27Development in Zone 7 (f) Environmental Protection (Coastal Lands)

27 Development in Zone 7 (f) Environmental Protection (Coastal Lands)

27 Development in Zone 7 (f) Environmental Protection (Coastal Lands)

(1) Objectives

• to protect land that may be susceptible to coastal erosion processes from inappropriate development.

(2) In deciding whether to grant consent to development in Zone 7 (f), the consent authority must consider—

(a) the provisions of any plan of management adopted by the Council under the Local Government Act 1993 that is applicable to the land, and

(b) the impact of the development on the behaviour of the sea, or an arm of the sea, or any bay, inlet, lagoon, lake, body of water, river, stream or watercourse, and

(c) the impact of the development on any beach or dune or the bed, bank, shoreline, foreshore, margin or flood plain of the sea or any bay, inlet, lagoon, lake, body of water, river, stream or watercourse, and

(d) the impact of the development on the landscape or scenic quality of the locality, and

(e) the impact of the development on any native vegetation, and

(f) the potential impacts of climate change including sea level rise.

(3), (4) (Repealed)

cl 27: Am 26.9.2003; 2008 (571), Sch 3.175 [4]–[6].