District Plan Hauraki Gulf Islands Section - Operative 1996

This part of the District Plan examines and outlines the resource management issues and associated strategies for the Inner and Outer Islands of the Hauraki Gulf.

Part 3 outlines the overall issues, strategies, outcomes and means for the Hauraki Gulf Islands. The resource management outcomes established in this part are consistent with those outcomes.

The Outer Islands as an entity, are significantly different from the Inner Islands, particularly in the extent of reserves and protected land; population size; and the relatively slow rate of development.

There are some situations where the resource management strategy for the Inner and Outer Islands differ in a localised sense and, as a consequence, different criteria are used to assess land use activities. In each case however the final outcome must be the same and must be consistent with the overall strategy for the Hauraki Gulf Islands.