Mo te iti, mo te rahi One Plan

About the One Plan

The One Plan is split into five parts:

Part 1 contains Introductory and General Provisions. It provides context and guidance on how the plan works, summarises applicable national direction instruments and provides definitions and abbreviations to assist interpretation.

Part 2 is the Regional Policy Statement section of the One Plan. It sets out the regionally significant resource management issues (identified through a process that drew on both community and technical information), and outlines the objectives, policies and methods that will be used to address these issues.

Part 3 is the Regional Plan section of the One Plan. It specifies the controls on natural and physical resource use (that is, objectives, policies and regional rules). These controls cover both permitted activities (which allow people to use and develop resources without the need for resource consents) and the application for and issuing of resource consents.

Part 4 provides direction for the Evaluation and Monitoring of the efficiency and effectiveness of the One Plan.

Part 5 contains the Plan’s Appendices.

You can also access documents incorporated by reference, Statutory Acknowledgements, Iwi management plans, and documents that shaped the One Plan.

Operative One Plan

Plan Amendment 6 (2026)

The One Plan was amended on 12 March 2026 to implement requirements from the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 (amended December 2025) and the National Planning Standards 2019. The correction of minor errors under Clause 20A of Schedule 1 to the Resource Management Act 1991 has also been undertaken as part of this Plan Amendment process.
 
To view the public notice of Plan Amendment 6, see below.

Proposed Plan Change 2 – Existing Intensive Farming Land Uses

Proposed Plan Change 2 is focused on the One Plan's provisions that manage nutrient loss from existing intensive farming land uses (dairy farming, commercial vegetable growing, cropping, and intensive sheep and beef) in target water management sub-zones. To find out more about the plan change, click here.

The focus of Proposed Plan Change 2 is to clarify and amend the nutrient management framework so it effectively works towards achieving the strategies for surface water quality set out in the One Plan. It will: update the cumulative nitrogen leaching maximums in Table 14.2 to reflect improvements in the nutrient modelling software tool Overseer; reinforce good management practices as part of intensive farming land use activities; and provide a workable pathway for landowners to apply for resource consent for intensive farming land use activities that cannot achieve Table 14.2 cumulative leaching maximums.

Find out more about completed and planned reviews, amendments and changes of the One Plan

Read the latest information relating to the Overseer tool