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IN THIS ISSUE: Coastline Controversy: Subdivision at Purau Bay, Banks Peninsula. by Emma Thomas Lincoln Planning Education and the Role of Theory in the New Millennium: A New Role for Habitat Theory? by Roy Montgomery Planning Community Commodified: The Pres- tons Road Residential Subdivision by Peter Chamberlain Review Volume 2, Issue 2 August 2010 ISSN 1175-0987 Lincoln Planning Review is prepared by Lincoln University students with staff assistance and the views expressed in this publication are those of the individual writers. While Lincoln University may or may not agree with the views expressed, the University is proud to support the work being done by LPR to raise, discuss and debate important planning issues. Lincoln Planning Review Volume 2, Issue 2 August 2010 Table of Contents Lincoln Planning Review Editorial .............................................................................................Hamish G. Rennie 3 ISSN 1175-0987 Editorial ....................................................................... Nick Williams and Kelly Fisher 3 Lincoln Planning Review is the journal of the Lincoln University Planning Association (LUPA) and is an online publication produced Peer Reviewed Articles twice each year and primarily edited by students. It is also a Land Coastline Controversy: Subdivision at Purau Bay, Banks Peninsula ............................ Environment and People Research Centre outreach publication and ................................................................................................................. Emma Thomas 4 operates through the Environ- mental Management and Planning Planning Education and the Role of Theory in the New Millennium: A New Role for Research Theme. Habitat Theory? .................................................................................. Roy Montgomery 8 The ambitious vision is “to be the pre-eminent source of information on planning issues, research and Articles education in and affecting the Cen- tral and upper South Island”. Community Commodified: The Prestons Road Residential Subdivision .................... Contact LPR: ...........................................................................................................Peter Chamberlain 14 Editor Perspectives on the Canterbury Water Management Strategy ...................................... LPR ..................................................................Adrienne Lomax, Ali Memon, Brett Painter 17 c/o NRE Building PO Box 84 Lincoln University The ECan Act: Understanding the New Provisions for Planners .................................. Lincoln 7647 ............................................................................................................Hamish G. Rennie 20 Canterbury New Zealand Climate Change for Planners ......................................................................Doug Craig 22 www.leap.ac.nz Email: [email protected] Opinion Pieces Please put ‘LPR’ in the The ECan Act: A Staggering use of Legislative Power ...............................Ann Brower 26 subject line ©LEaP, Lincoln University, Outreach New Zealand 2010. This information may be copied or Lincoln High School Enviro-Council .............Tom Ferguson and Hayato Clearwater 27 reproduced electronically and dis- tributed to others without restric- tion, provided LEaP, Lincoln University is acknowledged as the source of information. Under no Lincoln University News circumstances may a charge be made for this information without the express permission of LEaP, The Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Summer Research Project................Kelly Fisher 28 Lincoln University, New Zealand. Subscribe to LPR Collaborative Environmental Governance Down Under, in Theory and in Practice .. ........................................................... Ann Brower, Shaun Coffey and Bailey Peryman 30 If you would like to be notified when a new issue of LPR is avail- Development of a Conceptual Framework for Sustainability Indicators Used in able please email LPR@lincoln. ac.nz with ‘subscribe’ in the subject Structure Planning ........................................................................................................... line. .........Hannah Ayres, Pene Burns, Tim Church, Shannon Davis and Simon Swaffield 31 Front cover: Chris Booth sculpture and native McCaskill garden Photo: Sacha Murray Lincoln Planning Review 1 Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2010 Lincoln University Planning-Relevant Theses and Dissertations in 2009 .................... EDITORIAL BOARD .............................................................compiled by Kevyn Miller and Hamish Rennie 32 Lincoln Planning Review Where are they now?........................................................................................................ 34 Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2010 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Staff Profiles ...................................................................................................................... 34 Hamish Rennie Lincoln University Planning Association Update ................................ Bailey Peryman 35 EDITORIAL TEAM: Awards.............................................................................................................................. 35 Convenor: Bailey Peryman Other Matters Content: Nick Williams –operational editor CWMS and Land and Water Forum Update ..........................................Nick Williams 36 Kelly Fisher – operational editor Mark Burgess - cartographer David Birch Planning Pains? Don’t Panic! .......................................................................................... 38 Michelle Ruske Jemma Hardwick-Smith 2010 International Planning Conference: Christchurch ...........................Kim Seaton 39 Sarah Edwards Alyce Melrose YPConnect10 - 19th and 20th April 2010 ............................................Michelle Ruske 40 Sacha Murray Peter Chamberlain ECO Conference 2010 - Planning for the Future ................................. Shane Orchard 41 Bailey Peryman Adrienne Lomax The Australia and New Zealand Planning Schools Association (ANZAPS) ................ Suzanne Blyth Felicity Boyd ............................................................................................................. Stephen Hamnett 42 Sarah Hunt Suzanne Vallance ANZAPS 2010 – A Climate for Change ................................................... Wendy Steele 43 Production: Upcoming Events ............................................................................................................. 44 Joby Rand – operational editor Shun Koizumi Primary Supporters .......................................................................................................... 44 Ike Kleynbos Post production: Mark Burgess - operational editor PERMANENT EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Ali Memon Clare Sargeant Hirini Matunga Disclaimer: Due to the temporary nature of website locations, any hyperlinks can not be guaranteed to work beyond the release date of each issue. Lincoln Planning Review 2 Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2010 Lincoln Planning Review process enable students to learn the The younger generation pulls ropes of organisation and procedure in a real world situation. through... For this, all of us are grateful to have the opportunity. A very promising area of growth the Review has seen since At the joint conference of the Planning Institute of Aus- its inception in 2008 is the inclusion of double blind peer tralia/New Zealand Planning Institute in Christchurch reviewed material. As you well know the peer review process 700 CDs containing copies of the first three issues of the ensures credibility while it’s also helping to raise the standard Lincoln Planning Review (the first two named as Lincoln of featured articles. For this issue we are pleased to bring to University Planning Review) were distributed in the par- you two peer reviewed articles. We trust you will enjoy read- ticipants’ kitbags. This marked a new success for collabo- ing both Roy Montgomery’s article, Planning education and ration between Lincoln University, the NZPI and the Lin- the role of theory in the new millennium: a new role for habitat coln University Planning Association. This achievement theory, and Emma Thomas’s, Coastline Controversy; Subdivi- was accompanied by a slightly shortened version of Felic- sion at Purau Bay, Banks Peninsula. Following last issue’s ity Boyd’s LPR article on small owner-operated brothels initial peer reviewed article, Robert Makgill’s, A New Start for appearing in the March 2010 issue of Planning Quarterly. Fresh Water: Allocation and Property Rights, we received a sig- A comment on the LPR experience written by members of nificant amount of positive feedback. Thank you to all of those our editorial board was also published in the same issue of of who have been involved, both authors and reviewers, in the PQ, and we have received strong positive comment from peer review process. lawyers on Robert Makgill’s timely peer-reviewed article on water rights and that other articles are being drawn on A topic on the minds of many recently has been the long run- by policy analysts in central and local government. ning issue of water rights and governance in Canterbury, and the recent enactment of the “ECan Act”, which among other it continues to be my pleasure to be associated with the things, replaced elected Regional Councillors with govern- keen bunch of students who do all the work on the LPR as ment appointed commissioners. Only time will tell how an extra-mural, non-funded, non-graded, often frustrat-