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No escaping work on significant natural areas, West Coast councils warned

It also postponed any further work on SNAs until the Government finalises its national policy statement on indigenous biodiversity, which will set the SNA rules in concrete. But the planning team charged with writing the new district plan says there is no guarantee the national policy statement will be out before the new draft plan is due to go out for public consultation. “It is absolutely critical to have some rules in there . it would be unfair to landholders and the community if there is no indication of the provisions we will have,” principal planner Lois Easton said. It was not known how different the final version of the national policy statement might be from the draft, but Government officials had ruled out any “carve out” or exceptions for the West Coast.

SNAs issue must be tackled head on, councils, iwi told

Photo: 123RF Members of the Te Tai o Poutini plan committee agonised over the issue for more than an hour at their meeting on Monday, trying to find ways to avoid slapping the significant natural area label on private land. A majority of the committee sees the process as an attack on private property rights. Last month the committee refused, by a narrow majority, to accept a desktop study it had commissioned, mapping SNAs across the region. It also postponed any further work on SNAs until the government finalises its national policy statement on indigenous biodiversity which will set the SNA rules in concrete.

Prime Minister Jacinda Adern saddened by devastating Westport flood damage

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Dorothy Burrow’s flood-damaged Westport home. Ardern met affected property owners George and Dorothy Burrows, whose Gladstone St home was inundated by floodwaters for the second time in three years. Dorothy Burrows cried as she hugged Ardern and showed her around her flood-damaged home. The water reached the tops of her kitchen bench only three years after Cyclone Fehi caused widespread damage. The Buller River reached its highest ever recorded level at 12.8m on July 17. The previous record was 11.8 set in 1970. Ardern said she wanted to see for herself what the immediate and longer term recovery needs were.

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