Plans
The Regional Planning activity provides us with planning and policy advice and sets up our strategic direction.
These include planning documents under Resource Management Act 1991, like the Regional Natural Resources Plan and under the Biosecurity Act 1993, the Local Government Act 2002, and various action plans. Note, the Government has replaced the RMA with the Natural Environment Act and Planning Act, and the new system will be introduced over several years. While we transition to the new planning system, existing resource consent processes, regional plans and consent conditions remain in place.
We promote integrated regional resource management by providing input on district consents applications, district plans and other policy from Central and local government. We manage growth in the western Bay of Plenty through the Regional Policy Statement and Smartgrowth and participate in the Upper North Island Strategic Alliance.
We are working with tāngata whenua, the community and key stakeholders in catchments to maintain and improve water quality and manage water quantity through a series of changes to the Regional Natural Resources Plan.
The purpose of a regional plan is to set out how resources should be managed, including rules and regulations for their use.
View Bay of Plenty Regional Council's various action plans for lakes, road safety, air quality and more.
The Long Term Plan sets our direction as a council and establishes the work we will deliver to the community over the next 10 years and how that will be funded.
Managing our physical assets, their performance and maintenance expenditures, and the associated risk over their lifecycles.
We are responsible for responding to oil spills in the coastal marine area, which extends 12 nautical miles out to sea from the Bay of Plenty coastline.