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Formal submissions on the proposed Upper Clutha Landscape Schedules Variation are now open and can be made at www.qldc.govt.nz/upper-clutha-schedules

Our landscapes are highly valued by those who live in, work in, and visit the Queenstown Lakes District. In order to protect them and their values, Queenstown Lakes District Council’s (QLDC) District Plan includes provisions relating to these landscapes, including landscape schedules.

What are Landscape Schedules?

Landscape schedules are an example, as they outline the values and capacity of identified landscapes to provide clarity on what values need to be protected, maintained or enhanced. They are intended to make it easier to understand how a proposal for development might affect the identified values of a landscape. Landscape schedules do not introduce or change any rules in the District Plan but are considered when assessing relevant proposals.

The Landscape schedules are accompanied by maps that show the boundaries of the landscape areas. These maps are then incorporated by reference into the Proposed District Plan.

What’s the latest?

We’re taking formal submissions on the proposed Upper Clutha Landscape Schedules Variation, which can be made at www.qldc.govt.nz/upper-clutha-schedules.

Formal submissions close on Friday 13 December 2024.

Please note: On Friday 21 June 2024, we notified the Council’s decisions on the Priority Area Landscape Schedules Variation, which introduced landscape schedules for 29 ‘priority areas’ across the District.

What’s next?

Once submissions close, we’ll take further submissions and then a Hearing will be held for the Variation. If you are a submitter or further submitter on the Variation, you will have an opportunity to speak to your submission at the Hearing. After that, the Independent Hearing Panel will make a recommendation that will then be considered by Council.

Have any questions?

If you have any questions, please contact pdpenquiries@qldc.govt.nz or call (03) 443 0024 to speak with a Policy Planner.

Formal submissions on the proposed Upper Clutha Landscape Schedules Variation are now open and can be made at www.qldc.govt.nz/upper-clutha-schedules

Our landscapes are highly valued by those who live in, work in, and visit the Queenstown Lakes District. In order to protect them and their values, Queenstown Lakes District Council’s (QLDC) District Plan includes provisions relating to these landscapes, including landscape schedules.

What are Landscape Schedules?

Landscape schedules are an example, as they outline the values and capacity of identified landscapes to provide clarity on what values need to be protected, maintained or enhanced. They are intended to make it easier to understand how a proposal for development might affect the identified values of a landscape. Landscape schedules do not introduce or change any rules in the District Plan but are considered when assessing relevant proposals.

The Landscape schedules are accompanied by maps that show the boundaries of the landscape areas. These maps are then incorporated by reference into the Proposed District Plan.

What’s the latest?

We’re taking formal submissions on the proposed Upper Clutha Landscape Schedules Variation, which can be made at www.qldc.govt.nz/upper-clutha-schedules.

Formal submissions close on Friday 13 December 2024.

Please note: On Friday 21 June 2024, we notified the Council’s decisions on the Priority Area Landscape Schedules Variation, which introduced landscape schedules for 29 ‘priority areas’ across the District.

What’s next?

Once submissions close, we’ll take further submissions and then a Hearing will be held for the Variation. If you are a submitter or further submitter on the Variation, you will have an opportunity to speak to your submission at the Hearing. After that, the Independent Hearing Panel will make a recommendation that will then be considered by Council.

Have any questions?

If you have any questions, please contact pdpenquiries@qldc.govt.nz or call (03) 443 0024 to speak with a Policy Planner.

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  • Share Hi could you please define a Rural character landscape and let me know how that definition will change what can or cant happen on it compared with rural general at the present. Cheers on Facebook Share Hi could you please define a Rural character landscape and let me know how that definition will change what can or cant happen on it compared with rural general at the present. Cheers on Twitter Share Hi could you please define a Rural character landscape and let me know how that definition will change what can or cant happen on it compared with rural general at the present. Cheers on Linkedin Email Hi could you please define a Rural character landscape and let me know how that definition will change what can or cant happen on it compared with rural general at the present. Cheers link

    Hi could you please define a Rural character landscape and let me know how that definition will change what can or cant happen on it compared with rural general at the present. Cheers

    ffphill asked over 2 years ago

    A Rural Character Landscape (RCL) is a landscape classification, just like Outstanding Natural Landscape (ONL) or Outstanding Natural Feature (ONF). RCL applies to the Rural zone in the PDP. 

    Within the Rural zone, classification of the district's landscapes was undertaken as part of Stage 1 of the Proposed District Plan and within policies contained in Chapter 3 Strategic Direction and Chapter 6 Landscapes and Rural Character. The areas that are not classified as ONL or ONF are classified as RCL. Chapter 3 and 6 also set out the policy framework for RCL and require that any subdivision, use or development maintains landscape character, and that visual amenity is maintained or enhanced. 

    The specific rules and standards relating to RCL are set out in Chapter 21 Rural of the PDP, along with the District Wide chapters. These set out what activities may be permitted or require resource consent within the Rural zone where the landscape has been classified as an RCL. 

    This project is not looking to change the policies or rules relating to RCL, instead it will add the landscape schedules to better consider what aspects or landscape character, or visual amenity are important within each of the priority areas. 

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