritual, recreation, cultural and shared facilities, and also includes pre-schools. Boarding/residential accommodation shall be ancillary to education activity on that site. For the purpose of calculating the parking requirement, education activity shall also be deemed to include any auditorium used, at least in part, for the education activity. Educational facility has the same meaning. Education activity includes trade and industry training facilities.
Building Pre-school Recreation activity Site Spiritual facility Trade and industry training facility
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1) Ch - 6A, 6B, 6C Temporary Activities 1B
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Unknown at this stage - SoI stage Statement of Issues issued 14/05/15 identifies this definition as being relevant for this Chapter.
Peter Eman
Changes to Definition (2) Chapter 14 - Residential
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Education activity means the use of land and/or buildings for the provision of regular instruction teaching or training, or out of school care by suitably qualified instructors, and includes the use of ancillary administrative, boarding/residential accommodation, spiritual, recreation, health and cultural and shared facilities, and also includes early childhood education facilities and pre-schools. The use of Bboarding/residential accommodation shall be ancillary to education activity on that site. Where community activities occur in education facilities, the parking requirements will be those for education activity. For the purpose of calculating the parking requirement, education activity shall also be deemed to include any auditorium used, at least in part, for the education activity. Educational facility has the same meaning. Education activity includes trade and industry training facilities.
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (Mr Blair, Evidence in Chief (Council), paragraph 13.6] and [Supplementary Statement of Evidence of Mr Blair Topic 3)
Scott Blair
Changes to Definition (3) Chapter 14 - Residential
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Education activity means the use of land and/or buildings for the provision of regular instruction teaching or training by suitably qualified instructors, or
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F
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out of school care, and includesing the use of ancillary administrative, boarding/residential accommodation, spiritual, recreation, health and cultural and shared facilities (all of which may be shared), and also includes pre- schools. Bboarding/residential accommodation shall be ancillary to education activity on that site. For the purpose of calculating the parking requirement, education activity shall also be deemed to include any auditorium used, at least in part, for the education activity. Educational facility has the same meaning. Education activity It also includes the use of trade and industry training facilities and pre-school facilities. Reliant Definitions: Building Pre-school facility Recreation activity Site Spiritual facility Trade and industry training facility
Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To update the wording (e.g. 'instruction' to 'teaching'); make it clear that out of school care is included; add health facilities to provide for sick bays; allow for sharing of facilities between schools and between schools and the Council (e.g. Riccarton library); and delete that part of the definition which was effectively a rule.
Changes to Definition (3) Chapter 7 - Transport
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Education activity means the use of land and/or buildings for the provision of regular instruction or training, or out of school care, by suitably qualified instructors, and includinges ancillary administrative, boarding/residential accommodation, spiritual, recreation, health and cultural and shared facilities, (all of which may be shared), and Bboarding/residential accommodation shall be ancillary to education activity on that site. For the purpose of calculating the parking requirement, education activity shall also be deemed to include any auditorium used, at least in part, for the education activity. Educational facility has the same meaning. Education activity It also includes the use of trade and industry training facilities and pre-school facilities.
Hearing - evidence in chief dated 26 May 2015 (in response to submission numbers 656, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch; and 837 Rangi Ruru Girls' School). Note consistent with Scott Blair Annexure F above.
David Falconer
Council Position / Final definition wording Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Scott Blair
Education activity means the use of land and/or buildings for the provision of regular instruction or training, or out of school care,by suitably qualified instructors, and includesing ancillary administrative, boarding/residential accommodation, spiritual, recreation, health and cultural and shared
Reliant Definitions Building Pre-school Recreation activity Site
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facilities (all of which may be shared), and also includes pre-schools. Bboarding/residential accommodation shall be ancillary to education activity on that site. It also includes the use of trade and industry training facilities and pre-school facilities. For the purpose of calculating the parking requirement, education activity shall also be deemed to include any auditorium used, at least in part, for the education activity. Educational facility has the same meaning. Education activity includes trade and industry training facilities.
Spiritual facility Trade and industry training facility
Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions (as Notified)
Health care facility means land and/or buildings used for the provision of physical and mental health services for people, including: a. hospitals and ancillary gymnasiums and/or pools which are part of a
hospital service and treatment programme;
b. care facilities for the elderly and/or the disabled which include medical
facilities and may incorporate on-site accommodation;
c. base facilities for the provision of off-site health services, including
medical centres, clinics and consulting rooms, in which consultations
between health care professionals and patients occur;
d. accessory buildings and activities, such as kitchen and laundry facilities,
located on the same site;
but excludes facilities used for: e. the promotion of physical fitness or beauty such as gymnasiums and/or
pools (except where ancillary to a hospital service or treatment
programme);
f. beauty clinics; and
g. weight control clinics.
Accessory building Building Care facility Gymnasium Hospital Site
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1) Ch - 6A, 6B, 6C Temporary Activities 1B
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Unknown at this stage - SoI stage Statement of Issues issued 14/05/15 identifies this definition as being relevant for this Chapter.
Peter Eman
Changes to Definition (2) Chapter 14 - Residential
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Health care facility means land and/or buildings used for the provision of physical and mental health services for people, including:
a. hospitals and ancillary gymnasiums
and/or pools which are part of a
hospital service and treatment
programme;
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (Blair first statement of rebuttal, para 25.2; Transcript 20/04/15, page 1193 and 1210)
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b. care facilities for the elderly and/or
the disabled which include medical
facilities and may incorporate on-site
accommodation but does not include
care facilities for the elderly provided
within a retirement village;
c. base facilities for the provision of off-
site health services, including medical
centres, clinics and consulting rooms,
in which consultations between health
care professionals and patients occur;
d. accessory buildings and activities,
such as kitchen and laundry facilities,
located on the same site;
but excludes facilities used for: e. the promotion of physical fitness or
beauty such as gymnasiums and/or
pools (except where ancillary to a
hospital service or treatment
programme);
f. beauty clinics; and
g. weight control clinics.
Changes to Definition (3) Chapter 14 - Residential
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Health care facility means land and/or buildings used for the provision of physical and mental health, or health-related welfare services for people by registered health practitioners (approved under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003), including: a. hospitals and ancillary gymnasiums and/or pools which are part of a hospital service and treatment programme; b. care facilities for the elderly and/or the disabled which include medical facilities and may incorporate on-site accommodation; c. base facilities for the provision of off-site health services, including medical centres, clinics and consulting rooms, in which consultations between health care professionals and patients occur; d. accessory buildings and activities, such as kitchen and laundry facilities, located on the same site; a. medical practitioners; b. dentists and dental services; c. opticians;
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To remove an inappropriate overlap with residential-based care for the elderly (which is a residential, not health-care, activity) and make it more clearly activities-based.
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d. physiotherapists; e. medical social workers and counsellors; f. midwives; g. paramedical practitioners; h. diagnostic laboratories; i. day care facilities for the elderly and
disabled; j. accessory offices and retail activity to the
above but excludes excluding facilities used for: k. e.the promotion of physical fitness, or
beauty such as gymnasiums and/or pools (except where ancillary to a hospital service or treatment programme); and
l. f.beauty clinics.; and g.weight control clinics.
Council Position / Final definition wording Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Scott Blair
Health care facility
means land and/or buildings used for the provision of physical and mental health, or health-related welfare services for people by registered health practitioners (approved under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003) services for people, including:
a. medical practitioners; b. dentists and dental services; c. opticians; d. physiotherapists; e. medical social workers and counsellors; f. midwives; g. paramedical practitioners; h. diagnostic laboratories; i. day care facilities for the elderly and disabled; j. accessory offices and retail activity to the above
but excluding facilities used for: k. the promotion of physical fitness, such as gymnasiums
and/or pools (except where ancillary to a hospital service or treatment programme);
l. beauty clinics; and m. health care in Retirement Villages.
h. hospitals and ancillary gymnasiums and/or pools which are part
of a hospital service and treatment programme;
i. care facilities for the elderly and/or the disabled which include
medical facilities and may incorporate on-site accommodation;
j. base facilities for the provision of off-site health services,
including medical centres, clinics and consulting rooms, in which
consultations between health care professionals and patients
occur;
k. accessory buildings and activities, such as kitchen and laundry
facilities, located on the same site;
Reliant Definitions
Accessory building Building Care facility Gymnasium Hospital Site
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but excludes facilities used for: l. the promotion of physical fitness or beauty such as gymnasiums
and/or pools (except where ancillary to a hospital service or
treatment programme);
m. beauty clinics; and
n. weight control clinics.
Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions (as Notified)
Height in relation to a building means the vertical distance between ground level at any point and the highest part of the building immediately above that point, except that for the purpose of calculating height in all zones, account shall be taken of parapets, but not of:
a. radio and television aerials attached to a residential unit, provided that the
maximum height normally permitted by the rules for the zone is not
exceeded by more than 2.5 metres; and
b. finials, provided that the maximum height normally permitted by the rules
for the zone is not exceeded by more than 1.5 metres.
c. lift shafts, plant rooms, water tanks, air conditioning units, ventilation ducts,
chimneys and antennae and similar architectural features on buildings in all
Commercial and Industrial Zones including the Special Purpose (Wigram)
Zone area, the Central City Business and Mixed Use Zones, the Cultural 4
Zone, the Living 5 Zone in the Central City, Central City Living Zone and the
Special Purpose (Airport) Zone, provided they do not exceed an additional 6
metres or 20% of the height of a building (whichever is lesser) and not more
than 25% of the plan area of a building.
d. chimneys (not exceeding 1.1 metres in any direction) except allowed for in
the Central City Living and L5 Zones under subclause (3) above.
e. any utility or part of a utility with a horizontal dimension of less than 55
millimetres.
Building Ground level Utility
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1) Ch - 6A, 6B, 6C Temporary Activities 1B
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Unknown at this stage - SoI stage Statement of Issues issued 14/05/15 identifies this definition as being relevant for this Chapter.
Peter Eman
Changes to Definition (2) Chapter 14 - Residential
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Height in relation to a building means the vertical distance between ground level at any point and the highest part of the building immediately above that point, except that for the purpose of calculating height in all zones,
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To exempt all radio and television
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account shall be taken of parapets, but not of: a. radio and television aerials attached
to a residential unit, provided that the
maximum height normally permitted
by the rules for the zone is not
exceeded by more than 2.5 metres;
and
b. finials, provided that the maximum
height normally permitted by the
rules for the zone is not exceeded by
more than 1.5 metres.;
c. lift shafts, plant rooms, water tanks,
air conditioning units, ventilation
ducts, chimneys and antennae and
similar architectural features on
buildings in all Open Space Zones;
Commercial and Industrial Zones
including the Special Purpose
(Wigram) Zone area, the Central City
Business and Mixed Use Zones, the
Cultural 4 Zone, the Living 5 Zone in
the Central City, Central City Living
Zone and the Specialfic Purpose
(Wigram), (Tertiary Education),
(Hospital) and (Airport) Zones;,
provided they do not exceed an
additional 6 metres or 20% of the
height of a building (whichever is
lesser) and not more than 25% of the
plan area of a building.
d. chimneys (not exceeding 1.1 metres in
any direction) except allowed for in
the Central City Living and L5 Zones
under subclause (3) above in
e. all other zones.
f. any utility or part of a utility with a
horizontal dimension of less than 55
millimetres.;
g. exceed the allowed zone height by no
more than 3m or 20% of the building
height (whichever is greater);
h. any pole or support structure for flood
or training lights accessory to a minor
or major sports facility, provided that
their height does not exceed 40m.
aerials; standardise the format with respect to measurements; amend clause (c) so that it refers to the Stage 2 - specific updated zone names; resolve a conflict between clauses (a) and (d) with respect to chimneys; and to exempt the spires and towers of spiritual facilities (in lieu of operative plan rule 9.3.5.1) and sports facility-related floodlights not considered of a nature to generate adverse shading- related effects up to the specified height.
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Reliant Definitions:
Antenna
Building
Ground level
Major sports facility
Minor sports facility
Spiritual facility
Utility
Changes to Definition (3) Chapter 15 - Commercial and Chapter 16 - Industrial
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Height in relation to a building means the vertical distance between ground level at any point and the highest part of the building immediately above that point, except that for the purpose of calculating height in all zones, account shall be taken of parapets, but not of:
a. radio and television aerials attached
to a residential unit, provided that the
maximum height normally permitted
by the rules for the zone is not
exceeded by more than 2.5 metres;
and
b. finials, provided that the maximum
height normally permitted by the
rules for the zone is not exceeded by
more than 1.5 metres.
c. lift shafts, plant rooms, water tanks,
air conditioning units, ventilation
ducts, chimneys and antennae and
similar architectural features on
buildings in all Commercial and
Iindustrial Zzones including the
Special Purpose (Wigram) Zone area,
the Central City Business and Mixed
Use Zones, the Cultural 4 Zone, the
Living 5 Zone in the Central City,
Central City Living Zone and the
Special Purpose (Airport) Zone,
provided they do not exceed an
additional 6 metres or 20% of the
height of a building (whichever is
lesser) and not more than 25% of the
plan area of a building.
d. chimneys (not exceeding 1.1 metres in
Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission numbers 310 (FS1436 and FS1422), Christchurch City Council; 756, CPIT; 793, Church Property Trustees; and 922, Orion.
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any direction) except allowed for in
the Central City Living and L5 Zones
under subclause (3) above.
e. any utility or part of a utility with a
horizontal dimension of less than 55
millimetres.
f. Church spires or bell towers.
Council Position / Final definition wording Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Scott Blair
Height in relation to a building means the vertical distance between ground level at any point and the highest part of the building immediately above that point, except that for the purpose of calculating height in all zones, account shall be taken of parapets, but not of: a. radio and television aerials attached to a residential unit, provided
that the maximum height normally permitted by the rules for the
zone is not exceeded by more than 2.5 metres; and
b. finials, provided that the maximum height normally permitted by
the rules for the zone is not exceeded by more than 1.5 metres.
c. lift shafts, plant rooms, water tanks, air conditioning units,
ventilation ducts, chimneys and antennae and similar architectural
features on buildings in all Open Space Zones; Commercial and
Industrial Zones including the Special Purpose (Defence Wigram),
(Tertiary Education), (Hospital) and (Airport) Zones; area, the
Central City Business and Mixed Use Zones, the Cultural 4 Zone,
the Living 5 Zone in the Central City, Central City Living Zone and
the Special Purpose (Airport) Zone, provided they do not exceed
an additional 6 metres or 20% of the height of a building
(whichever is lesser) and not more than 25% of the plan area of a
building.
d. chimneys (not exceeding 1.1 metres in any direction); except
allowed for in the Central City Living and L5 Zones under
subclause (3) above.
e. any utility or part of a utility with a horizontal dimension of less
than 55 millimetres;
f. exceed the allowed zone height by no more than 3m or 20% of
the building height (whichever is greater);
g. any pole or support structure for flood or training lights accessory
to a minor or major sports facility, provided that their height
does not exceed 40m; and
h. Church spires or bell towers.
Reliant Definitions Building Ground level Utility
Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions
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(as Notified)
Landscaping except in the Commercial, Retail Park and Industrial Zones, means the provision of tree and/or shrub plantings and may include any ancillary lawn, water, rocks, paved areas or amenity features. In the Commercial, Retail Park and Industrial Zones, landscaping means the provision of predominantly tree and/or shrub plantings and may include some ancillary areas of lawn or other amenity features. Landscaped area and landscaping strip shall have the same meaning.
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1) (Chapter 14 - Residential)
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Landscaping except in the Commercial, Retail Park and Industrial Zones, means the provision of tree and/or shrub plantings and may include any ancillary lawn, water, rocks, paved areas or amenity features. In the Commercial, Retail Park and Industrial Zones, landscaping means the provision of predominantly trees and/or shrub plantings and may include some ancillary areas of lawn or other amenity features. Landscaped area and landscaping strip shall have the same meaning.
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F Notes reason for change in Stage 2: The Stage 1 definition (and the residential-specific amendment proposed via Council submission) is too broad, allowing for design elements that are not plant based when landscaping should be primarily about planting (although hardscaping can be important too, especially in higher density situations where 100% use of soft/plant based design may be impractical). The landscaping definition specific to commercial and industrial zones proposed via Council submission (proposed in Stage 2) makes it clear that the primary emphasis is on planting (while still allowing for alternatives where necessary).
Scott Blair
Changes to Definition (2) Chapter 15 - Commercial and Chapter 16 - Industrial
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Note: Mark Stevenson recommends two new definitions "Landscape area" and "Landscaping strip" but in evidence states - "suggested that the Panel reserve its decision on the merits of the definition of Landscaping pending consideration of the replacement proposed in Stage 2".
Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
Mark Stevenson
Council Position / Final definition wording Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson
Landscaping
except in the Commercial, Retail Park and Industrial Zones, means the provision of tree and/or shrub plantings and may include any ancillary lawn, water, rocks, paved areas or amenity features. In the Commercial, Retail Park and Industrial Zones, landscaping means the provision of predominantly trees and/or shrub plantings and
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may include some ancillary areas of lawn or other amenity features. Landscaped area and landscaping strip shall have the same meaning.
Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions (as Notified)
Place of assembly means the use of land and/or buildings principally for the public or private assembly of people for recreation, education, worship, culture or deliberation purposes and includes recreation and entertainment facilities, clubrooms, pavilions, school halls and auditoriums, churches and church halls, and community facilities such as community halls and libraries.
Building Community facility Entertainment facility Recreation facility
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1) Ch - 6A, 6B, 6C Temporary Activities 1B
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Unknown at this stage - SoI stage Statement of Issues issued 14/05/15 identifies this definition as being relevant for this Chapter.
Peter Eman
Changes to Definition (2) (Chapter 14 - Residential)
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Place of assembly means the use of land and/or buildings principally for the public or private assembly of people for recreation, education, worship, culture or deliberation purposes and includes recreation and entertainment facilities, clubrooms, pavilions, school halls and auditoriums, churches and church halls, and community facilities such as community halls and libraries.
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A
Scott Blair
Changes to Definition (3) (Chapter 14 - Residential)
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Place of assembly means the use of land and/or buildings used principally for the public or private assembly of people for recreational, education, worship spiritual, cultureal or deliberation purposes and includes recreation and entertainment facilities, clubrooms, pavilions, school halls and auditoriums, churches and church halls spiritual facilities, and community facilities such as community halls and libraries. Reliant Definitions: Building Community facility Entertainment facility Recreation facility Spiritual facility
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To improve grammar and alignment of the definition with other relevant definitions.
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Council Position / Final definition wording Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Scott Blair
Place of assembly
means the use of land and/or buildings used principally for the public or private assembly of people for recreation, education, worship, culture or deliberation purposes and includes recreation and entertainment facilities, clubrooms, pavilions, school halls and auditoriums, churches and church halls, and community facilities such as community halls and libraries.
Reliant Definitions Building Community facility Entertainment facility Recreation facility
Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions (as Notified)
Pre-school means land and/or buildings used for the education or care of four or more children (in addition to any children resident on the site or the children of the persons providing the education or care) under the age of six years by the day or part of a day, but not for any continuous period of more than seven consecutive days. Includes a crèche, after-school care facility, kindergarten, kohanga reo or play centre, but does not include a school.
Building Site
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1) Ch - 6A, 6B, 6C Temporary Activities 1B
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Unknown at this stage - SoI stage Statement of Issues issued 14/05/15 identifies this definition as being relevant for this Chapter.
Peter Eman
Changes to Definition (2) Chapter 14 - Residential
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Pre-school activity means the use of land and/or buildings used for the early childhood education or care of four three or more children (in addition to any children resident on the site or the children of the persons providing the education or care) under the age of six years by the day or part of a day, but not for any continuous period of more than seven consecutive days. Includes a crèche, after-school care facility, kindergarten, kohanga reo or play centre, but does not include a school.
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To standardise, in conjunction with the introduction of Pre-school facility, the name and content with that of other definitions (e.g. Recreation activity and Recreation facility) which recognise that the activity can occur independent of a building; provide for community activities that occur in schools; make more consistent with Ministry of Education terminology (to make clear that 'early childhood' and 'pre-school' mean the same thing); and delete that part (the last sentence) included in the Pre- school facility definition.
Scott Blair
Changes to Definition (3) Chapter 15 - Source of Changes Chapter Lead
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Commercial and Chapter 16 - Industrial
Pre-school means land and/or buildings used for the education or care of four or more children (in addition to any children resident on the site or the children of the persons providing the education or care) under the age of six years by the day or part of a day, but not for any continuous period of more than seven consecutive days. Includes a crèche, after-school care facility, kindergarten, kohanga reo or play centre, but does not include a school.
Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 495 (FS1420, FS1294, FS1270), The Crown).
Mark Stevenson
Council Position / Final definition wording Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Scott Blair and Mark Stevenson
means the use of land and/or buildings used for the early childhood education or care of more than four or more children (in addition to any children resident on the site or the children of the persons providing the education or care) under the age of six years by the day or part of a day, but not for any continuous period of more than seven consecutive days. Includes a crèche, after-school care facility, kindergarten, kohanga reo or play centre, but does not include a school.
Reliant Definitions Building Site
Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions (as Notified)
Sensitive activities means: a. in relation to electricity-related assets:
i. residential activities;
ii. education activities including pre‐schools;
iii. guest accommodation;
iv. health care facilities and any elderly persons’ housing units or
complex.
b. in relation to noise:
i. residential activities, including family flats and any elderly persons'
housing units or complex, but excluding those in conjunction with
rural activities that comply with the rules in the relevant district plans
as at 23 August 2008;
ii. education activities including pre-schools, but not including flight
training or other trade and industry training facilities located on land
zoned or legally used for commercial or industrial activities;
iii. guest accommodation, except that which is designed, constructed and
operated to a standard to mitigate the effects of aircraft noise on
occupants within the airport noise contours;
iv. health care facilities; and
v. any one or more of the following activities located in the Port
Accessory building Care facility Commercial activities District Plan Education activity Elderly person’s housing unit Guest accommodation Health care facility Hospital Industrial activity Pre-school Residential activity Residential unit Rural activity Trade and industry training facility
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Influences Overlay Area shown on the planning maps:
A. residential unit or family flat, a habitable accessory building, or a
residential activity;
B. elderly persons’ housing complex or care facility;
C. education activities;
D. any health care facilities, including hospitals or convalescent
homes, that contain sleeping facilities for any person; and
E. guest accommodation.
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1) Chapter 14 - Residential
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Sensitive activities means:
a. in relation to hazardous substances and
electricity-related assets:
i. residential activities;
ii. education activities including pre‐
schools facilities;
iii. guest accommodation;
iv. health care facilities and any
elderly persons’ housing units or
complex.
b. in relation to noise:
i. residential activities, including
family flats and any elderly
persons' housing units or
complex, but excluding those in
conjunction with rural activities
that comply with the rules in the
relevant district plans as at 23
August 2008;
ii. education activities including pre-
schools facilities, but not
including flight training or other
trade and industry training
facilities located on land zoned or
legally used for commercial or
industrial activities;
iii. guest accommodation, except
that which is designed,
constructed and operated to a
standard to mitigate the effects
of aircraft noise on occupants
within the airport noise contours;
iv. health care facilities; and
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F Notes reason for change in Stage 2: To define sensitive activities with respect to hazardous substances; and align the definition with Stage 2's Pre-school facility and the absence of a Family flat definition (no longer necessary as the result of LURP actions).
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v. any one or more of the following
activities located in the Port
Influences Overlay Area shown
on the planning maps:
A. residential unit or family
flat, a habitable accessory
building, or a residential
activity;
B. elderly persons’ housing
complex or care facility;
C. education activities;
D. any health care facilities,
including hospitals or
convalescent homes, that
contain sleeping facilities
for any person; and
E. guest accommodation
Reliant Definitions:
Accessory building Building Care facility Commercial activities District Plan Education activity Elderly person’s housing unit Guest accommodation Hazardous substance Health care facility Hospital Industrial activity Pre-school facility Residential activity Residential unit Rural activity Trade and industry training facility
Changes to Definition (2) Chapter 15 - Commercial and Chapter 16 - Industrial
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Sensitive activities means: c. in relation to electricity-related assets:
v. residential activities;
vi. education activities including pre‐
schools;
vii. guest accommodation;
viii. health care facilities and any
elderly persons’ housing units or
Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council; 495 (FS1420, FS1294, FS1270, FS 1444, FS1295, FS 1339 and FS1359), The Crown; 774, Liquigas Ltd; 832 (FS1339 and FS1339), Transpower NZ Ltd; 863 (FS1453,
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complex.
d. in relation to noise:
vi. residential activities, including
family flats and any elderly
persons' housing units or
complex, but excluding those in
conjunction with rural activities
that comply with the rules in the
relevant district plans as at 23
August 2008;
vii. education activities including pre-
schools, but not including flight
training or other trade and
industry training facilities located
on land zoned or legally used for
commercial or industrial
activities;
viii. guest accommodation, except
that which is designed,
constructed and operated to a
standard to mitigate the effects
of aircraft noise on occupants
within the airport noise contours;
ix. health care facilities; and
x. any one or more of the following
activities located in the Port
Influences Overlay Area shown
on the planning maps:
A. residential unit or family
flat, a habitable accessory
building, or a residential
activity;
B. elderly persons’ housing
complex or care facility;
C. education activities
including pre schools;
D. any health care facilities,
including hospitals or
convalescent homes, that
contain sleeping facilities
for any person; and
E. guest accommodation.
FS1435, FS1434, FS1315, FS1314, FS1351 and FS1357), CIAL; 897 (FS1444, 1277 and FS1359), KiwiRail; 915, Lyttelton Port Company; 922, Orion NZ; 1014 (FS1379, FS1346 and FS1450), Gelita NZ).
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Sensitive activities
means: i. Residential activities;
ii. Education activities;
iii. Guest accommodation; and
iv. Health care facilities;
v. Custodial correction facilities with overnight accommodation
But excludes in relation to airport noise
(a) Any residential activities in conjunction with rural activities
that comply with the rules in the relevant district plans as at 23
August 2008;
(b) flight training or other trade and industry training facilities
located on land zoned or legally used for commercial or
industrial activities; and
(c) Guest accommodation, which is designed, constructed and
operated to a standard to mitigate the effects of aircraft noise
on occupant
(d) Health care facilities with no accommodation for overnight
care.
e. in relation to electricity-related assets:
ix. residential activities;
x. education activities including pre‐schools;
xi. guest accommodation;
xii. health care facilities and any elderly persons’ housing
units or complex.
f. in relation to noise:
xi. residential activities, including family flats and any elderly
persons' housing units or complex, but excluding those in
conjunction with rural activities that comply with the rules
in the relevant district plans as at 23 August 2008;
xii. education activities including pre-schools, but not
including flight training or other trade and industry
training facilities located on land zoned or legally used for
commercial or industrial activities;
xiii. guest accommodation, except that which is designed,
constructed and operated to a standard to mitigate the
effects of aircraft noise on occupants within the airport
noise contours;
xiv. health care facilities; and
Reliant Definitions Accessory building Care facility Commercial activities District Plan Education activity Elderly person’s housing unit Guest accommodation Health care facility Hospital Industrial activity Pre-school Residential activity Residential unit Rural activity Trade and industry training facility
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xv. any one or more of the following activities located in the
Port Influences Overlay Area shown on the planning maps:
F. residential unit or family flat, a habitable accessory
building, or a residential activity;
G. elderly persons’ housing complex or care facility;
H. education activities;
I. any health care facilities, including hospitals or
convalescent homes, that contain sleeping facilities
for any person; and
J. guest accommodation.
Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions (as Notified)
Service station means any site where the primary activity is the retail sale of motor vehicle fuels, including petrol, LPG, CNG and diesel, and may include any one or more of the following ancillary activities:
a. the sale or hire of kerosene, alcohol based fuels, lubricating oils, tyres,
batteries, vehicle spare parts, trailers and other accessories normally
associated with motor vehicles;
b. the mechanical repair, servicing and cleaning of motor vehicles (other
than heavy vehicles) and domestic garden equipment but not panel
beating, spray painting and heavy engineering such as engine reboring
and crankshaft grinding;
c. truck stops;
d. inspection and certification of motor vehicles;
e. the ancillary sale of other goods for the convenience and comfort of
service station customers;
f. but shall not include any industrial activity.
Heavy vehicle Industrial activity Site
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1)Chapter 14 - Residential
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Service station means any site where the primary activity is the retail sale of motor vehicle fuels, including petrol, LPG, CNG and diesel, and may include any one or more of the following ancillary activities:
a. the sale or hire of kerosene, alcohol
based fuels, lubricating oils, tyres,
batteries, vehicle spare parts, trailers and
other accessories normally associated
with motor vehicles;
b. the mechanical repair, servicing and
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure A (response to submission number 723 (evidence of Karen Blair))
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cleaning of motor vehicles (other than
heavy vehicles) and domestic garden
equipment but not panel beating, spray
painting and heavy engineering such as
engine reboring and crankshaft grinding;
c. truck stops;
d. inspection and certification of motor
vehicles; the ancillary sale of other goods
for the convenience and comfort of
service station customers; where the
public floor area devoted to their display
or sale does not exceed 250 square
metres, unless a greater floor area is
otherwise provided for in the zone;
e. but shall not include any industrial
activity.
Changes to Definition (2) Chapter 15 - Commercial and Chapter 16 - Industrial
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Service station means any site where the primary activity is the retail sale of motor vehicle fuels, including petrol, LPG, CNG and diesel, and may include any one or more of the following ancillary activities:
a. the sale or hire of kerosene, alcohol
based fuels, lubricating oils, tyres,
batteries, vehicle spare parts, trailers
and other accessories normally
associated with motor vehicles;
b. the mechanical repair, servicing and
cleaning of motor vehicles (other than
heavy vehicles) and domestic garden
equipment but not panel beating,
spray painting and heavy engineering
such as engine reboring and
crankshaft grinding;
c. truck stops;
d. inspection and certification of motor
vehicles;
e. the ancillary sale of other goods for
the convenience and comfort of
service station customers;
f. but shall not include any industrial
activity.
Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 397, Rockgas Ltd; 723, Mobil NZ Ltd, Z Energy Ltd and BP Oil NZ Ltd; 988 (FS1270), Mobil Oil NZ Ltd).
Mark Stevenson
Council Position / Final definition wording
Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson
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Service station
means any site where the primary activity is the retail sale of motor vehicle fuels, including petrol, LPG, CNG and diesel, and may include any one or more of the following ancillary activities: a. the sale or hire of kerosene, alcohol based fuels, lubricating oils,
tyres, batteries, vehicle spare parts, trailers and other accessories
normally associated with motor vehicles;
b. the mechanical repair, servicing and cleaning of motor vehicles
(other than heavy vehicles) and domestic garden equipment but
not panel beating, spray painting and heavy engineering such as
engine reboring and crankshaft grinding;
c. truck stops;
d. inspection and certification of motor vehicles;
e. the ancillary sale of other goods for the convenience and comfort
of service station customers;
f. but shall not include any industrial activity.
Reliant Definitions Heavy vehicle Industrial activity Site
Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions (as Notified)
Site means an area of land or volume of space shown on a plan with defined boundaries, whether legally or otherwise defined boundaries, and includes: a. an area of land which is:
i. comprised in a single allotment, or other legally defined parcel of
land, and held in a single certificate of title; or
ii. comprised in a single allotment or legally defined parcel of land for
which a separate certificate of title could be issued without further
consent of the Council;
being in any case the smaller land area of (i) or (ii); or b. an area of land which comprises two or more adjoining legally defined
parcels of land held together in one certificate of title in such a way that
the lots cannot be dealt with separately without prior consent of the
Council; or
c. an area of land which is comprised of two or more adjoining certificates
of title where such titles are:
i. subject to a condition imposed under Section 77 of the Building Act
2004 or;
ii. held together in such a way that they cannot be dealt with
separately without the prior consent of the Council;
d. in the case of land subdivided under the cross lease or company lease
systems (other than strata titles), site shall mean an area of land
containing:
i. a building or buildings for residential or business purposes with any
accessory building(s), plus any land exclusively restricted to the
Access Accessory building Adjoining Allotment Boundary Building Council Legally defined parcel of land Lot Residential unit Subdivision
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users of that/those building(s); or
ii. a remaining share or shares in the fee simple creating a vacant
part(s) of the whole for future cross lease or company lease
purposes; and
e. in the case of land subdivided under the Unit Titles Act 2010 (other than
strata titles), site shall mean an area of land containing a principal unit or
proposed unit on a unit plan together with its accessory units; and
f. in the case of strata titles, or where one or more residential unit is
proposed to be erected above another residential unit, site shall mean
the underlying certificate of title of the entire land containing the strata
titles, immediately prior to subdivision.
Site also shall include the access to the site.
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1) Ch - 6A, 6B, 6C Temporary Activities 1B
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Unknown at this stage - SoI stage Statement of Issues issued 14/05/15 identifies this definition as being relevant for this Chapter.
Peter Eman
Changes to Definition (2) Chapter 14 - Residential
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Site means an area of land or volume of space shown on a plan with defined boundaries, whether legally or otherwise defined boundaries, and includes:
a. an area of land which is:
i. comprised in a single allotment,
or other legally defined parcel of
land, and held in a single
certificate of title; or
ii. comprised in a single allotment
or legally defined parcel of land
for which a separate certificate
of title could be issued without
further consent of the Council;
being in any case the smaller land area of (i) or (ii); or
b. an area of land which comprises two
or more adjoining legally defined
parcels of land held together in one
certificate of title in such a way that
the lots cannot be dealt with
separately without prior consent of
the Council; or
c. an area of land which is comprised of
two or more adjoining certificates of
Hearing - Council closing legal submissions dated 23 April 2015: Annexure F Notes reason for change in Stage 2: This clause, in its original form, was deleted from the Stage 1 definition because the Specific Purpose (Tertiary Education) Zone wasn't being reviewed until Stage 2. Reinstated and reworded to resolve a debate over the meaning of the operative wording of Site when a particular facility (e.g. University of Canterbury or a school like Christs College) owns/uses several physical sites (i.e. the site of an activity could extend to encompass more than one physical site); and to limit it to particular facilities so that, for example, CPIT couldn't put its hostels on UC land as of right.
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title where such titles are:
i. subject to a condition imposed
under Section 77 of the Building
Act 2004 or;
ii. held together in such a way that
they cannot be dealt with
separately without the prior
consent of the Council;
d. in the case of land subdivided under
the cross lease or company lease
systems (other than strata titles), site
shall mean an area of land containing:
i. a building or buildings for
residential or business purposes
with any accessory building(s),
plus any land exclusively
restricted to the users of
that/those building(s); or
ii. a remaining share or shares in
the fee simple creating a vacant
part(s) of the whole for future
cross lease or company lease
purposes; and
e. in the case of land subdivided under
the Unit Titles Act 2010 (other than
strata titles), site shall mean an area
of land containing a principal unit or
proposed unit on a unit plan together
with its accessory units; and
f. in the case of strata titles, or where
one or more residential unit is
proposed to be erected above
another residential unit, site shall
mean the underlying certificate of
title of the entire land containing the
strata titles, immediately prior to
subdivision.; and
g. for the purposes of the activity
standards (but not the built form or
general city-wide standards) in the
Specific Purposes (Schools) and Specific
Purposes (Tertiary Education) Zones,
site means all of the land used by a
particular education or tertiary
education or research facility, whether
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or not those parcels of land are
contiguous with each other.
Site also shall include the access to the site.
Reliant Definitions:
Access Accessory building Adjoining Allotment Boundary Building Council Education facility Legally defined parcel of land Lot Residential unit Subdivision
Tertiary education or research facility
Changes to Definition (3) Chapter 8 - Subdivision
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Site means an area of land or volume of space shown on a plan with defined boundaries, whether legally or otherwise defined boundaries, and includes:
a. an area of land which is:
iii. comprised in a single
allotment, or other legally
defined parcel of land, and
held in a single certificate of
title; or
iv. comprised in a single
allotment or legally defined
parcel of land for which a
separate certificate of title
could be issued without
further consent of the Council;
being in any case the smaller land area of (i) or (ii); or
b. an area of land which comprises two
or more adjoining legally defined
parcels of land held together in one
certificate of title in such a way that
the lots cannot be dealt with
separately without prior consent of
the Council; or
c. an area of land which is comprised of
Hearing - evidence in chief dated 21 May 2015: submission accept / reject table (note changes are proposed under sub section e.)
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two or more adjoining certificates of
title where such titles are:
iii. subject to a condition imposed
under Section 77 of the
Building Act 2004 or;
iv. held together in such a way
that they cannot be dealt with
separately without the prior
consent of the Council;
d. in the case of land subdivided under
the cross lease or company lease
systems (other than strata titles), site
shall mean an area of land containing:
iii. a building or buildings for
residential or business
purposes with any accessory
building(s), plus any land
exclusively restricted to the
users of that/those building(s);
or
iv. a remaining share or shares in
the fee simple creating a
vacant part(s) of the whole for
future cross lease or company
lease purposes; and
e. in the case of land subdivided under
the Unit Titles Act 1972 and Unit Titles
Act 2010 (other than strata titles), site
shall mean an area of land containing
a principal unit or proposed unit on a
unit plan together with its accessory
units and common area; and
f. in the case of strata titles, or where
one or more residential unit is
proposed to be erected above
another residential unit, site shall
mean the underlying certificate of
title of the entire land containing the
strata titles, immediately prior to
subdivision.
Site also shall include the access to the site.
Council Position / Final definition wording Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Scott Blair
Site means an area of land or volume of space shown on a plan with defined
Reliant Definitions Access
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boundaries, whether legally or otherwise defined boundaries, and includes:
a. an area of land which is:
v. comprised in a single allotment, or other legally defined
parcel of land, and held in a single certificate of title; or
vi. comprised in a single allotment or legally defined parcel
of land for which a separate certificate of title could be
issued without further consent of the Council;
being in any case the smaller land area of (i) or (ii); or b. an area of land which comprises two or more adjoining legally
defined parcels of land held together in one certificate of title
in such a way that the lots cannot be dealt with separately
without prior consent of the Council; or
c. an area of land which is comprised of two or more adjoining
certificates of title where such titles are:
v. subject to a condition imposed under Section 77 of the
Building Act 2004 or;
vi. held together in such a way that they cannot be dealt
with separately without the prior consent of the Council;
d. in the case of land subdivided under the cross lease or
company lease systems (other than strata titles), site shall
mean an area of land containing:
v. a building or buildings for residential or business
purposes with any accessory building(s), plus any land
exclusively restricted to the users of that/those
building(s); or
vi. a remaining share or shares in the fee simple creating a
vacant part(s) of the whole for future cross lease or
company lease purposes; and
e. in the case of land subdivided under the Unit Titles Act 1972
and Unit Titles Act 2010 (other than strata titles), site shall
mean an area of land containing a principal unit or proposed
unit on a unit plan together with its accessory units and
common area; and
f. in the case of strata titles, or where one or more residential
unit is proposed to be erected above another residential unit,
site shall mean the underlying certificate of title of the entire
land containing the strata titles, immediately prior to
subdivision; and
g. for the purposes of the activity standards (but not the built
form or general city-wide standards) in the Specific Purposes
(Schools) and Specific Purposes (Tertiary Education) Zones,
site means all of the land used by a particular education or
tertiary education or research facility, whether or not those
parcels of land are contiguous with each other.
Accessory building Adjoining Allotment Boundary Building Council Education facility Legally defined parcel of land Lot Residential unit Subdivision Tertiary education or research facility
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Site also shall include the access to the site.
Definition as Notified Reliant Definitions (as Notified)
Yard-based supplier means any retail activity selling or hiring products for construction or external use (which, for the avoidance of doubt, includes activities such as sale of vehicles and garden supplies), where more than 50% of the area devoted to sales or display is located in covered or uncovered external yard or forecourt space as distinct from within a secured and weatherproofed building. For the purpose of this definition, areas of a site providing rear access and all other areas devoted to customer, staff and service vehicle access and parking (including parking driveways) are not to be included in the extent of yard area devoted to sales or display. Drive-in or drive-through covered areas devoted to storage and display of construction materials (including covered vehicle lanes) will be deemed yard space for the purpose of this definition.
Access Building Site Vehicle access
Definition submitted on? Yes
Changes to Definition (1) Chapter 7 - Transport
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Yard-based supplier means any retail activity the use of any land and/or building for selling or hiring products for construction or external use (which, for the avoidance of doubt, includes activities such as sale of vehicles and garden supplies), where more than 50% of the area devoted to sales or display is located in covered or uncovered external yard or forecourt space as distinct from within a secured and weatherproofed building. For the purpose of this definition, areas of a site providing rear access and all other areas devoted to customer, staff and service vehicle access and parking (including parking driveways) are not to be included in the extent of yard area devoted to sales or display. Drive-in or drive-through covered areas devoted to storage and display of construction materials (including covered vehicle lanes) will be deemed yard space area for the purpose of this definition.
Council Revised Proposal dated 14 May 2015 Notes addresses submission #310 Christchurch City Council.
David Falconer
Changes to Definition (2) Chapter 15 - Commercial and Chapter 16 - Industrial
Source of Changes Chapter Lead
Yard-based supplier means any retail activity the use of any land and/or building for selling or hiring products for construction or external use (which, for the avoidance of doubt, includes activities such as sale of vehicles and garden supplies),
Hearing - Evidence of Mark Stevenson: Attachment E dated 13 April 2015 (response to submission number 310, Christchurch City Council).
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where more than 50% of the area devoted to sales or display is located in covered or uncovered external yard or forecourt space as distinct from within a secured and weatherproofed building. For the purpose of this definition, areas of a site providing rear access and all other areas devoted to customer, staff and service vehicle access and parking (including parking driveways) are not to be included in the extent of yard area devoted to sales or display. Drive-in or drive-through covered areas devoted to storage and display of construction materials (including covered vehicle lanes) will be deemed yard space for the purpose of this definition.
Council Position / Final definition wording Definitions Hearing - evidence in chief Mark Stevenson Yard-based supplier means any retail activity the use of any land and/or building for selling or hiring products for construction or external use (which, for the avoidance of doubt, includes activities such as sale of vehicles and garden supplies), where more than 50% of the area devoted to sales or display is located in covered or uncovered external yard or forecourt space as distinct from within a secured and weatherproofed building. For the purpose of this definition, areas of a site providing rear access and all other areas devoted to customer, staff and service vehicle access and parking (including parking driveways) are not to be included in the extent of yard area devoted to sales or display. Drive-in or drive-through covered areas devoted to storage and display of construction materials (including covered vehicle lanes) will be deemed yard space area for the purpose of this definition.
Reliant Definitions Access Building Site Vehicle access
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Appendix 8: Stage 1 definitions subject to amendment in Stages 2 or 3
Stage 1 (27/8/14) Chapter 2: Definitions (part)
Stage 2 (2/5/15) Chapter 2: Definitions (part)
Stage 3 Chapter 2: Definitions (part)
Stage 4: SP (Lyttelton Port) Zone (insertion likely via LPRP)
Accessory building
Accessory building (non-residential activity)
Accessory building (residential activity)
Approved building Approved building
Building Building
Care facility Care facilities
Community facility Community facility
Community infrastructure
Community infrastructure
Dripline Dripline
Earthworks Earthworks
Education activity Education activity
Entertainment activity
Entertainment activity
External sound insulation level
Dtr,2m,nTw
Dtr,2m,nT,w+Ctr
Health care facility Health care facility
Height Height
Hospital Hospital
Indigenous vegetation
Indigenous vegetation
Industrial activity Industrial activity
Landscaping Landscaping
Mineral extraction activity
Quarrying activity
Outdoor advertisement
Sign/Signage
Place of assembly Place of assembly
Port activities Port activities
Pre-school Pre-school activity
Public artwork Public artwork
Recreation activity Recreation activity
Recreation facility Recreation facility
Relocation of a building
Relocation of a building
Sensitive activities Sensitive activities
Site Site
Spiritual facility Spiritual activity
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Stage 1 (27/8/14) Chapter 2: Definitions (part)
Stage 2 (2/5/15) Chapter 2: Definitions (part)
Stage 3 Chapter 2: Definitions (part)
Stage 4: SP (Lyttelton Port) Zone (insertion likely via LPRP)
Surface water management structure
Surface water management structure
Temporary buildings and activities
Temporary activities and buildings
Tertiary education and research activity
Tertiary education and research activity
Trade and industry training facility
Trade and industry training facility
Transport system Transport system
Utility Utility
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Appendix 9: Redline version of the Definitions Proposal
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Key
Text shown in Green shows amendments to the Definitions Proposal made by decisions released by the Panel to
date.
Text shown in Red shows amendments proposed by the Council to the Definitions Proposal in this hearing.
Chapter 2 Abbreviations and Definitions (part)
(a) Abbreviations List
AEP
means annual exceedance probability
AIFR
means annual individual fatality risk.
CHRM
means community housing redevelopment mechanism.
EDM
means enhanced development mechanism.
FTE
means full time equivalent.
GFA
means gross floor area
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GLFA
means gross leasable floor area
PFA
means public floor area
WELS
means the Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme standards
developed by the Ministry for the Environment (as at the date of
public notification of this Plan).
(b) Definitions List
This part of the District Plan explains the extended meaning of words and phrases developed specifically for, and
as used in the context of, the Plan. Definitions only apply where identified via underlining/hyperlinking. In all
other instances, words and phrases used in the Plan are best defined using their ordinary dictionary meaning.
It also explains, for information purposes only, the abbreviations used with respect to some definitions.
Please note:
1. Where a word or phrase is defined in this chapter, its definition includes any variations of the word or phrase
that are plural or vice versa.
2. Where a word or phrase is defined in NZ government legislation or related documents arising therefrom,
and is relied upon for the purpose of interpretation in this Plan, these terms are identified accordingly and
quoted for information purposes only. These definitions were current at the time of the notification of the
Plan. Users should refer to the latest version of the relevant legislation.
3. Other definitions on which each definition relies (Reliant definitions) or is related to (Related definitions) are
identified for information purposes, to assist their interpretation and to illustrate the interrelationship between
some definitions.
4. Please refer to Section 3 Manawhenua of Chapter 1 Introduction for an explanation of Māori
terms and concepts relevant to the management of natural resources within the Christchurch
District.
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A
Access
As notified Reliant definitions
means that area of land over which vehicular and/or pedestrian access
to legal road is obtained and includes:
a. an access strip;
b. an access lot; and
c. a right-of-way
but does not include a new neighbourhood entry lot.
Access lot
Access strip
Lot
New neighbourhood
entry lot
Right-of-way
Road
Access - (M.E.D.)
means that area of land over which vehicular and/or pedestrian
access to legal road is obtained and includes:
a. an access strip;
b. an access lot; and
c. a right-of-way
Accessibility
means the ability (for all people, including people with disabilities) to
reach a location or service within a reasonable amount of time, cost
and effort.
Accessible
Means the ability to for all people, including people with
disabilities, to reach a location within a reasonable amount of time.
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Access lot
Reliant definitions
means any separate lot used primarily for access to a lot or lots
having no legal frontage. However, if that area of land is wider than
6m and not legally encumbered to prevent the construction of
buildings, it is excluded from the definition of access lot.
Access
Boundary
Building
Frontage
Lot
Related definitions
Access strip
Accessory building - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means a building which is incidental to the principal building
or buildings on the site. In respect of land used for residential
activity, accessory building includes a sleep-out, garage or
carport, shed, glasshouse, fence, solar panels and solar
water-heating devices not attached to a building and an indoor
swimming pool, but not a family flat, balcony or similar
structure (whether free-standing or attached to any building).
An accessory building is not a residential unit.
Building - (M.E.D.)
Residential activity -
(M.E.D.)
Residential unit -
(M.E.D.)
Site - (M.E.D.)
Accessory building (non-residential activity)
Reliant definitions
means a building which is incidental to the principal building or
buildings on the site. In respect of land used for residential activity,
accessory building includes a sleep-out, garage or carport, shed,
glasshouse, fence, solar panels and solar water-heating devices
not attached to a building and an indoor swimming pool, but not
a family flat, balcony or similar structure (whether free-standing
or attached to any building). An accessory building is not a
residential unit. On a vacant site, accessory building is a building
that is ancillary or accessory to any activity that may be
permitted on a site regardless of whether the principal building
or buildings have yet to be constructed.
Balcony
Building
Garage
Principal building
Residential activity
Residential unit
Site
Sleep-out
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Accessory building (residential activity)
Reliant definitions
means a building which is incidental to the principal building or
buildings on the site. In respect of land used for residential
activity, accessory building includes a sleep-out, garage or
carport, shed, glasshouse, fence, solar panels and solar water-
heating devices not detached from a building and an indoor
swimming pool. Accessory building does not include a balcony
or similar structure (whether free-standing or attached to any
building). An accessory building is not a residential unit. On a
vacant site, accessory building is a building that is ancillary or
accessory to any activity that may be permitted on a site
regardless of whether the principal building or buildings have yet
to be constructed.
Balcony
Building
Garage
Principal building
Residential activity
Residential unit
Site
Sleep-out
Access strip
Reliant definitions
means an access lot or an area of land defined by a legal instrument
providing or intended to provide access to a site or sites. However, if
that area of land is wider than 6m and not legally encumbered to
prevent the construction of buildings, it is excluded from the definition
of access strip.
Access
Access lot
Building
Lot
Site
Related definitions
Right-of-way
Access way
Reliant definitions
means an area of land set aside for pedestrian access between a
road, service lane, reserve, railway station or public place; and
another road, service lane, reserve, railway station or public place.
Access
Reserve
Road
Service lane
Act
means the Resource Management Act 1991.
Active transport
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Related definitions
means transport modes that rely on human power, primarily walking
and cycling.
Travel plan
Addiction services
Means, in relation to the Salvation Army site in Addington,
services, including overnight accommodation, for clients attending
a counselling programme for alcohol, drugs or gambling addiction.
Adjoining
Reliant definitions
includes land separated from other land only by a road, railway,
drain, water race, river or stream.
Road
AEP
Reliant definitions
(see Annual exceedance probability)
Annual exceedance
probability
Alcohol licence
Related definitions
means any licence under the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act
2012.
Hotel
Restaurant
Tavern
Allotment
[has the same meaning as s218 of the Resource Management Act
1991]
Reliant definitions
means—
a. any parcel of land under the Land Transfer Act 1952 that is a
continuous area and whose boundaries are shown separately on a
survey plan, whether or not—
i. the subdivision shown on the survey plan has been
Subdivision
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allowed, or subdivision approval has been granted, under
another Act; or
ii. a subdivision consent for the subdivision shown on the
survey plan has been granted under this Act; or
b. any parcel of land or building or part of a building that is
shown or identified separately—
iii. on a survey plan; or
iv. on a licence within the meaning of Part 7A of the Land
Transfer Act 1952; or
c. any unit on a unit plan; or
d. any parcel of land not subject to the Land Transfer Act 1952;
except that, for the purpose of this Plan, in the case of:
e. land being subdivided, the word "allotment" shall be extended
to include an area of land or volume of space, the boundaries
of which are separately shown on a plan submitted with an
application for subdivision consent, including two or more
areas (whether adjoining or not) which are held, intended to
be held, or required to be held together in a single certificate
of title, and any balance area;
f. land being subdivided under the cross lease or company
lease systems or the Unit Titles Act 2010, the word allotment
shall be extended to have the same meaning as site.
Lot shall have the same meaning as allotment.
Allotment - (M.E.D.)
[has the same meaning as s218 of the Resource Management Act
1991]
Reliant definitions
means—
a. any parcel of land under the Land Transfer Act 1952 that is a
continuous area and whose boundaries are shown separately
on a survey plan, whether or not—
v. the subdivision shown on the survey plan has been
allowed, or subdivision approval has been granted,
under another Act; or
vi. a subdivision consent for the subdivision shown on
the survey plan has been granted under this Act; or
b. any parcel of land or building or part of a building that is
shown or identified separately—
vii. on a survey plan; or
viii. on a licence within the meaning of Part 7A of the
Land Transfer Act 1952; or
c. any unit on a unit plan; or
d. any parcel of land not subject to the Land Transfer Act
Subdivision - (M.E.D.)
Building - (M.E.D.)
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1952;
except that, for the purpose of this Plan, in the case of:
e. land being subdivided, the word "allotment" shall be
extended to include an area of land or volume of space,
the boundaries of which are separately shown on a plan
submitted with an application for subdivision consent,
including two or more areas (whether adjoining or not)
which are held, intended to be held, or required to be
held together in a single certificate of title, and any
balance area;
f. land being subdivided under the cross lease or company
lease systems or the Unit Titles Act 2010, the word
allotment shall be extended to have the same meaning as
site.
Lot shall have the same meaning as allotment.
Amenity values
[has the same meaning as in s 2 of the Resource Management Act
1991]
means those natural or physical qualities and characteristics of an
area that contribute to people's appreciation of its pleasantness,
aesthetic coherence, and cultural and recreational attributes.
Anchor store
Reliant definitions
means a supermarket or department store. Department store
Supermarket
Related definitions
Retail activity
Ancillary
means any activity that is incidental to a lawfully established activity
on the same site.
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Ancillary office activity
Reliant definitions
means any office activity that is incidental to a permitted or
consented activity on the same site and which forms an
inseparable part of the business occupying the site.
Office
Site
Related definitions
Ancillary retail activity
Ancillary retail activity
Reliant definitions
means any retail activity that is incidental to a permitted or
consented activity on the same site and which forms an
inseparable part of the business occupying the site.
Retail activity
Site
Related definitions
Ancillary office activity
Commercial activities
Convenience activities
Drive-through services
Retail activity
Retailing
Annual exceedance probability (AEP)
Related definitions
means the probability that a flood event of a certain scale will occur in
any given year.
Floor level and fill
management area
High flood hazard
Major flood event
Annual individual fatality risk
means the probability or likelihood that an individual will be killed at
their place of residence in any one year as a result of cliff collapse,
rockfall or boulder roll or mass movement.
Apartment
Reliant definitions
in relation to a New Neighbourhood Zone, means a residential
building that contains two or more residential units where those units
are aligned vertically one on top of the other.
Residential unit
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Related definitions
Duplex
Standalone house
Terrace
Apartment - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
in relation to a New Neighbourhood Zone, means a residential
building that contains two or more residential units where those
units are aligned vertically one on top of the other.
Residential unit -
(M.E.D.)
Related definitions
Duplex - (M.E.D.)
Standalone house -
(M.E.D.)
Terrace - (M.E.D.)
Approved building
Reliant definitions
means any building associated with a permitted activity or approved as
part of a resource consent.
Building
Related definitions
Accessory building
Temporary buildings
and activities
Archaeological site
[has the same meaning as in s 2 of the Historic Places Act 1993]
means any place in New Zealand that-
a. either-
ix. was associated with human activity that occurred before
1900; or
x. is the site of the wreck of any vessel where that wreck
occurred before 1900; and
b. is or may be able through investigation by archaeological
methods to provide evidence relating to the history of New
Zealand.
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Arterial roads
Reliant definitions
means both major and minor arterial roads. Major arterial road
Minor arterial road
Road
Related definitions
Critical infrastructure
Strategic infrastructure
Articulation
Reliant definitions
means the use of architectural details such as verandahs, porches,
doors, gargoyles, windows, balconies, building materials, texture and
colour to visually distinguish elements of the building and give vertical
and/or horizontal emphasis to these features. An example illustration
is provided in Figure 2.1 below.
Figure 2.1 Example illustration of articulation.
Balcony
Building
Related definitions
Modulation
Automotive and/or marine supplier
Related definitions
means a business primarily engaged in selling automotive vehicles
and/or marine craft, accessories to and parts for such vehicles and
craft and includes suppliers of:
1. boats and boating accessories;
2. cars and motor cycles;
3. auto parts and accessories;
4. trailers and caravans; and/or
5. tyres and batteries.
Motor servicing facility
Trade supplier
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B
Balcony
Reliant definitions
means a structure which is part of a building, above ground floor level,
roofed or unroofed and completely open to the weather on at least one
side, except for a balustrade. For the purposes of residential activities,
the structure must have direct and reasonable access to the residential
unit which it serves.
Building
Residential activity
Residential unit
Related definitions
Accessory building
Banks Peninsula
Reliant definitions
means that part of Christchurch District within the Banks Peninsula
Ward, as shown on Appendix 2.1.
Christchurch District
Related definitions
Christchurch District
excluding Banks
Peninsula Ward
Greater Christchurch
area of Christchurch
District
Bed and Breakfast
Means the use of a residential unit for the provision of
accommodation, at a tariff, for up to six guests. Accommodation
shall be provided for up to a maximum period of three months and at
least one owner of the residential unit shall reside permanently on
site.
Birdstrike
means when a bird or flock of birds collide with an aircraft.
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Boarding House
means one or more buildings providing accommodation on a site
whose aggregated total contains more than 2 boarding rooms
occupied by at least 6 tenants who are at the property at any one
time.
Boarding room
means accommodation in a boarding house that is used as sleeping
quarters by 1 or more people and that it is for use only by a person
or persons whose tenancy agreement relates to that room.
Boundary
Reliant definitions
means any boundary of the net site area of a site. Site boundary or
boundaries of a site shall have the same meaning as boundary.
a. Internal boundary means any boundary of the net site area of a
site other than a road boundary.
b. Road boundary means any boundary of a site abutting a legal
road (other than an access way or service lane), road reserve
or road designation.
Frontage or road frontage shall have the same meaning as road
boundary.
Where a point strip exists between a site and any road or internal
boundary, any building setback or recession plane requirement shall
apply as if the point strip does not exist
Access way
Building
Frontage
Net site area
Point strip
Road
Road reserve
Service lane
Setback
Site
Site boundary
Related definitions
Building line restriction
Gross leasable floor
area
Legally defined parcel
of land
Public floor area
Vehicle crossing
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Boundary - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means any boundary of the net site area of a site. Site boundary
or boundaries of a site shall have the same meaning as boundary.
Net site area - (M.E.D.)
Site - (M.E.D.)
Brownfield
Reliant definitions
means abandoned or underutilised commercial or previously used
industrial land or commercial land, or land no longer required by a
requiring authority for a designated purpose.
Commercial activities
Industrial activity
Building
Reliant definitions
means as the context requires:
a. any structure or part of a structure whether permanent,
moveable or immoveable; and/or
b. any use, erection, reconstruction, placement, alteration or
demolition of any structure or part of any structure in, on, under
or over the land;
c. any vehicle, trailer, tent, marquee, shipping container, caravan
or boat, whether fixed or moveable, used on-site as a
residential unit or place of business or storage;
but does not include:
d. any scaffolding or falsework erected temporarily for
maintenance or construction purposes;
e. fences or walls of up to 2m in height, not used for advertising or
for any purpose other than as a fence or wall;
f. retaining walls which are both less than 6m2 in area and less
than 1.8m in height;
g. structures which are both less than 6m2 in area and less than
1.8m in height;
h. masts, poles, radio and telephone aerials less than 6m above
mean ground level;
i. any public artwork located in that part of the city contained
within Bealey, Fitzgerald, Moorhouse, Deans and Harper
Avenues;
and in the case of Banks Peninsula only, does not include:
j. any dam that retains not more than 3m depth, and not more
Banks Peninsula
District Plan
Ground level
Height
Public artwork
Residential unit
Related definitions
Accessory building
Approved building
Articulation
Building line restriction
Development
Erection of a building
Gross floor area
Gross leasable floor
area
Habitable building
Modulation
Net floor area
Public floor area (PFA)
Relocatable building
Residential building
platform
Temporary buildings
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than 20,000m3 volume of water, and any stopbank or culvert;
k. any tank or pool and any structural support thereof (excluding a
swimming pool as defined in Section 2 of the Fencing of
Swimming Pools Act 1987), including any tank or pool that is
part of any other building for which building consent is required:
i. Not exceeding 25,000 litres capacity and supported
directly by the ground; or
ii. Not exceeding 2,000 litres capacity and supported not
more than 2m above the supporting ground;
l. stockyards up to 1.8m in height.
Note: This definition of building is different from the definition of
building provided in Sections 8 and 9 of the Building Act 2004,and the
effect of this definition is different from the effect of Schedule 1 of the
Building Act 2004 in that some structures that do not require a building
consent under the Building Act 2004 may still be required to comply
with the provisions of the District Plan..
and activities
Building (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means as the context requires:
a. any structure or part of a structure whether permanent,
moveable or immoveable; and/or
b. any use, erection, reconstruction, placement, alteration or
demolition of any structure or part of any structure in, on,
under or over the land;
c. any vehicle, trailer, tent, marquee, shipping container, caravan
or boat, whether fixed or moveable, used on-site as a
residential unit or place of business or storage;
but does not include:
d. any scaffolding or falsework erected temporarily for
maintenance or construction purposes;
e. fences or walls of up to 2m in height, not used for advertising
or for any purpose other than as a fence or wall;
f. retaining walls which are both less than 6m2 in area and less
than 1.8m in height;
g. structures which are both less than 6m2 in area and less than
1.8m in height;
h. masts, poles, radio and telephone aerials less than 6m above
mean ground level;
Note: This definition of building is different from the definition of
building provided in Sections 8 and 9 of the Building Act
Height - (M.E.D.)
Residential unit -
(M.E.D.)
Related definitions
Accessory building -
(M.E.D.)
Development - (M.E.D.)
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2004,and the effect of this definition is different from the effect of
Schedule 1 of the Building Act 2004 in that some structures that
do not require a building consent under the Building Act 2004
may still be required to comply with the provisions of the District
Plan..
Building consent platform
Reliant definitions
for the purposes of Rule 5.8.2, the building consent platform
extends to a maximum of 2.5m from the exterior wall of an
enclosed structure or from the support structures of an open
structure.
Building
Building line restriction
Reliant definitions
means a restriction imposed on a site, by reference to a particular site
boundary, to ensure that when new buildings are erected, or existing
buildings are altered or substantially or wholly rebuilt, no part of any
such building shall stand within the area between the building line and
the relevant site boundary.
Building
Site
Site boundary
Related definitions
Erection of a building
Building supplier
Reliant definitions
means a business primarily engaged in selling goods for consumption
or use in the construction, modification, cladding, fixed decoration or
outfitting of buildings and without limiting the generality of this term,
includes:
a. glaziers;
b. locksmiths; and
c. suppliers of:
i. awnings and window coverings;
ii. bathroom, toilet and sauna installations;
iii. electrical materials and plumbing supplies;
iv. heating, cooling and ventilation installations;
v. kitchen and laundry installations, excluding standalone
appliances;
Building
Related definitions
Trade supplier
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vi. paint, varnish and wall coverings;
vii. permanent floor coverings;
viii. power tools and equipment;
ix. safes and security installations; and
x. timber and building materials; and
xi. any other goods allowed by any other definition under
‘trade supplier’.
C
Café
Reliant definitions
means a small food and beverage outlet that primarily provides
breakfast, lunch, light meals, and snack foods and drinks for sale. A
café does not include a restaurant.
Food and beverage outlet
Restaurant
Related definitions
Commercial activities
Food court
Retail activity
Retailing
Care facility
Reliant definitions
means a facility providing rest home care within the meaning of the
Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001, or a home for the
residential care of people with special needs, and/or any land or
buildings used for the care during the day of elderly persons or people
with special needs.
Building
Related definitions
Retirement village
Care Home
means a facility providing rest home care within the meaning of the
Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001, or a home for the
residential care of people with special needs, and/or any land or
buildings used for the care of elderly persons or people with special
needs.
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Carriageway
Reliant definitions
means that portion of the road that is formed and able to be used by
vehicles (including cyclists) and includes areas shared with
pedestrians, on-street parking areas, shoulders and auxiliary lanes,
but excludes footpaths. In urban areas the carriageway is generally
defined by kerbs.
Road
Related definitions
Roadway
Vehicle crossing
Central City
means that part of the city contained within Bealey, Fitzgerald,
Moorhouse, Deans and Harper Avenues.
Certified minimum finished floor level
means a minimum finished floor level certified and issued by the Council
upon receipt of a completed Project Information Memorandum (PIM) for a
building located in the Floor Level and Fill Management Area and shall
be calculated as the highest of the following:
I. flooding predicted to occur in a 1 in 200-year rainfall event concurrent with a 1 in 20-year tidal event, including 1m sea level rise plus 400mm freeboard, as predicted by the most up to date Christchurch City Council model and any relevant field information; or
II. flooding predicted to occur in a 1 in 200- year tidal event concurrent with a 1 in 20- year rainfall event, including 1m sea level rise plus 400mm freeboard, as predicted by the most up to date Christchurch City Council model and any relevant field information; or
III. 12.3m above Christchurch City Council Datum. A certified minimum finished floor level shall expire 6[12] months from
the date of issue.
Christchurch City Council Datum
Reliant definitions
means a drainage reference level 9.043m below Mean Sea Level
(1937 Lyttelton Datum).
Council
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Christchurch District
Reliant definitions
means the area under the jurisdiction of the Christchurch City Council,
as shown on Appendix 2.1.
Council
Related definitions
Banks Peninsula
Christchurch District
excluding Banks
Peninsula Ward
Greater Christchurch
area of Christchurch
District
Christchurch District excluding Banks Peninsula Ward
Reliant definitions
means that part of Christchurch District excluding Banks Peninsula
Ward, as shown on Appendix 2.1.
Banks Peninsula
Christchurch District
Related definitions
Greater Christchurch
area of Christchurch
District
CHRM
means community housing redevelopment mechanism.
Civic park
Related definitions
means a public open space, located in conjunction with the civic, retail
or other community functions at the core of the city, town or suburban
centre, that provides a focus for public activity and interaction.
Community facility
Place of assembly
Reserve
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Collector roads
Reliant definitions
means roads classified as a collector road in Figure 7.17, Appendix
7.12.
Note: Collector roads are generally the roads classified as Main or
Local Distributors in the road classification system in the Christchurch
Transport Strategic Plan.
Road
Commercial activities
Reliant definitions
means retail, office and other commercial service activities but does
not include industrial activities.
Commercial services
Industrial activity
Office
Retail activity
Related definitions
Urban activities
Commercial centre
Reliant definitions
means District, Neighbourhood, Local and Large Format Centres
zoned Commercial Core, Commercial Fringe, Commercial Local,
Commercial (Banks Peninsula) and/or Commercial Retail Park.
Banks Peninsula
District Centre
Large Format Centre
Local Centre
Neighbourhood Centre
Commercial services
Reliant definitions
means a business providing personal, property, financial, household,
private or business services to the general public and includes:
a. authorised betting shops;
b. copy and quick print services;
c. financial and banking facilities;
d. postal services;
e. counter insurance services;
f. dry-cleaning and laundrette services;
g. electrical goods repair services;
h. footwear and leather goods repair services;
i. hairdressing, beauty salons and barbers;
j. internet and computer services;
k. key cutting services;
Building
Commercial services
Entertainment activity
Gymnasium
Recreation activity
Retail activity
Related definitions
Commercial activities
Retail actity
Retailing
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l. real estate agents and valuers;
m. travel agency, airline and entertainment booking services;
n. gymnasiums;
o. optometrists; and
p. movie and game hire; and
q. animal welfare and/or grooming services.
Community corrections facility
means a building used for administrative and non-custodial
services. Services may include probation, rehabilitation and
reintegration services, assessments, reporting, workshops and
programmes, and offices may be used for the administration of and
a meeting point for community work groups.
Community facility
Reliant definitions
means any land and/or building or part thereof intended to be used
principally by members of the community for recreation,
entertainment, education, health care, safety and welfare, worship,
cultural or deliberation purposes. Community facilities include reserves,
recreation and entertainment facilities, community infrastructure such as
libraries and community halls, education activities, health care facilities,
care facilities, emergency service facilities, community corrections
facilities, [community welfare facilities], and spiritual facilities, but do
not include privately (as opposed to publicly) owned recreation and
entertainment facilities, or restaurants.
Building
Care facility
Community corrections
facility
Community infrastructure
Education activity
Emergency service
facilities
Entertainment facility
Health care facility
Recreation facility
Reserve
Restaurant
Spiritual facility
Related definitions
Mixed-use
Place of assembly
Community garden
means a privately or publicly held piece of land used collectively by
a group of people, whose members are from more than one
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household, for growing fruit, vegetables and flowers, which are not
sold to consumers (including restaurants).
Community housing unit
Reliant definitions
means a residential unit let or to be let by or on behalf of Christchurch
City Council, Housing New Zealand, a not-for-profit housing entity or a
registered community housing provider (under Part 10 of the Housing
Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Act 1992) as social housing.
Council
Residential unit
Social housing
Community infrastructure
[has the same meaning as in s 197 of the Local Government Act 2002] Related definitions
means:
a. land, or development assets on land, owned or controlled
by the territorial authority to provide public amenities; and
b. includes land that the territorial authority will acquire for
that purpose.
Development
contribution
Network infrastructure
Community welfare facility
means a building used for providing information, counselling and
material welfare of a personal nature. Includes personal and family
counselling, citizen’s advice bureaux, legal aid and the offices of
charitable organisations where the facility is operated by a non-profit
making organisation.
Contaminated land
[has the same meaning as in s 2 of the Resource Management Act
1991]
means land that has a hazardous substance in or on it that-
a. has significant adverse effects on the environment; or
b. is reasonably likely to have significant adverse effects on the
environment.
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Context and site analysis
Reliant definitions
means the analysis of the key existing elements and influences in the
vicinity of the proposed development (context analysis) and the key
existing elements and influences of the development site (site
analysis).
Development
Site
Related definitions
Detailed design
statement
Convenience activities
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings to provide readily accessible
retail and commercial services activities required on a day to day
basis. Convenience activities excludes:
a. booking services for airlines and recreation and entertainment
activities;
b. travel agency services;
c. real estate agents;
d. betting shops;
e. gymnasiums;
f. dry-cleaning and laundrette services (but not agencies for these
services);
g. electrical goods repair services;
h. premises licensed to serve alcohol;
i. counter insurance services;
j. financial and banking facilities; and
k. copy and quick printing services.
Building
Commercial services
Entertainment activity
Gymnasium
Recreation activity
Retail activity
Related definitions
Commercial activities
Retail activity
Retailing
Core public transport route
Reliant definitions
means a core route (along high-demand corridors, connecting key
activity centres and operating at high frequencies) as defined in
Appendix 1 of the Regional Public Transport Plan 2012 (or any change
to those routes during the lifetime of the District Plan). Core public
transport routes generally have at least a 15 minute frequency during
peak periods and daytime inter-peak.
District plan
Key activity centres
Related definitions
EDM core public
transport route
Corner site
Reliant definitions
means a site at the intersection of two roads with legal frontage to both
roads.
Frontage
Road
Site
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Related definitions
Front site
Rear site
Council
Reliant definitions
means the Christchurch City Council or any committee, subcommittee,
commissioner, officer or person to whom the Council's powers, duties
or discretions under the Act have lawfully been delegated.
Act
Council - (M.E.D.)
means the Christchurch City Council or any committee,
subcommittee, commissioner, officer or person to whom the
Council's powers, duties or discretions under the Resource
Management Act 1991 have lawfully been delegated.
Coverage
Coverage means that portion of a site which is covered by buildings,
including accessory buildings, and the area protected by the eaves
of buildings.
Critical infrastructure
Reliant definitions
means infrastructure necessary to provide services which, if
interrupted, would have a serious effect on the communities within the
Christchurch District and which would require immediate
reinstatement. This includes any structures that support, protect or
form part of critical infrastructure. Critical infrastructure includes:
a. Christchurch International Airport;
b. Lyttelton Port of Christchurch;
c. Gas storage and distribution facilities;
Christchurch District
Emergency service
facilities
Health care facility
Hospital
Road
Related definitions
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d. Electricity sub-stations, networks and distribution installations,
including the electricity distribution network;
e. Supply and treatment of water for public supply;
f. Storm water and sewage disposal systems;
g. Telecommunications installations and networks;
h. Strategic road and rail networks (as defined in the Canterbury
Regional Land Transport Strategy);
i. Petroleum storage and supply facilities;
j. Public health care facilities, including hospitals and medical
centres;
k. emergency service facilities; and
l. New Zealand Defence Force facilities.
Network infrastructure
Network utility
operator
Strategic infrastructure
Cycle lane
Reliant definitions
means part of a roadway to be used by cycles within which other traffic
is not necessarily excluded. A cycle lane is indicated by pavement
markings, texture or colour, or by raised pavement markers.
Roadway
Related definitions
Cycle route
Cycle route
Reliant definitions
means a recommended route for cyclists through an area consisting of
cycle ways, cycle lanes and/or streets, identified by signs.
Cycle lane
Cycle way
Related definitions
Major cycle route
Road
Strategic transport
networks
Cycle way
Reliant definitions
means a physically separate track for cyclists to which pedestrians
usually have access, but from which motor vehicles are excluded. It
may be adjoining a roadway or on a separate allotment.
Access
Adjoining
Allotment
Roadway
Related definitions
Cycle lane
Cycle route
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Major cycle route
D
Density uplift areas
Reliant definitions
means an area of a New Neighbourhood Zone of at least 7000m2 for
which a higher density of residential development is being sought
through a comprehensive subdivision and land use consent
application.
Development
Subdivision
Density uplift areas - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means an area of a New Neighbourhood Zone of at least 7000m2
for which a higher density of residential development is being
sought through a comprehensive subdivision and land use
consent application.
Development - (M.E.D.)
Subdivision - (M.E.D.)
Department store
Related definitions
means a retail store carrying a wide variety of merchandise, organised
into various departments that sell goods such as apparel, furniture,
appliances, electronics, household goods, toiletries, cosmetics,
jewellery, toys and sporting goods, and where no one merchandise
line dominates.
Anchor store
Retail activity
Retailing
Detailed design statement
Reliant definitions
means a statement of the rationale for the design approach taken to
the site and building design and any associated activity on the site.
Building
Site
Related definitions
Context and site
analysis
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Development
Reliant definitions
means any use of land involving the erection, alteration, addition,
repair, maintenance, or relocation of a building or buildings on a
site.
Building
Relocation of a building
Site
Development - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means any use of land involving the erection, alteration, addition,
repair, maintenance, or relocation of a building or buildings on a
site.
Building - (M.E.D.)
Site - (M.E.D.)
Development contribution
[has the same meaning as in s 197 of the Local Government Act 2002] Related definitions
means a contribution:—
a. provided for in a development contribution policy of a territorial
authority; and
b. calculated in accordance with the methodology; and
c. comprising—
i. money; or
ii. land, including a reserve or esplanade reserve (other than in
relation to a subdivision consent), but excluding Māori land
within the meaning of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993,
unless that Act provides otherwise; or
iii. both.
Community
infrastructure
Esplanade reserve
Financial contribution
Network infrastructure
Reserve
Subdivision
Development plan
Reliant definitions
means a plan for a specified area, required in conjunction with a
resource and/or subdivision consent for a commercial zone, the New
Neighbourhood Zone or the Living G Zone.
Development Subdivision
Related definitions
Neighbourhood plan
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Development plan - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means a plan for a specified area, required in conjunction with a
resource and/or subdivision consent for a commercial zone, the
New Neighbourhood Zone or the Living G Zone.
Development - (M.E.D.)
Subdivision - (M.E.D.)
Related definitions
Neighbourhood plan -
(M.E.D.)
District Centre
Related definitions
means the Commercial Core Zone and, where applicable, the
Commercial Fringe Zone and Commercial Retail Park Zone at
Belfast (emerging), Eastgate/Linwood, Hornby, North Halswell
(emerging), Papanui/Northlands, Riccarton and Shirley/Palms.
Commercial centre
Key activity centres
Large format centre
Local centre
Neighbourhood centre
District Plan
Reliant definitions
means the publicly notified or operative replacement District Plan for
Christchurch District.
Christchurch District
Dripline
for the purpose of Rule 5.8.2, means the dripline of a tree, being a circular
area where the radius is equivalent to either the outer extent of the branch
spread or half the height of the tree, whichever is the greater. This is
illustrated in the diagram below.
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Drive-through services
Reliant definitions
means a retail activity or commercial service where the goods/services
are offered and/or are sold to a customer while remaining in their
vehicle. It includes facilities that may form part of another facility,
including Food and Beverage Outlets, but excludes service stations
and associated activities.
Commercial services
Retail activity
Service station
Related definitions
Commercial activities
Retailing
Duplex
Reliant definitions
means a single residential building containing two residential units
each with its own entrance and habitable space on the ground floor.
Building
Habitable space
Residential unit
Related definitions
Apartment
Standalone house
Terrace
Duplex - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means a single residential building containing two residential
units each with its own entrance and habitable space on the
ground floor.
Building - (M.E.D.)
Residential unit -
(M.E.D.)
Related definitions
Apartment - (M.E.D.)
Standalone house -
(M.E.D.)
Terrace - (M.E.D.)
E
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Early Childhood Education Facilities
has the same meaning as “early childhood education and care
centre" in section 310 of the Education Act 1989 and for clarity
includes a creche, Kōhanga Reo, day care centre, kindergarten,
playgroup or play centre and the land on which these are located.
Earthworks
Reliant definitions
means any excavation, depositing or other disturbance of earth, rock
or soil on a site, including that which raises ground level or
changes the profile of the landform, and that which involves the
inclusion or insertion of other materials into the ground for the
purposes of repairing a site damaged by earthquakes or
strengthening a site in preparation for the construction of a
building, or the installation of services or utilities. Earthworks
include, but are not limited to:
a. that which raises ground level or changes the profile of the
landform; or
b. that which involves the inclusion or insertion of other
materials into the ground for the purposes of repairing a site
damaged by earthquakes or strengthening a site in preparation
for the construction of a building; or
c. in relation to the installation of services or utilities; or
d. the construction of tracks, firebreaks and landings; or
e. root raking and blading.
, the construction of roads, tracks, firebreaks and landings, and
ground shaping (recontouring), root raking and blading.
Building
Ground level
Road
Site
Utility
Related definitions
Filling
EDM
Related definitions
means enhanced development mechanism. EDM core public
transport route
EDM qualifying
supermarket
EDM walking distance
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EDM core public transport route
Reliant definitions
means a core route (along high-demand corridors connecting key
activity centres and operating at high frequencies) as defined in
Appendix 1 of the Regional Public Transport Plan 2012 (or any
change to those routes during the lifetime of EDM).
EDM
Key activity centres
Related definitions
EDM qualifying supermarket
Reliant definitions
means a self-service retail shop, of not less than 1000m2 gross floor
area, primarily selling a wide range of fresh produce, meat and other
foodstuffs and a wide range of packaged food and non-food grocery
items.
EDM
Gross floor area
Related definitions
Anchor store
Supermarket
EDM walking distance
Reliant definitions
means a distance as measured along any continuous accessible and
walkable route over which the general public has a legal right of
walking access, including footpaths and open space.
EDM
Education activity
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings for the provision of regular
instruction or training, or out of school care,by suitably qualified
instructors, and includesing ancillary administrative,
boarding/residential accommodation, spiritual, recreation, health
and cultural and shared facilities (all of which may be shared), and
also includes pre-schools. Bboarding/residential accommodation
shall be ancillary to education activity on that site. It also includes
the use of trade and industry training facilities and pre-school
facilities. For the purpose of calculating the parking requirement,
education activity shall also be deemed to include any auditorium
used, at least in part, for the education activity. Educational
facility has the same meaning. Education activity includes trade
and industry training facilities.
Building
Pre-school
Recreation activity
Site
Spiritual facility
Trade and industry
training facility
Related definitions
Community facility
Place of assembly
Sensitive activities
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Elderly person's housing unit
Reliant definitions
means one of a group of residential units developed or used for the
accommodation of elderly persons, where the group is either held
under one title or unit titles under the Unit Titles Act 2010 with a body
corporate, and which is encumbered by a bond or other appropriate
legal instrument which ensures that the use of the unit is confined to
elderly persons.
Residential Unit
Related definitions
Retirement village
Sensitive activities
Sheltered housing
Electrical switch
Reliant definitions
means an electrical switch to an electric light, or other installed
electrical device, where the switch is physically separate from the
device itself (e.g. security systems, intercommunication systems and
air conditioning controls).
Installed
Electricity transmission network
Related definitions
means the national grid as defined in the National Policy
Statement on Electricity Transmission 2008.
Critical infrastructure
Strategic infrastructure
Utility
Emergency service facilities
Related definitions
means the facilities of authorities that are responsible for the safety
and welfare of people and property in the community, and includes fire
stations, ambulance stations, police stations and emergency
coordination facilities.
Community facility
Entertainment activity
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings principally for entertainment,
recreation or leisure other than recreation activity and includes public
performances and exhibitions, whether a charge is made for admission
or not.
Building
Recreation activity
Related definitions
Recreation activity
Temporary buildings
and activities
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Entertainment facility
Reliant definitions
means land and/or buildings used for entertainment activities. Building
Entertainment activity
Related definitions
Place of assembly
Recreation facility
Erection of a building
Reliant definitions
in relation to subdivision means the completion of all framing, fire
walls, fire ceilings and fire floors and the affixing of all roof materials.
Building
Subdivision
Esplanade reserve
Related definitions
[has the same meaning as in s 2 of the Resource Management Act
1991]
means a reserve within the meaning of the Reserves Act 1977—
a. Which is either—
i. a local purpose reserve within the meaning of section 23 of
that Act, if vested in the territorial authority under section
239; or
ii. a reserve vested in the Crown or a regional council under
section 237D; and
b. which is vested in the territorial authority, regional council, or the
Crown for a purpose or purposes set out in section 229.
Reserve
External sound insulation level Dtr, 2m, nTw+Ctr
Reliant definitions
means the Weighted Standardised Level Difference of the external
building envelope (including windows, walls, roof/ceilings and floors
where appropriate) and is a measure of the reduction in sound level
from outside to inside a building, assessed in accordance with ISO
140-5:1998 Acoustics - Measurement of sound insulation in buildings
and of building elements - Part 5 and ISO 717-1:2013 Acoustics –
Rating of sound insulation in buildings and of building elements – Part
1. Also known as the external sound insulation level.
Building
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F
Family flat
means self contained living accommodation, whether contained within a
residential unit or located separately to a residential unit on the same
site, which are occupied by family member(s) who are dependent on
someway on the household living in that residential unit, and which is
encumbered by an appropriate legal instrument which ensures that the
use of the family flat is limited to dependent family members of the
household living in the residential unit.
Family store
means, in relation to the Salvation Army sit in Addington, the sale of
second hand items, that have been donated for sale, that would normally
be associated with a Charity shop.
Farming and agricultural supplier
Related definitions
means a business primarily engaged in selling goods for use in
the business operations of primary producers or in animal
husbandry and includes:
a. equestrian and veterinary suppliers;
b. farming and horticultural equipment suppliers;
c. seed and grain merchants; and
d. stock and station outlets.
Trade supplier
Fast Food outlet
means a food and beverage outlet where it is common-practice to
sell ready-to-eat meals that can be taken away for off-site
consumption. The outlet may also include some dine-in facilities for
on-site consumption of meals.
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Filling
Reliant definitions
means the placing or disturbance of material upon the surface of the
land above natural ground level, or upon land which has been
excavated below natural ground level or the placing or disturbance of
material into land below natural ground level where excavation has not
taken place.
Ground level
Related definitions
Earthworks
Financial contribution
[has the same meaning as in s 108(9) of the Resource Management
Act 1991]
Reliant definitions
means a contribution of—
a. money; or
b. land, including an esplanade reserve or esplanade strip (other
than in relation to a subdivision consent), but excluding Maori
land within the meaning of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
unless that Act provides otherwise; or
c. a combination of money and land.
Esplanade reserve
Subdivision
Related definitions
Development
contribution
Finer grain retailing
Reliant definitions
means retail shops with a ground floor area less than 250m2 that
will be primarily occupied by owner/occupier tenancies.
Ground floor area
Related definitions
Retail activity
Floor level and fill management area
Reliant definitions
means an area identified on the planning maps which is at risk of
flooding in a major flood event, where specific minimum floor level and
earthwork rules apply.
Major flood event
Related definitions
Earthworks
High flood hazard
Food and beverage outlet
Reliant definitions
means the use of land or buildings primarily for the sale of food and/or
beverages prepared for immediate consumption on or off the site to
the general public. It includes restaurants, taverns, cafés and
Building
Café
Restaurant
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takeaway bars, and excludes supermarkets, except that within
industrial zones it also excludes restaurants and taverns.
Site
Supermarket
Tavern
Related definitions
Food court
Guest accommodation
Hotel
Food court
Reliant definitions
means four or more restaurant businesses and/or businesses
selling refreshments and meal components, sharing a common
area or areas for the serving and seating of customers. For the
purposes of assessing parking, only the common seating area is
used for floor area assessment.
Restaurant
Related definitions
Café
Food and beverage
outlet
Restaurant
Freeboard
Related definitions
means a safety allowance added to predicted flood water levels for
design purposes to account for the provision for flood modelling
error margins, flood level design estimate imprecision, inaccuracies
in surveying land levels, construction tolerances, obstructions in
drainage networks and waterways and natural phenomena (e.g. waves,
debris, aggradations, channel transition and bend wind effects). not
explicitly included in the calculations for flood levels.
Ground level
Freight hub
Reliant definitions
means an area where the transferring of freight between vehicles or
transport modes is the primary activity of the site. Freight hubs are
generally ports, airports, inland ports and rail depot facilities (such as
the Middleton Railyard).
Site
Related definitions
Strategic infrastructure
Frontage
Reliant definitions
(see Boundary). Boundary
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Related definitions
Access lot
Front site
Interface
Key pedestrian
frontage
Front site
Reliant definitions
means a site having one or more frontages to a road or private road. Frontage
Road
Site
Related definitions
Corner site
Rear site
FTE
means full time equivalent.
Full time equivalent student
means the equivalent number of students based on the number of
papers taken to complete a full time course in the normal time,
divided by the actual number of students.
Future development allotment
Reliant definitions
means an allotment encumbered to achieve the density required by
the zone.
Allotment
Future development allotment - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means an allotment encumbered to achieve the density required
by the zone.
Allotment (M.E.D.)
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G
Garage
Reliant definitions
means an accessory building, or part of a building, designed or used
for housing motor vehicles and other miscellaneous items and can
include a carport, workshop, laundry and/or sleep-out ancillary to any
associated residential unit. Garages may be located on a site other
than the site of the residential unit.
Accessory building
Building
Residential unit
Site
Sleep-out
Garage - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means an accessory building, or part of a building, designed or
used for housing motor vehicles and other miscellaneous items
and can include a carport, workshop, laundry and/or sleep-out
ancillary to any associated residential unit. Garages may be
located on a site other than the site of the residential unit.
Accessory building -
(M.E.D.)
Building - (M.E.D.)
Residential unit -
(M.E.D.)
Site - (M.E.D.)
Garden allotment
Reliant definitions
means a site used by an individual or members of a single
household for growing fruit, vegetables and flowers, which are not
sold to consumers (including restaurants).
Restaurant
Site
Garden and patio supplier
Reliant definitions
means a business primarily engaged in selling goods for
permanent exterior installation or planting and includes:
a. garden centres;
b. landscape suppliers; and
c. suppliers of:
i. bark and compost;
ii. clothes hoists and lines;
iii. conservatories, sheds and other outbuildings;
iv. fencing, gates and trellises;
Building
Related definitions
Trade supplier
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v. firewood;
vi. garden machinery;
vii. outdoor recreational fixtures and installations;
viii. monumental masonry;
ix. patio furniture and appliances;
x. paving and paving aggregates;
xi. statuary and ornamental garden features; and
xii. swimming and spa pools.
GFA
Reliant definitions
(See Gross floor area) Gross floor area
GLFA
Reliant definitions
(See Gross leasable floor area) Gross leasable floor
area
Greater Christchurch area of Christchurch District
Reliant definitions
means that part of Christchurch District within the Greater
Christchurch area indicated on Map A in the Canterbury Regional
Policy Statement, Chapter 6.
Christchurch District
Related definitions
Banks Peninsula
Christchurch District
excluding Banks
Peninsula Ward
Greenfield
Reliant definitions
means land not previously or currently used for urban activities and
which is generally rural land.
Urban activities
Gross floor area (GFA)
Reliant definitions
means the sum of the total area of all floors of all buildings measured
from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the centre line of
walls separating two buildings. For the purposes of calculating
loading, car and cycle parking spaces only, gross floor area shall
Building
Loading area
Related definitions
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exclude off-street parking and/or loading areas contained within the
building.
Gross leasable floor
area
Net floor area
Public floor area
Gross floor area of the habitable space
Reliant definitions
means the sum of the total area of all floors of all spaces of a
residential unit excluding any bathroom, laundry, toilet, pantry, walk
in wardrobe, corridor, hallway, lobby, clothes drying room or garage
(except any portion of a garage that includes a sleep-out).
Garage
Residential unit
Sleep-out
Gross leasable floor area (GLFA)
Reliant definitions
means the sum of the total area of all floors (within the external walls
for buildings or within the boundary for outdoor areas) designed or
used for tenant occupancy but excluding:
a. common lift wells and stairwells (including landing areas);
b. common corridors and halls (other than food court areas);
c. common toilets and bathrooms;
d. any parking and/or loading areas;
e. any parking and/or loading areas;
and for the purposes of calculating loading, car and cycle parking
requirements, in addition to the exclusions above, the following shall
also be excluded:
f. common seating areas (including food court seating areas); and
g. lobby areas in cinemas.
Boundary
Building
Food court
Loading area
Parking area
Related definitions
Gross floor area
Net floor area
Public floor area
Ground floor area
Reliant definitions
means the total area of the building measured from the exterior faces
of the exterior walls at ground level.
Building
Ground level
Related definitions
Gross floor area
Gross leaseable floor
area
Net floor area
Public floor area
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Ground level
Reliant definitions
means the natural ground level or, where the land has been
subdivided, the level of the ground existing when works associated
with any prior subdivision of the land were completed, but before filling
or excavation for new buildings on the land has commenced.
Building
Filling
Subdivision
Related definitions
Earthworks
Height
Grout
Related definitions
for the purposes of Rule 5.8.2, means a material which consists of
water and at least 20% cement, and which may also contain
aggregate, inert additives, or bentonite.
Presssurised injection
Guest accommodation
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings for transient residential
accommodation offered at a tariff, which may involve the sale of
alcohol and/or food to in-house guests, and the sale of food, with or
without alcohol, to the public. Guest accommodation includes motels,
motor and tourist lodges, backpacker’s hostels, hotels, resorts and
camping grounds.
Building
Related definitions
Habitable building
Habitable space
Hotel
Residential activity
Residential unit
Guest accommodation - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings for transient residential
accommodation offered at a tariff, which may involve the sale of
alcohol and/or food to in-house guests, and the sale of food, with
or without alcohol, to the public. Guest accommodation includes
motels, motor and tourist lodges, hostels and camping grounds.
Building - (M.E.D.)
Related definitions
Residential activity -
(M.E.D.)
Residential unit -
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(M.E.D.)
Gymnasium
Reliant definitions
means a building or room(s) used for organised or instructed indoor
exercise, typically including aerobics or weight/circuit training, and
ancillary facilities such as health care services, spa/sauna, a small
apparel sales area and cafeteria for patrons. Specialised facilities such
as squash courts are considered ancillary to the gymnasium for the
purposes of calculating parking requirements.
Building
Related definitions
Commercial services
H
Habitable building
Reliant definitions
means any building occupied by persons for residential activity or
guest accommodation and hotels.
Building
Guest accommodation
Hotel
Residential activity
Habitable space
Reliant definitions
means all the spaces of a residential unit or guest accommodation unit
excludingexcept any bathroom, laundry, toilet, pantry, walk in wardrobe,
corridor, hallway, lobby or clothes drying room (but including any portion
of a garage used as a sleep out).
Guest accommodation
Residential unit
Related definitions
Living area
Mechanical ventilation
Slope Instability Hazard mitigation works
for the purposes of Rule 5.10, means engineering works to prevent
and control land instability, rockfalls, boulder roll and the extent of
debris travel and includes the building of rockfall protection structures,
the removal and/or relocation of source rock hazards, the mechanical
fixing of rocks in-situ, the re-contouring of slopes and/or land and any
necessary on-site geotechnical investigations required as part of the
works. Retaining walls not required for a hazard mitigation purpose are
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excluded from this definition.
Health care facility
Reliant definitions
means land and/or buildings used for the provision of physical and
mental health, or health-related welfare services for people by
registered health practitioners (approved under the Health
Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003) services for people,
including:
a. medical practitioners; b. dentists and dental services; c. opticians; d. physiotherapists; e. medical social workers and counsellors; f. midwives; g. paramedical practitioners; h. diagnostic laboratories; i. day care facilities for the elderly and disabled; j. accessory offices and retail activity to the above
but excluding facilities used for:
k. the promotion of physical fitness, such as gymnasiums and/or pools (except where ancillary to a hospital service or treatment programme);
l. beauty clinics; and m. health care in Retirement Villages.
a. hospitals and ancillary gymnasiums and/or pools which are
part of a hospital service and treatment programme;
b. care facilities for the elderly and/or the disabled which
include medical facilities and may incorporate on-site
accommodation;
c. base facilities for the provision of off-site health services,
including medical centres, clinics and consulting rooms, in
which consultations between health care professionals and
patients occur;
d. accessory buildings and activities, such as kitchen and
laundry facilities, located on the same site;
but excludes facilities used for:
e. the promotion of physical fitness or beauty such as
gymnasiums and/or pools (except where ancillary to a
hospital service or treatment programme);
f. beauty clinics; and
g. weight control clinics.
Accessory building
Building
Care facility
Gymnasium
Hospital
Site
Related definitions
Retirement village
Veterinary care facility
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Heavy vehicle
means a motor vehicle (other than a motor car that is not used, kept or
available for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward), the gross
laden weight of which exceeds 3,500kg, but does not include a traction
engine or a vehicle designed solely or principally for the use of fire
brigades in attendance at fires (refer Heavy Motor Vehicle Regulations
1974).
Height
Reliant definitions
in relation to a building means the vertical distance between ground
level at any point and the highest part of the building immediately
above that point, except that for the purpose of calculating height in all
zones, account shall be taken of parapets, but not of:
a. radio and television aerials attached to a residential unit,
provided that the maximum height normally permitted by the
rules for the zone is not exceeded by more than 2.5 metres; and
b. finials, provided that the maximum height normally permitted by
the rules for the zone is not exceeded by more than 1.5 metres.
c. lift shafts, plant rooms, water tanks, air conditioning units,
ventilation ducts, chimneys and antennae and similar
architectural features on buildings in all Open Space Zones;
Commercial and Industrial Zones including the Special Purpose
(Defence Wigram), (Tertiary Education), (Hospital) and
(Airport) Zones; area, the Central City Business and Mixed
Use Zones, the Cultural 4 Zone, the Living 5 Zone in the
Central City, Central City Living Zone and the Special
Purpose (Airport) Zone, provided they do not exceed an
additional 6 metres or 20% of the height of a building
(whichever is lesser) and not more than 25% of the plan
area of a building.
d. chimneys (not exceeding 1.1 metres in any direction); except
allowed for in the Central City Living and L5 Zones under
subclause (3) above.
e. any utility or part of a utility with a horizontal dimension of less
than 55 millimetres;
f. exceed the allowed zone height by no more than 3m or 20%
of the building height (whichever is greater);
g. any pole or support structure for flood or training lights
accessory to a minor or major sports facility, provided that
Building
Ground level
Utility
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their height does not exceed 40m; and
h. Church spires or bell towers.
Height - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
in relation to a building means the vertical distance between
ground level at any point and the highest part of the building
immediately above that point, except that for the purpose of
calculating height in all zones, account shall be taken of
parapets, but not of:
a. radio and television aerials attached to a residential unit,
provided that the maximum height normally permitted by the
rules for the zone is not exceeded by more than 2.5 metres;
and
b. finials, provided that the maximum height normally
permitted by the rules for the zone is not exceeded by more
than 1.5 metres.
c. chimneys (not exceeding 1.1 metres in any direction) except
allowed for in the Central City Living and L5 Zones under
subclause (3) above.
d. any utility or part of a utility with a horizontal dimension of
less than 55 millimetres.
Building - (M.E.D.)
High flood hazard
Reliant definitions
means subject to inundation events where the water depth (metres) x
velocity (metres per second) is greater than or equal to 1, or where
depths are greater than 1m, in a 0.2% AEP (1 in 500 year) flood event
(as identified in the Canterbury Regional Policy Statement, Chapter
11).
Annual exceedance
probability
Related definitions
Floor level and fill
management area
Major flood event
High technology industrial activity
means:
a. communications technology development;
b. computer and information technology development; and
c. associated manufacturing, electronic data storage and
processing, and research and development.
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Home occupation
Reliant definitions
means any occupation, including profession, undertaken within a
residential unit by a person who resides permanently in that residential
unit.
Residential unit
Related definitions
Commercial activities
Commercial services
Office
Pre-school
Retail activity
Retailing
Hospital
Related definitions
means any facility providing hospital care within the meaning of the
Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001.
Critical infrastructure
Health care facility
Sensitive activities
Hotel
Reliant definitions
means any building and associated land where guest accommodation
is provided and which is the subject of an alcohol licence, and may
include restaurants, bars, bottle stores, conference and other ancillary
facilities as part of an integrated complex.
Alcohol licence
Building
Guest accommodation
Restaurant
Related definitions
Habitable building
Tavern
Human scale
Reliant definitions
means the use and assembly of design elements within a development
in a way which relates well in size to a person.
Development
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I
Impervious surface
Reliant definitions
means a continuous surface of concrete, bitumen or paving with
slabs, bricks, ‘gobi’ or similar blocks, or hardfill that effectively puts a
physical barrier on the surface of any part of a site, but excludes
shade houses, glass or tunnel houses that do not have solid floors.
Site
Indigenous vegetation
means all animals that occur naturally in New Zealand and have
evolved or arrived without any assistance from humans. Indigenous
species including migratory species visiting New Zealand on a
regular or irregular basis.
Indigenous vegetation
Related definitions
means plant communities dominated by species that are indigenous to
New Zealand and which may include a minor element of exotic
vegetation.
Significant indigenous
vegetation
Vegetation clearance
Indigenous vegetation clearance
Reliant definitions
means the felling or clearing of indigenous vegetation, including by
cutting, crushing, cultivation, chemical application or burning.
Indigenous vegetation
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Industrial activity
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings for manufacturing, fabricating,
processing, repairing, assembly, packaging, wholesaling or storage of
products. It excludes high technology industrial activity, mining
exploration, mineral extraction activity, quarrying activity and
noxious or offensiveHeavy activity.
Building
High technology
industrial activity
Mineral extraction activity
Noxious or offensive
activity
Related definitions
Commercial activities
Motor servicing facility
Service industry
Trade supplier
Urban activities
Infrastructure
Reliant definitions
for the purposes of Rule 5.10.1, means water mains, sewerage mains,
pump stations and reservoirs, electricity networks and sub-stations,
telecommunications networks and strategic and other roads, but does
not include services from the street to residential units.
Residential unit
Road
Installed
Reliant definitions
means permanently added to the physical structure of the building or
car park.
Building
Related definitions
Electrical switch
Window control
Insulation R value
means the standard measure of thermal resistance used in the
building and construction industry (as at the date of public notification
of this Plan).
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Integrated health care facility
A health care facility where multiple health care services are located
within one building, it will contain general practice and can include
but not be limited to: physiotherapy, midwifery, blood service, and
medical specialists.
Interface
Reliant definitions
means the relationship between a change in activities or change in
environment. For example, street interface is the relationship between
public and private space on a site’s frontage.
Frontage
Site
Intersection
Reliant definitions
in relation to two or more intersecting or meeting roadways or
railway lines, means that area contained with the prolongation or
connection of the lateral boundary lines of each roadway or railway.
Roadway
J
K
Kaitiaktanga
means to support the protection of important environmental and
cultural features.
Key activity centres
Reliant definitions
means the following key existing and proposed commercial centres
identified as focal points for employment, community activities and the
transport network, and which are suitable for more intensive mixed-
use development, as identified in the Canterbury Regional Policy
Statement, Chapter 6, on Map A. The Key Activity Centre in each
Commercial centre
Mixed-use
Related definitions
District centre
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location includes land zoned Commercial Core and, where applicable,
Commercial Fringe and Commercial Retail Park.
a. Papanui;
b. Shirley;
c. Linwood;
d. New Brighton;
e. Belfast/Northwood;
f. Riccarton;
g. North Halswell;
h. Spreydon; and
i. Hornby.
Neighbourhood centre
Key activity centres - (M.E.D.)
means the following key existing and proposed commercial
centres adjacent to the Meadowlands Exemplar identified as a
focal points for employment, community activities and the
transport network, and which are suitable for more intensive
mixed-use development, as identified in the Canterbury Regional
Policy Statement, Chapter 6, on Map A.
Key pedestrian frontage
Reliant definitions
means street frontages within commercial zones where there is an
intensity of development and movement of people, and the need for a
strong active and visual interface between the public environment and
private space.
Development
Frontage
Interface
Related definitions
Main street
Road
Key structuring elements
Reliant definitions
means the existing or proposed above ground infrastructure, such as
stormwater ponds, roads and reserves, that contribute to the layout of
new urban areas.
Reserve
Road
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Kotahitanga
means to encourage community unity and identity.
L
Landscaped area
(see Landscaping).
Landscaping
except in the Commercial, Retail Park and Industrial Zones,
means the provision of tree and/or shrub plantings and may include
any ancillary lawn, water, rocks, paved areas or amenity features. In
the Commercial, Retail Park and Industrial Zones, landscaping means
the provision of predominantly trees and/or shrub plantings and may
include some ancillary areas of lawn or other amenity features.
Landscaped area and landscaping strip shall have the same
meaning.
Landscaping strip
(see Landscaping).
Lane way
Reliant definitions
means a publicly available pedestrian access way, service lane or
right-of-way which is secondary to main routes or streets and may
include vehicle access between properties and buildings. Ownership
may be public, private, or a combination of both via public easements.
Access way
Building
Right-of-way
Service lane
Vehicle access
Related definitions
Road
Large format centre
Reliant definitions
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means those commercial centres at Cranford Street, Moorhouse
Avenue, Shirley Homebase and Tower Junction Zoned Commercial
Retail Park on the planning maps that consist primarily of retail
activities with a gross leasable floor area of 450m2 per tenancy,
trade suppliers and yard-based suppliers.
Commercial centre
Gross leasable floor area
Retail activity
Trade supplier
Yard-based supplier
Related definitions
District Centre
Key activity centres
Local centre
Neighbourhood centre
Large format retail / large format retail activity
means any individual retail tenancy with a specified minimum floor
area, where the tenancy is created by freehold, leasehold, licence or
any other arrangement to occupy.
Legally defined parcel of land
Reliant definitions
means a continuous area of land whose boundaries are shown on
a survey plan.
Boundary
Related definitions
Allotment
Lot
Site
Legibility
means the degree to which a place can be easily understood and
enables people to orientate themselves and find their way with strong
visual and physical connections.
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Level crossing
[has the same meaning as in s 4 of the Railways Act 2005]
Related definitions
a. means any place where –
i. a railway line crosses a road on the same level; or
ii. the public is permitted to cross a railway line on the same
level; and
b. includes a bridge used for both rail vehicles and road traffic on
the same level; but
c. does not include a railway line on a road that is intended solely
for the use of light rail vehicles.
Limit line
Road
Limit line
Reliant definitions
means a line marked on the surface of the roadway to indicate the
place where traffic is required to stop for the purpose of complying with
a stop sign, give-way sign, pedestrian crossing, railway crossing,
school crossing point or traffic signal.
Roadway
Related definitions
Level crossing
Living area
Reliant definitions
means habitable space excluding bedrooms. Habitable space
Living space
Reliant definitions
means all the lounge, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, toilet
and hallway spaces within a residential unit.
Residential unit
Related definitions
Primary living level
Residential
thoroughfare
Loading
Related definitions
means the loading or unloading or fuelling of a vehicle, or the
adjustment or covering or tying of its load or any part or parts of its
load. Load in relation to a vehicle has a corresponding meaning.
Loading area
Loading space
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Loading area
Reliant definitions
means that part of a site within which all vehicle loading facilities are
accommodated and includes all loading spaces and manoeuvring
areas.
Loading
Loading space
Manoeuvre area
Site
Related definitions
Gross floor area
Gross leasable floor
area
Net floor area
Public floor area
Loading space
Reliant definitions
whether covered or not, means that portion of a site clear of any road
or service lane upon which a vehicle can stand while being loaded or
unloaded. Such loading space shall have vehicular access to a road or
service lane.
Access
Loading
Road
Service lane
Site
Related definitions
Loading area
Manoeuvre area
Local centre
Related definitions
means those areas zoned Commercial Local. Commercial centre
District centre
Key activity centres
Large format centre
Neighbourhood centre
Local roads
Reliant definitions
means any road not classified as either an arterial or collector road in
Figure 7.17, Appendix 7.12.
Note: Local roads are generally the roads classified as Typical or Slow
Streets in the road classification system in the Christchurch Transport
Strategic Plan.
Arterial roads
Collector roads
Road
Related definitions
Roadway
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Lot
Reliant definitions
(see Allotment) Allotment
Low impact urban design
using recognised best practice techniques in urban development to
promote the efficient use of natural and physical resources and to
reduce environmental impacts, including but not limited to;
freshwater, energy use, conservation values.
M
Main street
Related definitions
means the principal open air retail street of a city, town or suburban
centre.
Road
Major arterial roads
Reliant definitions
means roads classified as a major arterial road in Figure 7.17,
Appendix 7.12.
Note: Major arterial roads are generally the roads classified as State
Highways and District Arterials in the road classification system in the
Christchurch Transport Strategic Plan.
Arterial roads
Road
Related definitions
Critical infrastructure
Strategic infrastructure
Strategic road network
Major cycle route
Reliant definitions
means a cycle route that predominantly consists of cycle ways and is
at least two kilometres in continuous length.
Note: The Christchurch Transport Strategic Plan identifies Major Cycle
Routes proposed by the Council.
Council
Cycle route
Cycle way
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Major flood event
Reliant definitions
means either a 1 in 200 year (0.5% AEP) rainfall event concurrent with
a 1 in 20 year (5% AEP) tidal event, or a 1 in 200 year tidal event
concurrent with a 1 in 20 year rainfall event.
Annual exceedance
probability
Related definitions
Floor level and fill
management area
High flood hazard
Manaakitanga
means to embrace and welcome all peoples, especially visitors,
and to provide a safe and secure community environment.
Manoeuvre area
Reliant definitions
means that part of a site used by vehicles to move from the vehicle
crossing to any parking space, garage or loading space and includes
all driveways and aisles, and may be part of an access. Parking areas
and loading areas may be served in whole or in part by a common
manoeuvre area. Manoeuvring area has the same meaning.
Access
Garage
Loading area
Loading space
Parking area
Site
Vehicle crossing
Market garden
in relation to residential zones, means a small-scale business
growing a diverse range of fruit, vegetables and flowers as cash
crops, which are sold directly to consumers (including restaurants).
Master plan
Reliant definitions
means a plan prepared under the Local Government Act 2002 as part
of the Council's earthquakes-related Suburban Centres Programme,
which identifies the community's vision for the rebuild and recovery of
a specified suburban centre and provides the framework to guide
decisions by the Council, organisations and individuals for the centre’s
Council
Related definitions
Development plan
Outline development
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rebuild and recovery. plan
Mātauranga
means to encourage community understanding and pride
through shared knowledge.
Mauritanga
means to identify and promote the maintenance or restoration of
mauri, being the life-force or essence of a natural environment.
Mechanical ventilation
Reliant definitions
means a mechanical system or systems designed, installed and
operating so that a habitable space (with windows and doors closed) is
ventilated with fresh air in accordance with the Building Code under
the Building Act 2004.
Habitable space
Mineral extraction activity
Reliant definitions
means the use of land, buildings or plant for the purpose of the
quarrying and the extraction of natural sands and gravels, the
processing of those materials by screening, crushing, washing or
mixing with additive materials, the storage of those materials
(including additive materials), and site rehabilitation works.
Additive materials (which may include clay, lime, cement and
other mineral products not quarried on site) may only be used in
the production of roading materials, and do not include bark, soil
and sawdust.
Building
Site
Related definitions
Industrial activity
Minor arterial roads
Reliant definitions
means roads classified as a minor arterial road in Figure 7.17,
Appendix 7.12.
Note: Minor arterial roads are generally the roads classified as Minor
Arterials in the road classification system in the Christchurch Transport
Strategic Plan.
Arterial roads
Road
Related definitions
Major arterial roads
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Minor upgrade
for the purposes of Rule 5.10.1.1 and 5.10.1.2, minor upgrading
means, increasing the carrying capacity, efficiency and security
of electricity and associated telecommunications facilities, and
utilising the existing support structures or structures of similar
scale and character, and includes the:
a. addition of circuits and / or conductors;
b. reconductoring of the line with higher capacity
conductors;
c. resagging of conductors;
d. addition of longer or more efficient insulators;
e. addition of earthwires (which may contain
telecommunication lines, earthpeaks and lightning rods);
and
f. replacement or alteration of existing telecommunication
antennas.
Minor upgrading shall not include an increase in voltage of the
line.
Mixed modal link
Reliant definitions
means streets, lane ways, paths or access ways that provide for
shared movement, which may include facilities for a combination of
walking, cycling, motor vehicles and public transport.
Access way
Lane way
Related definitions
Road
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Mixed-use
Reliant definitions
means development which combines, in a building or buildings or
development area, a range of activities including, medium density
residential activity, with commercial activities and/or community
facilities located at ground level and fronting the street or public
access ways.
Access way
Building
Commercial activities
Community facility
Development
Ground level
Residential activity
Related definitions
Road
Mobility parking space
means a parking space designed and reserved for the exclusive use
of people whose mobility is restricted and who have a mobility
permit issued. Mobility parking space also means 'accessible
park/parking' and 'disabled/disability park/parking' as referred to in
various standards and guidance documents.
Modulation
Reliant definitions
means the use of vertical and horizontal changes in the form and scale
of a building and between adjoining buildings, including changes in
roof height, building projections or recesses, to create clearly defined
buildings or building elements. An example illustration is provided in
Figure 2.2 below.
Building
Height
Related definitions
Articulation
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Figure 2.2 Example illustration of modulation
Motor-servicing facility
Reliant definitions
means land and/or buildings used for the servicing, repair (including
panel beating and spray painting repair) of motor vehicles, agricultural
machinery or boats and ancillary activities (including the sale and/or
fitting of accessories).
Building
Related definitions
Automotive and/or
marine supplier
Multi-unit residential complex
Reliant definitions
means a group of two four or more residential units where the group
is either held under one title or unit titles under the Unit Titles Act 2010
with a body corporate.
Residential unit
Related definitions
Apartment
Duplex
Terrace
N
National Grid
means the national grid as defined in the National Policy Statement on
Electricity Transmission 2008.
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Natural surveillance
means the discouragement of inappropriate behaviour by the presence
of passers-by or the ability of people to be seen out of surrounding
windows. Also known as passive surveillance (or supervision).
Neighbourhood block area
Related definitions
means an area of no less than 8ha with a New Neighbourhood
zoning.
Neighbourhood plan
Neighbourhood block area - (M.E.D).
Related definitions
means an area of no less than 8ha with a New Neighbourhood
zoning.
Neighbourhood plan -
(M.E.D.)
Neighbourhood centre
Related definitions
means
a. the Commercial Core Zone and in some locations, the
Commercial Fringe Zone, at Addington, Aranui, Avonhead,
Bishopdale, Bush Inn/Church Corner, Colombo/Beaumont,
Edgeware, Fendalton, Ferrymead, Halswell, Ilam/Clyde,
Merivale, New Brighton, North West Belfast, Parklands,
Prestons (emerging), Redcliffs, Richmond, Stanmore/Worcester,
Spreydon (Barrington), St Martins, Sumner, Sydenham,
Sydenham South, Upper Riccarton (Peer Street),
Wairakei/Greers Road, West Spreydon (Lincoln Road),
Woolston, Wainoni and Yaldhurst (emerging);
b. the Commercial Local Zone at Beckenham and Wigram; and
c. the Commercial Banks Peninsula Zone at Lyttelton and Akaroa.
Commercial centre
District centre
Key activity centres
Large format centre
Local centre
Neighbourhood plan
Related definitions
means a plan covering an area of no less than 8ha in a New
Neighbourhood Zone which identifies the expected residential
development for that land.
Development plan
Neighbourhood block
area
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Neighbourhood plan - (M.E.D.)
Related definitions
means a plan covering an area of no less than 8ha in a New
Neighbourhood Zone which identifies the expected residential
development for that land.
Development plan -
(M.E.D.)
Neighbourhood block
area - (M.E.D.)
Net floor area
Reliant definitions
unless otherwise specified, means the sum of the floor areas, each
measured to the inside of the exterior walls of the building or buildings,
and shall include the net floor area of any accessory building, but shall
exclude any floor area used for:
a. lift wells, including the assembly area immediately outside the lift
doors for a maximum depth of 2m;
b. tank rooms, boiler and heating rooms, machine rooms, bank
vaults;
c. those parts of any basement not used for residential, commercial
or industrial activities;
d. parking and/or loading areas including basement parking which
extends no more than 1m above ground level;
e. 50% of any pedestrian arcade, or ground floor foyer, which is
available for public thoroughfare;
f. covered access ways;
g. roof terraces that are for residential or staff use only, are
uncovered and open (apart from a balustrade) to the outside air
on at least three sides; and
h. decks that are for residential or staff use only, are uncovered
and open (apart from a balustrade) to the outside air on at least
three sides and which do not extend more than 800mm in height
above ground level and cover less than 15% of the net site area.
The following are excluded for commercial activities (including hotels
and guest accommodation) only:
i. all stairwells (including landing areas);
j. toilets and bathrooms, provided that in the case of any hotel or
guest accommodation the maximum area permitted to be
excluded for each unit shall be 3m2; and
k. that part of a balcony that is within 2m from an exterior wall of a
building, provided that the balcony is open to the outside air
(apart from a balustrade) on at least one side.
The following are excluded for residential activities only:
l. shared stairwells;
m. garages and carports; and
n. all balconies.
Accessory building
Access way
Balcony
Building
Commercial activities
Garage
Ground level
Guest accommodation
Height
Hotel
Industrial activity
Loading area
Net site area
Parking area
Residential activity
Related definitions
Gross floor area
Gross leasable floor
area
Ground floor area
Plot ratio
Public floor area
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Net site area
Reliant definitions
in relation to a site or allotment, means the total area of the site or
allotment less any area subject to a designation for any purpose, any
strip of land 6m or less in width and any area of land where that land is
the shared access for more than one site.
Access
Allotment
Site
Related definitions
Boundary
Net site area - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
in relation to a site or allotment, means the total area of the site or
allotment less any area subject to a designation for any purpose,
any strip of land 6m or less in width and any area of land where
that land is the shared access for more than one site.
Access - (M.E.D.)
Allotment - (M.E.D.)
Site - (M.E.D.)
Related definitions
Boundary - (M.E.D.)
Network infrastructure
[has the same meaning as in s 197 of the Local Government Act
2002]
Related definitions
means the provision of roads and other transport, water, wastewater,
and stormwater collection and management.
Community
infrastructure
Development
contribution
Network utility operation
[has the same meaning as in s 166 of the Resource Management
Act 1991]
(See Network utility operator)
Network utility operator
[has the same meaning as in s 166 of the Resource Management Act
1991]
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means a person who—
a. undertakes or proposes to undertake the distribution or
transmission by pipeline of natural or manufactured gas,
petroleum, biofuel, or geothermal energy; or
b. operates or proposes to operate a network for the purpose of—
i. telecommunication as defined in Section 5 of the
Telecommunications Act 2001; or
ii. radiocommunication as defined in Section 2(1) of the
Radiocommunications Act 1989; or
c. is an electricity operator or electricity distributor as defined in
Section 2 of the Electricity Act 1992 for the purpose of line
function services as defined in that section; or
d. undertakes or proposes to undertake the distribution of water for
supply (including irrigation); or
e. undertakes or proposes to undertake a drainage or sewerage
system; or
f. constructs, operates, or proposes to construct or operate, a road
or railway line; or
g. is an airport authority as defined by the Airport Authorities Act
1966 for the purposes of operating an airport as defined by that
Act; or
h. is a provider of any approach control service within the meaning
of the Civil Aviation Act 1990; or
i. undertakes or proposes to undertake a project or work
prescribed as a network utility operation for the purposes of this
definition by regulations made under this Act,—
and the words network utility operation have a corresponding meaning.
New neighbourhood entry lot
Reliant definitions
means a separate lot in a New Neighbourhood Zone used primarily for
vehicles to gain entry to a lot or lots and which is legally encumbered
to prevent the construction of buildings.
Building
Lot
Related definitions
Access
New neighbourhood hectare
Reliant definitions
means a continuous 10,000m2 of land for:
a. residential activities, including all associated open space
and on-site parking areas;
b. roads but excluding State Highways, and major arterial
roads; and
Access strip
Council
Esplanade reserve
High flood hazard
Major arterial roads
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c. neighbourhood reserves of 3,000m2 or larger as managed
under the relevant Activity Management Plan under the
Local Government Act 2002.
but excludes land:
d. to be vested in the Council as a local purpose reserve;
e. subject to rock roll, liquefaction, subsidence or high flood
hazard and where these geotechnical constraints are not
going to be remedied so that the land can contain
residential units;
f. set aside to protect significant ecological, cultural, historic
heritage, or landscape values;
g. set aside for esplanade reserves or access strips that form
part of a Garden and Heritage Park, Regional Park, Sports
Park or Cemetery as managed under the relevant Activity
Management Plan under the Local Government Act 2002.
Parking area
Reserve
Residential activity
Residential unit
Road
New neighbourhood hectare - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means a continuous 10,000m2 of land for:
a. residential activities, including all associated open space and
on-site parking areas;
b. roads but excluding State Highways, and major arterial
roads; and
c. neighbourhood reserves of 3,000m2 or larger as managed
under the relevant Activity Management Plan under the
Local Government Act 2002.
but excludes land:
d. to be vested in the Council as a local purpose reserve;
e. subject to rock roll, liquefaction, subsidence or high flood
hazard and where these geotechnical constraints are not
going to be remedied so that the land can contain
residential units;
f. set aside to protect significant ecological, cultural, historic
heritage, or landscape values;
g. set aside for esplanade reserves or access strips that form
part of a Garden and Heritage Park, Regional Park, Sports
Park or Cemetery as managed under the relevant Activity
Management Plan under the Local Government Act 2002.
Council - (M.E.D.)
Residential activity -
(M.E.D.)
Residential unit -
(M.E.D.)
New neighbourhood net density
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Reliant definitions
means the number of household units per new neighbourhood
hectare.
New neighbourhood
hectare
New neighbourhood net density - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means the number of household units per new neighbourhood
hectare.
New neighbourhood
hectare - (M.E.D.)
New neighbourhood residential unit types
Reliant definitions
means a residential unit type that falls within "Exploring New
Housing Choices for Changing Lifestyles" (Christchurch City
Council, November 2011) types 2-9.
Council
Residential Unit
New neighbourhood target yield
Reliant definitions
means the neighbourhood block area less any:
a. stormwater detention and treatment areas;
b. geo-technically constrained areas (e.g. areas that are
subject to high flood hazard and/or subsidence);
c. areas of significant ecological, cultural, heritage or
landscape value;
d. esplanade reserves or access strips;
e. land that forms part of a larger regional or sub-regional
reserve network;
f. commercial or industrial activity; and
g. community facilities.
Access strip
Commercial activities
Community facility
Esplanade reserve
High flood hazard
Industrial activity
Neighbourhood block
area
Reserve
Ngāi Tahu/Manawhenua
Related definitions
means customary authority, those who have customary
authority.
Wairuatanga
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No complaints covenant
Reliant definitions
in relation to the Port Influences Overlay Area, means a covenant
which is:
a. registered against the title(s) of the land upon which the proposal
is situated; and
b. willingly entered into by the resource consent applicant, in favour
of the Lyttelton Port Company Limited, to the effect that no
owner or occupier or successor in title of the covenanted land
shall object to, complain about, bring or contribute to any
proceedings under any statute or otherwise oppose any adverse
environmental effects (including noise, dust, traffic, vibration,
glare or odour) resulting from any lawfully established port
activities.
Port activities
Related definitions
Sensitive activities
Noxious or offensive activity
Related definitions
means;
a. blood or offal treating, bone boiling or crushing, dag crushing,
fellmongering, fish cleaning or curing, gut scraping and treating,
tallow melting;
b. flax pulping, flock manufacture or teasing of textile materials for
any purpose, wood pulping;
c. storage and disposal of sewage, septic tank sludge or refuse;
d. slaughtering of animals; storage, drying or preserving of bones,
hides, hoofs or skins; tanning; wool scouring;
e. the burning of waste oil in the open air or in any combustion
processes involving fuel-burning equipment;
f. any other processes involving fuel-burning equipment, if carried
out primarily for the purposes of producing energy, which
singly or together individually or in combination with other
equipment, have a maximum fuel-burning rate of up to
1000kg/hr or more carbonaceous fuels or those containing
hydrocarbons or sulphur;
g. the open burning of coated or covered metal cable or wire,
including metal coated or covered with varnish, lacquers, plastic
or rubber;
h. any activity with the potential to discharge asbestos to air
including the removal or disposal of friable asbestos, except
where it complies with the Health and Safety in Employment
(Asbestos) Regulations 1998 and is supervised and monitored
by Occupational Safety and Health staff;
i. burning out of the residual content of metal containers used for
the transport or storage of chemicals;
Industrial activity
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j. the burning of municipal, commercial or industrial wastes,
whether by open fire or the use of incinerators for disposal of
waste;
k. any industrial wood pulp process in which wood or other
cellulose material is cooked with chemical solutions to dissolve
lining, and the associated processes of bleaching and chemical
and by-product recovery; and
l. crematoriums.
O
Office
Related definitions
means any of the following:
a. administrative offices where the administration of an
organisation, whether trading or non-trading, is conducted and
includes bank administration offices; and
b. professional offices where professional services are available
and carried out and includes the offices of accountants,
solicitors, architects, surveyors, engineers and consultants.
Ancillary office activity
Commercial activities
Commercial services
Industrial activity
Urban activities
Office furniture, equipment and systems suppliers
Reliant definitions
means businesses primarily engaged in selling goods for office
use and includes suppliers of:
a. computers and related equipment;
b. copiers, printers and facsimile machines;
c. integrated telephone systems and equipment; and
d. office furniture, equipment and utensils.
Office
Related definitions
Trade supplier
One network approach
Reliant definitions
means components of the transport system are well-connected (within
Christchurch District and with adjoining districts) and managed in a
coordinated way as a single, integrated system to ensure that travel
across the transport system is as seamless and consistent as
possible.
Christchurch District
Transport system
Related definitions
Mixed modal link
Park and ride facilities
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Orangatanga
means to maintain the health and wellbeing of the community
through promotion of environmental protection and safe
communities.
Outdoor advertisement
Reliant definitions
means any sign or device, graphics or display of whatever nature
visible from a public place, for the purposes of:
a. identification of and provision of information about any activity,
site or building;
b. providing directions;
c. promoting goods, services or forthcoming events; or
d. containing a message directed at the general public whether
temporary or otherwise.
Outdoor advertisements include any sign, device or display, whether
three-dimensional or otherwise, that is manufactured, painted, written,
printed, carved, embossed, inflated, projected onto or otherwise fixed
to or attached upon any external surface of any building or in the open
on any site, wall, pole, hoarding or structure or erection of any kind
whatsoever, or onto any rock, stone, tree or other object. Outdoor
advertisements include any method of illumination, whether by an
internal or external non-neutral light source; any advertisement
displayed upon any parked vehicle and/or trailer for the express
purpose of directing attention to any activity, site or building; and any
tethered balloon of more than 0.5m in diameter.
Building
Site
Related definitions
Public artwork
Outdoor living space
Reliant definitions
means an area of open space for the exclusive use of the occupants of
the residential unit to which the space is allocated and, in the
Residential Medium Density Zone, can include indoor communal
recreation and leisure areas for the benefit of all residents of the site.
Residential unit
Site
Related definitions
Outdoor service space
Waste management
area
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Outdoor service space
Reliant definitions
means the area identified on a site for outdoor drying of washing and
the storage of items such as BBQs and gardening tools and
equipment.
Site
Related definitions
Outdoor living space
Waste management area
Outdoor storage area
Reliant definitions
means any land used for the purpose of storing vehicles, equipment,
machinery and/or natural or processed products outside of fully
enclosed buildings for periods in excess of 12 weeks a specified
period in any year.
Building
Related definitions
Industrial activity
Mineral extraction
activity
Noxious or offensive
activity
Port activities
Service industry
Warehousing and
distribution activities
Outline development plan
Related definitions
means a plan of a specified area which identifies, in a general manner,
key features and constraints for the development of that land.
Development plan
Master plan
P
Park and ride facilities
Reliant definitions
means a parking building and/or parking lot (and associated facilities,
including any cycle parking) provided primarily for the patrons of a
nearby public transport service to assist their modal transfer to the
public transport service.
Parking building
Parking lot
Related definitions
Public transport facility
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Parking area
Reliant definitions
means that part of a site or building within which vehicle parking
spaces and manoeuvring are accommodated, and includes all
parking spaces, manoeuvring areas and landscaping areas
associated with vehicle parking on a site.
Building
Landscaping
Manoeuvre area
Site
Related definitions
Parking building
Parking lot
Paved impermeable
surface
Public floor area
Vehicle control point
Parking building
Reliant definitions
means a building that has multiple storeys used primarily for parking of
motor vehicles and which is not provided to meet demand associated
with an activity or development on the same site. A parking building
includes parking spaces, manoeuvring areas, access and landscaping
areas associated with the parking.
Access
Building
Landscaping
Manoeuvre area
Site
Related definitions
Parking area
Parking lot
Parking lot
Reliant definitions
means stand-alone single level parking facilities at ground level used
primarily for parking of motor vehicles and which are not provided to
meet demand associated with an activity or development on the same
site. A parking lot includes parking spaces, manoeuvring areas,
access and landscaping areas associated with the parking.
Access
Ground level
Landscaping
Manoeuvre area
Site
Related definitions
Parking area
Parking building
Paved impermeable
surface
Parking space
Reliant definitions
means a space on a site capable of, and available at any time for, Site
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accommodating one stationary 85 percentile motor vehicle excluding
any spaces set aside for the display of vehicles.
Paved impermeable surface
Reliant definitions
in relation to any site, means any part of that site which is
impermeable and includes:
a. decks less than 1m in height above the ground immediately
below;
b. pools which protrude less than 1m in height above ground
level;
c. any area used for uncovered parking, manoeuvring, access
or uncovered loading of motor vehicles; and
d. any area with a continuous surface of concrete, bitumen or
paving with slabs, bricks, 'gobi' or similar blocks.
The following shall not be included in the meaning of 'paved
impermeable surface':
e. paths of less than 1m in width; and
f. buildings.
Access
Building
Ground level
Height
Loading
Site
Related definitions
Impervious surface
Pedestrian access way
Reliant definitions
(see Access way) Access way
Peripheral boundary length
Reliant definitions
means the length of the entire peripheral boundary of an area of land
that is completely enclosed by other land and to which the general
public have a permanent right of access.
Boundary
PFA
Reliant definitions
(see Public floor area) Public floor area
Place of assembly
Reliant definitions
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means the use of land and/or buildings used principally for the
public or private assembly of people for recreation, education,
worship, culture or deliberation purposes and includes recreation and
entertainment facilities, clubrooms, pavilions, school halls and
auditoriums, churches and church halls, and community facilities
such as community halls and libraries.
Building
Community facility
Entertainment facility
Recreation facility
Related definitions
Spiritual facility
Plot ratio
Reliant definitions
means the relationship between net floor area of the building and the
net site area, and is expressed by the formula:
plot ratio = net floor area
net site area
Building
Net floor area
Net site area
Site
Point strip
Reliant definitions
means a strip of land generally not more than 0.2m wide created
along the side or end of a road, where the presence of the
formation of that road provides a benefit to other owners of
contiguous land, who have the potential to subdivide or develop
that land, and who should contribute a fair and reasonable share
in the costs of construction and, where applicable, land value.
Road
Related definitions
Development
Subdivision
Pool area
for the purpose of calculating loading, car and cycle loading, car and
cycle parking requirements for a swimming pool, means the surface
area of water within a swimming pool. The pool area does not include
any associated poolside area, changing room facilities or storage
areas.
Port activities
Reliant definitions
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means the use of land, wharves, plant, equipment, buildings and
other port facilities and structures for:
a. cargo handling, including the loading, unloading, storage,
processing and transit of cargo and passengers;
b. passenger handling, including the loading, unloading and
transit of passengers, and passenger or cruise ship terminals;
c. port administration;
d. maintenance and repair facilitiesactivities, including the
maintenance and repair of vessels;
e. marine-related trade and industry training facilities;
f. marine-related industrial activities, including ship and boat
building activities;
g. warehousesing in support of (a)-(f), (h) and (i), and distribution
activities, including bulk fuel, storage and ancillary pipeline
networksareas and facilities;
h. facilities for recreational boating, including yachting; and
i. activities associated with the surface navigation, berthing,
manoeuvring, refuelling, storage, servicing and providoring of
vessels;
j. ancillary transport infrastructure, buildings, structures, signs,
utilities, parking areas, landscaping, hazardous facilities,
offices and other facilities, and earthworks; and
k. ancillary food and beverage outlets in support of the above.:
i. berthing; and
ii. departure and surface movements of ships.
Building
Parking area
Related definitions
Ancillary office activity
Outdoor storage area
Warehousing and
distribution activities
Potable water
means drinking water which complies with the Drinking Water
Standards for New Zealand 2005 (Revised 2008).
Pre-school
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings used for the early childhood
education or care of more than four or more children (in addition to any
children resident on the site or the children of the persons providing the
education or care) under the age of six years by the day or part of a day,
but not for any continuous period of more than seven consecutive days.
Includes a crèche, after-school care facility, kindergarten, kohanga
reo or play centre, but does not include a school.
Building
Site
Related definitions
Education activity
Sensitive activities
Pressurised injection
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Reliant definitions
for the purposes of Rule 5.8.2, means injection of grout at more than
25 bar at the pump.
Grout
Primary living level
Reliant definitions
means the level in a residential unit in which the kitchen is contained. Residential unit
Principal building
Reliant definitions
means a building, buildings or part of a building accommodating the
activity for which the site is primarily used.
Building
Site
Related definitions
Accessory building
Private Car Park
A carpark which is not open to the general public or casual users.
Private way
[has the same meaning as in s 315 of the Local Government Act 1974]
means any way or passage whatsoever over private land within a
district, the right to use which is confined or intended to be confined to
certain persons or classes of persons, and which is not thrown open or
intended to be open to the use of the public generally; and includes
any such way or passage as aforesaid which at the commencement of
this Part exists within any district.
Public area
means those parts of any building and associated outdoor areas
normally available for use by the general public, exclusive of any
areas used for services or access.
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Public artwork
Related definitions
means any object, figure, image, character, outline, spectacle, display,
delineation, audio or visual installation (including but not limited to
projection or illumination, static or otherwise), announcement, poster
or sculpture that is used principally to enhance public spaces, whether
it is placed on, affixed or tethered to any land or building, or any
footpath or pavement (subject to any Council bylaws or traffic
management requirement), incorporated within the design of any
building (whether by painting or otherwise) and not used as an outdoor
advertisement or for any purpose other than as public artwork.
Building
Council
Outdoor advertisement
Public floor area (PFA)
Reliant definitions
means the sum of the total area of all floors contained within the
external walls of any building or within the boundaries of any outdoor
area available for the use of the general public in association with the
activity, excluding any areas used for:
a. lift wells, including the assembly area outside the lift doors for a
maximum depth of 2m;
b. stairwells, including landing areas;
c. toilets and bathrooms; and
d. parking and/or loading areas; and
e. all areas used exclusively by staff, such as kitchens,
storage areas, internal loading/unloading areas, rubbish
areas, staff rooms/offices and amenities.
Boundary
Building
Loading area
Parking area
Related definitions
Gross floor area
Gross leasable floor
area
Net floor area
Publicly accessible
space
Publicly accessible space
Reliant definitions
means courtyards, lane ways, access ways or areas that are in private
or public ownership, through which the public can commonly pass, and
which are free of physical barriers such as gates.
Access way
Lane way
Related definitions
Private way
Public floor area
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Public transport facility
Reliant definitions
means land and/or buildings used for, or ancillary to, scheduled
passenger transport services and may include a public transport
interchange, park and ride facilities, bus bays, taxi ranks, drop-off and
pick-up points, cycle parking, shelters, waiting rooms, ticket office,
information centre, luggage lockers, public toilets, showers and
changing rooms.
Building
Park and ride facilities
Public transport
interchange
Related definitions
Mixed modal link
Public transport interchange
Reliant definitions
means a public transport facility with a building that provides shelter for
waiting passengers, where two or more public transport routes and/or
modes converge and which enables passengers to change between
different routes and modes, including public transport, walking and
cycling.
Building
Public transport facility
Related definitions
Park and ride facilities
Q
Queuing space
Reliant definitions
means the area of an access between the site boundary and the
vehicle control point available for the queuing of vehicles.
Access
Site boundary
Vehicle control point
R
Radiocommunications
means: any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing,
images, sounds, or intelligence of any nature by radio waves.
Rail siding
Reliant definitions
means a (generally short) section of rail, off a main rail line, that
provides access to and from a site, yard or development (including
industrial activities, quarries and wharves) and which is used to store
stationary rolling stock whilst it is loaded or unloaded.
Access
Development
Industrial activity
Site
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Rangatiratanga
means to promote self-determination and independence.
Rear site
Reliant definitions
means a site which is situated generally to the rear of another site,
both sites having access to the same road or private road. The rear
site shall have access to such road or private road by means of an
access strip.
Access
Access strip
Road
Site
Related definitions
Corner site
Front site
Recreation activity
Reliant definitions
means the use of land, water bodies and/or buildings principally for the
active or passive enjoyment of sports, recreation or leisure, whether
competitive or non-competitive, casual or organised, and whether a
charge is made for admission or not.
Building
Water body
Related definitions
Entertainment activity
Recreation facility
Temporary buildings
and activities
Urban activities
Recreation facility
Reliant definitions
means land and/or buildings used for recreation activities. Building
Recreation activity
Related definitions
Entertainment facility
Place of assembly
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Relocatable building
Reliant definitions
means a building easily capable of and intended for relocation, either
in part or whole, to another site.
Building
Site
Related definitions
Relocation of a building
Relocation of a building
Reliant definitions
means the removal and re-siting of any building from any site to a new
permanent site, but excludes new (i.e. immediately habitable) buildings
constructed elsewhere specifically for, and subsequently relocated
permanently onto, another site.
Building
Site
Related definitions
Development
Relocatable building
Temporary buildings
and activities
Reserve
Related definitions
means a reserve within the meaning of the Reserves Act 1977. Esplanade reserve
Road reserve
Residential activity
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings, including the construction of
buildings,for the purpose of living accommodation and includes:
a. a residential unit or a family flat (including accessory
buildings);
b. emergency and refuge accommodation; and
c. sheltered housing;
but does not include:
d. guest accommodation; and
e. the use of land and/or buildings for custodial and/or supervised
living accommodation where the residents are detained on the
site; and
f. Accommodation associated with a fire station.
Building
Guest accommodation
Residential unit
Sheltered housing
Related definitions
Accessory building
Elderly person’s
housing unit
Habitable building
Home occupation
Mixed-use
Residential allotment
Retirement village
Sensitive activities
Urban activities
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Residential activity - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings for the purpose of living
accommodation and includes:
a. a residential unit or a family flat;
b. emergency and refuge accommodation; and
c. sheltered housing;
but does not include:
d. guest accommodation;
e. the use of land and/or buildings for custodial and/or
supervised living accommodation where the residents are
detained on the site.
Building - (M.E.D.)
Guest accommodation -
(M.E.D.)
Residential unit -
(M.E.D.)
Sheltered housing -
(M.E.D.)
Related definitions
Accessory building -
(M.E.D.)
Residential amenity
Reliant definitions
means the combination of built and natural aspects of the
development that provide for quality of life enjoyed by occupants
and users of the wider neighbourhood.
Development
Related definitions
Amenity values
Residential building platform
Reliant definitions
for the purposes of Rule 5.8.1, means that area of a site equal to the
ground floor area of the residential unit plus up to 1.8m extending at
ground level beyond its foundations. Note that this definition differs
from that of ‘building consent platform’ used in Rule 5.8.2.
Building
Building consent platform
Ground floor area
Ground level
Residential unit
Site
Residential thoroughfare
Reliant definitions
means a way through the residential unit linking two or more of a
lounge, dining room, bedroom, bathroom, toilet and corridor, hallway
or passageway.
Residential unit
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Residential unit
Reliant definitions
means a self-contained building (or group of buildings including
accessory buildings) used for a residential activity by one or more
persons who form a single household unit or a bed and breakfast.. For
the purposes of this definition:
a. a building used for emergency or refuge accommodation shall be
deemed to be used by a single household;
b. where there is more than one kitchen on a site (other than a
kitchen in a family flat or a kitchenette provided as part of a bed
and breakfast) there shall be deemed to be more than one
residential unit;
c. a residential unit may include no more than one family flat as
part of that residential unit; and
d. a residential unit may be used as a holiday home provided it
does not involve the sale of alcohol, food or other goods.
Accessory building
Building
Residential activity
Site
Related definitions
Accessory building
Principal building
Residential unit - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means a self-contained building (or group of buildings including
accessory buildings) used for a residential activity by one or
more persons who form a single household unit. For the
purposes of this definition:
a. a building used for emergency or refuge accommodation shall
be deemed to be used by a single household;
b. where there is more than one kitchen on a site (other than a
kitchen in a family flat) there shall be deemed to be more
than one residential unit;
c. a residential unit may include no more than one family flat
as part of that residential unit; and
d. a residential unit may be used as a holiday home provided it
does not involve the sale of alcohol, food or other goods.
Accessory building -
(M.E.D.)
Building - (M.E.D.)
Residential activity -
(M.E.D.)
Site - (M.E.D.)
Related definitions
Accessory building -
(M.E.D.)
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Restaurant
Reliant definitions
means any land and/or buildings, or part thereof, principally used for
the sale of meals to the general public and the consumption of those
meals on the premises. Such premises may be licensed under the
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.
Building
Related definitions
Alcohol licence
Café
Food and beverage
outlet
Food court
Hotel
Tavern
Retail activity
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings for displaying or offering
goods for sale or hire to the public and includes food and beverage
outlets, second-hand goods outlets, food courts and commercial mail
order or internet-based transactions. It excludes trade suppliers, yard-
based suppliers and service stations.
Building
Food and beverage outlet
Food court
Second-hand goods
outlet
Service station
Trade supplier
Yard-based supplier
Related definitions
Ancillary retail activity
Commercial activities
Convenience activities
Department store
Drive through services
EDM qualifying
supermarket
Finer grain retailing
Large format centre
Main street
Retailing
Rural selling place
Supermarket
Retailing
Reliant definitions
means both retail activities and commercial services. Commercial services
Retail activity
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Related definitions
Ancillary retail activity
Commercial activities
Convenience activities
Department store
Drive through services
EDM qualifying
supermarket
Finer grain retailing
Large format centre
Main street
Rural selling place
Supermarket
Retirement village
Reliant definitions
means any land, building or site used for a comprehensive residential
development that contains two or more residential units, together with
services and/or facilities for on-site residents and staff (for example,
(including care facilities, and hospital care, recreation, leisure, welfare
facilities and activities, and other non-residential activities accessory to
the retirement village), predominantly for persons in their retirement or
persons in their retirement and their spouses or partners, and and
includes:
a retirement village as defined in s.6 of the Retirement Villages Act 2003;
a rest home defined in s.58(4) of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001 accessory nursing and medical care; and
Elderly Persons Housing. for which the residents pay, or agree to pay, a capital sum as
consideration and regardless of whether:
a. a resident's right of occupation of any residential unit is
provided by way of freehold or leasehold title, crosslease
title, unit title, lease, licence to occupy, residential tenancy,
or other form of assurance, for life or any other term; or
b. the form of the consideration for that right is a lump sum
payment or deduction, or a contribution or a payment in
kind of any form, a periodic payment or deduction, or any
combination of such payments or deductions, whether
made before, during, or after occupancy; or
c. the consideration is actually paid or agreed to be paid by a
particular resident or particular residents or on behalf of
that resident or those residents, or by another person for
Building
Care facility
Hospital
Residential unit
Site
Related definitions
Health care facility
Sensitive activities
Sheltered housing
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the benefit of that resident or those residents; or
d. the resident makes an additional payment or periodical
payment (for example, a service fee) for any services or
facilities or access to such services or facilities; or
e. the services or facilities, or both, are provided by the owner
of the land, building or site, or by any other person under an
arrangement with the operator of the retirement village.
A retirement village includes any common areas and facilities to
which residents of the retirement village have access under their
occupation rights agreements.
Reverse sensitivity
Related definitions
means the effect on existing activities from the introduction of new
activities into the same environment. This may take the form of
restrictions on existing activities as a consequence of complaints,
where the new activities may raise concerns or complaints
regarding the effects of existing activities which could lead to
restrictions being placed on the existing activities.
No-complaints
covenant
Right-of-way
Reliant definitions
(see Access) Access
Related definitions
Access strip
Right turn offset
means a situation where a vehicle waiting to turn right at an
intersection may queue in such a way as not to obstruct the path of
vehicles turning left or heading straight through the intersection.
Road
[has the same meaning as in s 315 of the Local Government Act 1974]
means the whole of any land which is within a district, and which—
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a. immediately before the commencement of this Part was a road
or street or public highway; or
b. immediately before the inclusion of any area in the district was a
public highway within that area; or
c. is laid out by the council as a road or street after the
commencement of this Part; or
d. is vested in the council for the purpose of a road as shown on a
deposited survey plan; or
e. is vested in the council as a road or street pursuant to any other
enactment;—
and includes—
f. except where elsewhere provided in this Part, any access way or
service lane which before the commencement of this Part was
under the control of any council or is laid out or constructed by or
vested in any council as an access way or service lane or is
declared by the Minister of Works and Development as an
access way or service lane after the commencement of this Part
or is declared by the Minister of Lands as an access way or
service lane on or after 1 April 1988:
g. every square or place intended for use of the public generally,
and every bridge, culvert, drain, ford, gate, building, or other
thing belonging thereto or lying upon the line or within the limits
thereof;—
but, except as provided in the Public Works Act 1981 or in any
regulations under that Act, does not include a motorway within
the meaning of that Act or the Government Roading Powers Act
1989.
Road boundary
Reliant definitions
(see Boundary) Boundary
Road
Road reserve
Reliant definitions
means a Local Purpose Reserve (Road) within the meaning of the
Reserves Act 1977.
Road
Related definitions
Reserve
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Roadway
Reliant definitions
means that portion of the road devoted particularly to the use of
motor vehicles, inclusive of shoulders and auxiliary lanes.(see
carriageway)
Road
Related definitions
Carriageway
Cycle lane
Rural produce
Related definitions
means fruit, vegetables, flowers or other similar farm products
primarily grown and/or processed on a property in a rural zone.
Rural selling place
Rural roads
Reliant definitions
means all roads outside the existing urban area as shown on Map A of
Chapter 6 of the Canterbury Regional Policy Statement, except for
roads adjoining any residential and/or commercial zone in
Christchurch District.
Note: Rural roads are generally the roads classified as Rural or Semi-
rural in the road classification system in the Christchurch Transport
Strategic Plan.
Adjoining
Christchurch District
Road
Related definitions
Urban roads
Rural selling place
Reliant definitions
means any land, building or part of a building located in a rural zone,
on or in which rural produce is offered for sale by wholesale and/or
retail, and includes any land, building or part of a building on or in
which rural produce is weighed and packaged.
Building
Rural produce
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Second-hand goods outlet
Related definitions
means a business primarily engaged in selling pre-used merchandise
and includes:
a. antique dealers;
b. auctioneers;
c. charity shops;
d. pawnbrokers;
e. second-hand shops; and
f. suppliers of:
i. demolition goods and materials; and
ii trade-in goods.
Retail activity
Yard-based supplier
Sense of place
means the combination of characteristics (including historic, social,
cultural, natural and built characteristics) that make a place unique and
distinctive, and the human experience of these characteristics over
time.
Sensitive activities
Reliant definitions
means:
i. Residential activities;
ii. Education activities;
iii. Guest accommodation; and
iv. Health care facilities;
v. Custodial correction facilities with overnight
accommodation
But excludes in relation to airport noise
(a) Any residential activities in conjunction with rural activities
that comply with the rules in the relevant district plans as at
23 August 2008;
Accessory building
Care facility
Commercial activities
District Plan
Education activity
Elderly person’s housing
unit
Guest accommodation
Health care facility
Hospital
Industrial activity
Pre-school
Residential activity
Residential unit
Rural activity
Trade and industry
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(b) flight training or other trade and industry training facilities
located on land zoned or legally used for commercial or
industrial activities; and
(c) Guest accommodation, which is designed, constructed and
operated to a standard to mitigate the effects of aircraft
noise on occupant
(d) Health care facilities with no accommodation for overnight
care.
a. in relation to electricity-related assets:
i. residential activities;
ii. education activities including pre‐schools;
iii. guest accommodation;
iv. health care facilities and any elderly persons’ housing
units or complex.
b. in relation to noise:
i. residential activities, including family flats and any
elderly persons' housing units or complex, but
excluding those in conjunction with rural activities that
comply with the rules in the relevant district plans as at
23 August 2008;
ii. education activities including pre-schools, but not
including flight training or other trade and industry
training facilities located on land zoned or legally used
for commercial or industrial activities;
iii. guest accommodation, except that which is designed,
constructed and operated to a standard to mitigate the
effects of aircraft noise on occupants within the airport
noise contours;
iv. health care facilities; and
v. any one or more of the following activities located in the
Port Influences Overlay Area shown on the planning
maps:
A. residential unit or family flat, a habitable accessory
building, or a residential activity;
B. elderly persons’ housing complex or care facility;
C. education activities;
D. any health care facilities, including hospitals or
convalescent homes, that contain sleeping facilities
for any person; and
E. guest accommodation.
training facility
Related definitions
No-complaints
covenant
Reverse sensitivity
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Service industry
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings for the transport, storage,
maintenance or repair of goods and vehicles and the hire of
commercial and industrial equipment and machinery.
Building
Service lane
Reliant definitions
means any lane laid out or constructed either by the authority of the
Council or the Minister of Transport for the purpose of providing the
public with a side or rear access for vehicular traffic to any land.
Access
Council
Service station
Reliant definitions
means any site where the primary activity is the retail sale of motor
vehicle fuels, including petrol, LPG, CNG and diesel, and may include
any one or more of the following ancillary activities:
a. the sale or hire of kerosene, alcohol based fuels, lubricating oils,
tyres, batteries, vehicle spare parts, trailers and other
accessories normally associated with motor vehicles;
b. the mechanical repair, servicing and cleaning of motor vehicles
(other than heavy vehicles) and domestic garden equipment but
not panel beating, spray painting and heavy engineering such as
engine reboring and crankshaft grinding;
c. truck stops;
d. inspection and certification of motor vehicles;
e. the ancillary sale of other goods for the convenience and
comfort of service station customers;
but shall not include any industrial activity.
Heavy vehicle
Industrial activity
Site
Related definitions
Drive-through services
Service industry
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Setback
Reliant definitions
means the distance between a building and the boundary of its site or
other specified item.
Boundary
Building
Site
Related definitions
Building line restriction
Setback - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means the distance between a building and the boundary of its
site or other specified item.
Boundary - (M.E.D.)
Building - (M.E.D.)
Site - (M.E.D.)
Sheltered housing
Reliant definitions
means a residential unit or units used solely for the accommodation of
persons for whom on-site professional emergency care, assistance or
response is available, but not where residents are detained on the site.
Residential unit
Site
Sheltered housing - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means a residential unit or units used solely for the
accommodation of persons for whom on-site professional
emergency care, assistance or response is available, but not
where residents are detained on the site.
Residential unit -
(M.E.D.)
Site - (M.E.D.)
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Show Home
Reliant definitions
means a building or part of a building constructed as a residential
unit, that is displayed and promoted to encourage people to buy or
construct similar residential units at a different site (although upon
sale, may remain on the same site or be relocated).
Building
Residential unit
Site
Significant indigenous vegetation
Reliant definitions
means indigenous vegetation that has been assessed as meeting any
one or more of the criteria set out in Appendix 3 of the Canterbury
Regional Policy Statement.
Indigenous vegetation
Related definitions
Vegetation clearance
Site
Reliant definitions
means an area of land or volume of space shown on a plan with
defined boundaries, whether legally or otherwise defined boundaries,
and includes:
a. an area of land which is:
i. comprised in a single allotment, or other legally defined
parcel of land, and held in a single certificate of title; or
ii. comprised in a single allotment or legally defined parcel of
land for which a separate certificate of title could be issued
without further consent of the Council;
being in any case the smaller land area of (i) or (ii); or
b. an area of land which comprises two or more adjoining legally
defined parcels of land held together in one certificate of title in
such a way that the lots cannot be dealt with separately without
prior consent of the Council; or
c. an area of land which is comprised of two or more adjoining
certificates of title where such titles are:
i. subject to a condition imposed under Section 77 of the
Building Act 2004 or;
ii. held together in such a way that they cannot be dealt with
separately without the prior consent of the Council;
d. in the case of land subdivided under the cross lease or company
lease systems (other than strata titles), site shall mean an area
of land containing:
i. a building or buildings for residential or business purposes
with any accessory building(s), plus any land exclusively
Access
Accessory building
Adjoining
Allotment
Boundary
Building
Council
Education facility
Legally defined parcel of
land
Lot
Residential unit
Subdivision
Tertiary education or
research facility
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restricted to the users of that/those building(s); or
ii. a remaining share or shares in the fee simple creating a
vacant part(s) of the whole for future cross lease or
company lease purposes; and
e. in the case of land subdivided under the Unit Titles Act 1972
and Unit Titles Act 2010 (other than strata titles), site shall mean
an area of land containing a principal unit or proposed unit on a
unit plan together with its accessory units and common area;
and
f. in the case of strata titles, or where one or more residential unit
is proposed to be erected above another residential unit, site
shall mean the underlying certificate of title of the entire land
containing the strata titles, immediately prior to subdivision; and
g. for the purposes of the activity standards (but not the built
form or general city-wide standards) in the Specific
Purposes (Schools) and Specific Purposes (Tertiary
Education) Zones, site means all of the land used by a
particular education or tertiary education or research
facility, whether or not those parcels of land are contiguous
with each other.
Site also shall include the access to the site.
Site boundary
Reliant definitions
(see Boundary) Boundary
Sleep-out
Reliant definitions
means an accessory building or part of an accessory building with a
gross floor area of no more than 25m² designed for sleeping
accommodation only, which is not self-contained except for the
provision of a toilet and/or bathroom, and which is located no more
than 40m from the residential unit on the same site, to which it is
accessory.
Accessory building
Gross floor area
Residential unit
Site
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Social housing
Reliant definitions
means residential units owned by Housing New Zealand, the
Christchurch City Council, a not-for-profit housing entity or a registered
community housing provider (under Part 1 of the Housing
Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Act 1992), where one of these
parties is in a public/private development relationship to provide
mixed tenure housing, and where the provision of residential units is
to help low and modest income households and other disadvantaged
groups to access appropriate and secure housing that is affordable.
Council
Residential unit
Related definitions
Community housing
unit
Spiritual activity
means the use of land and/or buildings for the public and/or
private assembly of people primarily for worship, meditation,
spiritual deliberation and for ancillary social and community
support services associated with the spiritual activity; the
ancillary hire/use of church buildings for community groups and
activities; and for temporary activities (as defined under
“Temporary buildings and activities”, clause (b))..
Spiritual facility
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings used for the public and/or
private assembly of people primarily for worship, meditation,
spiritual deliberation and ancillary community activities.
Building
Related definitions
Community facility
Place of assembly
Spring
means a spring is where groundwater emerges to the surface and
forms a pool, the head of a waterbody, or discharges into a
waterbody; either on a permanent or intermittent basis.
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Standalone house
Reliant definitions
means a single residential unit that is unattached to another residential
unit.
Residential unit
Related definitions
Apartment
Duplex
Terrace
Standalone house - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means a single residential unit that is unattached to another
residential unit.
Residential unit -
(M.E.D.)
Related definitions
Apartment - (M.E.D.)
Duplex - (M.E.D.)
Terrace - (M.E.D.)
Strategic infrastructure
Reliant definitions
means those necessary infrastructure facilities, services and
installations which are of greater than local importance, and can
includes infrastructure that is nationally significant. The following are
examples of strategic infrastructure:
Explanatory note
The following are non-exclusive examples of strategic infrastructure:
a. strategic transport networks;
b. Christchurch International Airport;
c. Lyttelton Port of Christchurch;
d. bulk fuel supply and storage infrastructure including terminals,
wharf lines and pipelines;
e. defence facilities;
f. strategic telecommunication and radiocommunication facilities;
g. the electricity transmission networkNational Grid; and
h. other strategic network utilities public water supply,
wastewater and stormwater networks and associated facilities.
Electricity transmission
network
Strategic transport
networks
Utility
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Strategic road network
Reliant definitions
means state highways and major arterial roads. Arterial roads
Major arterial roads
Road
Related definitions
Strategic transport
networks
Strategic transport networks
Reliant definitions
means:
a. the strategic road network;
b. the rail network;
c. the region's core public passenger transport operations and
significant regional transport hubs (including freight hubs) such
as Christchurch International Airport and Lyttelton Port of
Christchurch; and
d. the strategic cycle network of major cycle routes.
Cycle route
Major cycle route
Road
Strategic road network
Related definitions
Critical infrastructure
Strategic infrastructure
Student hostel accommodation
Reliant definitions
for the purpose of calculating parking and loading space
requirements, means hostels that are not ancillary and accessory to an
education activity, including a tertiary education and research activity.
Education activity
Tertiary education and
research activity
Related definitions
Residential activity
Subdivision
[has the same meaning as in s 218 of the Resource Management Act
1991]
Reliant definitions
means—
a. the division of an allotment—
i. by an application to the Registrar-General of Land for the
issue of a separate certificate of title for any part of the
allotment; or
ii. by the disposition by way of sale or offer for sale of the fee
simple to part of the allotment; or
Allotment
Related definitions
Development
contribution
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iii. by a lease of part of the allotment which, including renewals,
is or could be for a term of more than 35 years; or
iv. by the grant of a company lease or cross lease in respect of
any part of the allotment; or
v. by the deposit of a unit plan, or an application to the
Registrar-General of Land for the issue of a separate
certificate of title for any part of a unit on a unit plan; or
b. an application to the Registrar-General of Land for the issue of a
separate certificate of title in circumstances where the issue of
that certificate of title is prohibited by Section 226,—
and the term subdivide land has a corresponding meaning.
Subdivision - (M.E.D.)
[has the same meaning as in s 218 of the Resource Management
Act 1991]
Reliant definitions
means—
c. the division of an allotment—
vi. by an application to the Registrar-General of Land for
the issue of a separate certificate of title for any part of
the allotment; or
vii. by the disposition by way of sale or offer for sale of the
fee simple to part of the allotment; or
viii. by a lease of part of the allotment which, including
renewals, is or could be for a term of more than 35
years; or
ix. by the grant of a company lease or cross lease in
respect of any part of the allotment; or
x. by the deposit of a unit plan, or an application to the
Registrar-General of Land for the issue of a separate
certificate of title for any part of a unit on a unit plan; or
d. an application to the Registrar-General of Land for the issue
of a separate certificate of title in circumstances where the
issue of that certificate of title is prohibited by Section
226,—
and the term subdivide land has a corresponding meaning.
Allotment - (M.E.D.)
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Supermarket
Related definitions
means an individual retail outlet greater than 1,000m2 with a
specified minimum specific area that sells a comprehensive range of:
a. food, beverage and other disposable goods such as fresh meat
and produce; chilled, frozen, packaged, canned and bottled
foodstuffs and beverages; and general housekeeping and personal
goods; and
b. other household supplies comprising not more than 20% of
all products offered for sale as measured by retail floor space.
Anchor store
Commercial activities
EDM qualifying
supermarket
Food and beverage
outlet
Retail activity
Retailing
Supportive housing
means housing (either individual or shared housing) for
individuals supported by the Salvation Army on the Salvation
Army site in Addington. Shared housing provides for shared meals
and recreation rooms. Individual housing means all inclusive
facilities (kitchen, ablutions). Supportive housing includes
reintegration housing for recently released inmates supported by
the Salvation Army.
Surface water management structure
Reliant definitions
means any structure or area greater than 3m2 designed and
constructed to contain water for either a temporary or permanent
period of time, including a stormwater ponding area, wetland, water
feature or other artificial structure for holding water. It excludes
swimming pools, spa pools and swales for the purpose of conveying
stormwater.
Wetland
Related definitions
Temporary buildings
and activities
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Tavern
Reliant definitions
means any land or building which is the subject of an alcohol licence
authorising the sale to and consumption of alcohol by the general
public on the premises. A tavern may include a bottle store, restaurant
and staff accommodation (but not guest accommodation).
Alcohol licence
Building
Guest accommodation
Restaurant
Related definitions
Food and beverage
outlet
Hotel
Temporary buildings and activities
Reliant definitions
outside of the Central City means buildings and activities that are
intended not to be permanent. Temporary buildings and activities
include:
a. temporary buildings ancillary to an approved building or
construction project;
b. one-off, occasional or recurring community or special events of
short duration, such as carnivals, bazaars, festivals, markets,
public meetings and exhibitions including associated vehicle
parking and ancillary buildings, tents and marquees;
c. temporary buildings and activities following, and to assist in
recovery from, a natural disaster, such as storage yards, public
artworks, recreation and entertainment activities, the temporary
raising of buildings for foundation repairs, and the temporary
relocation of buildings and activities.
Note: Temporary buildings may still be required to comply with the
provisions of the Building Act 2004.
Approved building
Building
Central City
Entertainment activity
Public artwork
Recreation activity
Relocation of a building
Related definitions
Outdoor advertisement
Parking area
Terrace
Reliant definitions
means a single residential building:
a. that contains three or more residential units;
b. where the residential units are aligned horizontally side by side;
and
c. where each residential unit has its own entrance and habitable
rooms on the ground floor.
Residential unit
Related definitions
Apartment
Duplex
Standalone house
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Terrace - (M.E.D.)
Reliant definitions
means a single residential building:
a. that contains three or more residential units;
b. where the residential units are aligned horizontally side by
side; and
c. where each residential unit has its own entrance and
habitable rooms on the ground floor.
Residential unit -
(M.E.D.)
Related definitions
Apartment - (M.E.D.)
Duplex - (M.E.D.)
Standalone house -
(M.E.D.)
Tertiary education and research activity
Reliant definitions
means the use of land and/or buildings used for:
a. the provision of teaching or training and/or related research;
b. commercial research and laboratories; and
c. ancillary administrative, cultural, communal, accommodation,
retailing, and recreation and entertainment facilities.
Building
Entertainment facility
Recreation facility
Retailing
Theatre
Related definitions
means a place where live performances are staged and may include a
place used for the projection of moving pictures.
Entertainment activity
Entertainment facility
Trade and industry training facility
Reliant definitions
means land and/or buildings used for occupational training in the skills
of engineering, building, aviation, manufacturing and other industrial
activities and includes administrative, cultural and recreation
activities ancillary to the activity.
Building
Industrial activity
Related definitions
Education activity
Place of assembly
Sensitive activities
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Trade supplier
Reliant definitions
means a business engaged in sales to businesses and institutional
customers (and may also include sales to the general public), and
consists only of suppliers of goods in one or more of the following
categories:
a. automotive and/or marine suppliers;
b. building suppliers;
c. catering equipment suppliers;
d. farming and agricultural suppliers;
e. garden and patio suppliers;
f. hire services (except hire or loan of books, video, DVD and other
similar home entertainment items);
g. industrial clothing and safety equipment suppliers;
h. office furniture, equipment and systems suppliers.
Automotive and/or
marine supplier
Building supplier
Farming and agricultural
supplier
Garden and patio
supplier
Office furniture,
equipment and systems
suppliers
Related definitions
Retail activity
Transmission line
a) means the facilities and structures used for, or associated
with, the overhead or underground transmission of electricity
in the national grid; and
(b) includes transmission line support structures,
telecommunication cables, and telecommunication devices to
which paragraph (a) applies; but
(c) does not include an electricity substation.
Transport system
means all infrastructure, services, mechanisms and institutions that
contribute to providing for transport.
Travel demand management
means using a range of methods to change travel behaviour (how,
when and where people travel).
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Travel plan
Reliant definitions
means a plan which sets out how travel demand is to be managed for
a site or activity to:
a. maximise the efficient use of transport systems; and
b. to promote the use of more sustainable transport modes such as
active transport, public transport and carpooling as alternatives
to sole occupancy private cars.
Active transport
Site
Transport system
Tūrangawaewae
means place of belonging.
U
Urban activities
Reliant definitions
means activities of a size, function, intensity or character typical of
those in urban areas and includes:
a. residential units at a density equivalent to more than one
residential unit per 4 ha of site area;
b. industrial and commercial activities, except rural activities ;
c. sports fields and recreation facilities that service the urban
population (but excluding activities that require a rural location);
and
d. any other land use that is to be located within the existing urban
area or new Priority Areas for development identified in the
Canterbury Regional Policy Statement, Chapter 6, on Map A.
Commercial activities
Industrial activity
Recreation facility
Residential unit
Related definitions
Commercial services
Office
Retail activity
Urban roads
Reliant definitions
means all roads within the existing urban area as shown on Map A of
Chapter 6 of the Canterbury Regional Policy Statement, as well as
roads adjoining any residential and/or commercial zone in
Christchurch District (i.e. roads classified in the urban ‘place function
category’ in Appendix 7.12).
Adjoining
Christchurch District
Road
Related definitions
Rural roads
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Utility
Reliant definitions
means:
a. transformation, transmission, generation or distribution of
electricity provided by network utility operators or requiring
authorities including:
i. transmission lines and associated equipment; and
ii. private connections to such utilities.
b. telecommunication and radio communication facilities including:
i. transmitting/receiving devices such as aerials, dishes, wires,
insulators, castings, tunnels and associated equipment; and
ii. support structures such as towers, masts and poles and
accessory buildings, and private receiving dish antennae;
c. pipes for the distribution or transmission of petroleum or natural
or manufactured gas, and necessary incidental equipment
provided by network utility operators or requiring authorities, and
private connections to such utilities;
d. reticulated water for supply or irrigation, stormwater
management basins, swales or reticulated drainage, and
reticulated sewerage provided by network utility operators or
requiring authorities, including:
i. private stormwater facilities connecting to such utilities; and
ii. necessary incidental equipment including pumping stations
provided by network utility operators or requiring authorities
and private connections to such utilities;
e. lighthouses, meteorological facilities, navigational aids and
beacons including approach control services within the meaning
of the Civil Aviation Act 1990.
Accessory building
Network utility operator
Related definitions
Critical infrastructure
Network infrastructure
Strategic infrastructure
V
Vehicle access
Reliant definitions
(see Access) Access
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Vehicle control point
Reliant definitions
means a point on a vehicle access route controlled by a barrier (or
similar means) at which a vehicle is required to stop, or a point where
conflict with vehicles already on the site may arise (e.g. a point where
vehicles on the access route may need to stop to wait for a vehicle
reversing from a parking space on the site).
Site
Vehicle access
Vehicle crossing
Reliant definitions
means the formed and properly constructed vehicle entry/exit point
from the carriageway of any road up to and including that portion of the
road boundary of the site across which a vehicle entry or exit point is
permitted or consented and includes any culvert, bridge or kerbing.
Carriageway
Road
Road boundary
Site
Vehicle movement
Reliant definitions
means a single journey to or from a particular site by a person or
persons in a motor vehicle. Vehicle trip has the same meaning.
Site
Vehicle trip
Vehicle trip
Reliant definitions
(See Vehicle movement) Vehicle movement
Veterinary care facility
Reliant definitions
means land and/or buildings used for the provision of specialist care
and/or surgery for animals, under the supervision of a qualified
veterinarian.
Building
Related definitions
Commercial activities
Commercial services
Health care facility
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Visibility splay
Reliant definitions
means an area to be kept clear from obstruction to allow good visibility
of other road users.
Road
W
Wāhi taonga
means places and things that are treasured and valued.
Wāhi tapu
means places and things that are sacred.
Waipuna
Related definitions
means freshwater spring. Wetland
Wairuatanga
Related definitions
means to maintain and preserve the essence of manawhenua Ngāi
Tahu/manawhenua
Warehousing and distribution activities
means the storage and sorting of materials, goods or products pending
distribution.
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Waste management area
Reliant definitions
means the area identified on a site for the storage of rubbish and
recycling for collection.
Site
Related definitions
Outdoor living space
Outdoor storage space
Water body
[has the same meaning as in s 2 of the Resource Management Act
1991]
means fresh water or geothermal water in a river, lake, stream, pond,
wetland, or aquifer, or any part thereof, that is not located within the
coastal marine area.
WELS
means the Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme standards
developed by the Ministry for the Environment (as at the date of
public notification of this Plan).
Wetland
[has the same meaning as in S2 of the Resource Management Act
1991]
includes permanently or intermittently wet areas, shallow water, and
land water margins that support a natural ecosystem of plants and
animals that are adapted to wet conditions.
Whanaungatanga
means to encourage community participation and pride through
building and emphasising community identity
Window
Reliant definitions
means a glazed section in any exterior wall of a building where the sill
is less than 1.6m vertically from the floor.
Building
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Window control
Related definitions
means the device connected to the window that is used to latch and
unlatch windows for opening and closing.
Installed
Work bay
Reliant definitions
means anthe area of not more than 50m2within a service station or
motor-servicing facility used for the repair and/or maintenance of
motor vehicles, including access.
Access
Motor-servicing facility
Service station
Related definitions
Service station
X
Y
Yard-based supplier
Reliant definitions
means any retail activity the use of any land and/or building for
selling or hiring products for construction or external use (which, for
the avoidance of doubt, includes activities such as sale of vehicles and
garden supplies), where more than 50% of the area devoted to sales
or display is located in covered or uncovered external yard or forecourt
space as distinct from within a secured and weatherproofed building.
For the purpose of this definition, areas of a site providing rear
access and all other areas devoted to customer, staff and service
vehicle access and parking (including parking driveways) are not
to be included in the extent of yard area devoted to sales or
display. Drive-in or drive-through covered areas devoted to storage
and display of construction materials (including covered vehicle lanes)
will be deemed yard space area for the purpose of this definition.
Access
Building
Site
Vehicle access
Related definitions
Automotive and/or
marine supplier
Building supplier
Garden and patio
supplier
Trade supplier
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Yard based supplier parking
means, for the purpose of calculating parking and loading
requirements for yard based suppliers, areas of a site providing
rear access and all other areas devoted to customer, staff and
service vehicle access and parking (including parking driveways)
are excluded from the extent of yard area devoted to sales or
display.
Z
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