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Hauraki Gulf Islands  review

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Issues and options papers

Monitoring

Issue
Monitoring is an essential component in determining the effectiveness and suitability of the Council's policies and plans.

Aside from being a statutory requirement under s35 of the Resource Management Act, district plan monitoring is also good business practice as it enables Council's to gain an overview on how effective the district plan is in achieving stated environmental outcomes and where improvements can be made.

Monitoring the plan's provisions will ensure that they remain up to date and respond to the changing environment.

The approach that has been endorsed by the Council is as follows:

Step 1 Identifying the components of the RMA issue.
What are the polices and rules used to manage issues such as coastal protections areas etc.

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Step 2 Indicator development
 A barometer by which to measure whether or not the plan is achieving stated outcomes. They must be easy to measure and relate back to the environmental outcome.

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Step 3 Indicator Prioritisation
 Helps determine what indicators are appropriate and therefore the order in which information should be collected

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Step 4 Data collection.

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Step 5: Recording data

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Step 6: Analysing Data.
 Are the objectives, polices and rules of the plan being met. Is the plan still suitable or have the resource management issues of the city changed.

You may have a better or alternative approach. If so, we would like to hear from you.

Note:

This issue paper should be read in association with all issue papers.