Instead of going into Council Head Office at 20 Thames Street for enquiries and Council services, you can pop into Ōamaru Library at 62 Thames Street during the week or on a Saturday morning.
Over the last two weeks we have noticed and been made aware of some issues with the maps and ePlan tool that resulted in property reports and various layers not displaying. This has now been rectified and we encourage you to recheck the maps and lodge a submission.Council recently agreed to extend the submission period by a week, from 9 May to 16 May 2025.
A designation is a ‘spot zoning’ over a site, area or route that authorises the requiring authority’s work and activity without the need to comply with the zone rules or obtain a resource consent and protects land for future public works. A requiring authority includes Ministers of the Crown, local authorities and network utility operators approved as requiring authorities under the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA). Requiring authorities can only make a designation where they are financially responsible for the project, work, or operation on the designated land. Conditions of the designation set parameters for which the activity can occur in accordance with the purpose of that designation.
Many of the designations in the Operative District Plan are expected to be rolled over into the Proposed District Plan. Most of these works have already been given effect to. It is likely that there will be new designations sought by requiring authorities.