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Resource management
Horizons develops policies to guide the way we manage our Region’s environmental resources – land, air, water, and coast.
These policies set out the things that need to be done to achieve the environmental outcomes we want as a Region. We use both regulatory and non-regulatory methods to meet the objectives in our policies - regulatory management requires users of environmental resources to apply for resource consent; non-regulatory management involves providing advice, information, education, and funding assistance.
We also monitor the effectiveness of these methods and carry out research into existing and emerging environmental issues.
The resource management process looks like this…
Our One Plan contains legally binding rules that determine how the Region’s environmental issues can be used; in particular it guides decisions on resource consent applications.
The One Plan replaces the seven environmental plans we had previously into one easy-to-use document. We have worked closely with stakeholders and the public over the last two years to put together the One Plan and are currently working through the legal process required to get it finalised and operative. Find out more about the One Plan.
Environmental grants
We offer environmental grants to individuals and groups, including schools, for environmental initiatives including planting and fencing wetlands and areas of bush.
We have funding available specifically to assist iwi with environmental initiatives including establishing plant nurseries and fencing/planting wetland and bush areas on iwi land. Funding is also available to landowners with property outside of scheme areas who wish to carry out erosion protection works.
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