DRAFT GENERAL RESERVE POLICIES FOR WAIMATE DISTRICT – 2019 1 Contents Document status............................................................................................................................... 5 Process timeline ............................................................................................................................... 5 1.0 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Background ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Statutory requirements .................................................................................................................... 6 Iwi obligations ................................................................................................................................... 6 Delegations ....................................................................................................................................... 6 2.0 Scope of plan ................................................................................................................................. 7 Relationship with other reserve management plans ................................................................... 7 Relationship between this Plan and other documents ............................................................... 8 3.0 Reserve goals and outcomes .................................................................................................... 10 Goal .................................................................................................................................................. 10 General outcomes .......................................................................................................................... 10 4.0 Reserve management framework ............................................................................................. 11 Reserves Act management principles ........................................................................................ 11 Management categories for Waimate reserves ......................................................................... 11 Maps 1-11: Management categories for Waimate’s parks and reserves .......................... 13 Activities requiring approval under the Reserves Act ............................................................... 25 Waimate reserves activity use categories .................................................................................. 25 5.0 General reserve policies ............................................................................................................. 27 Development ................................................................................................................................... 27 Buildings and other structures .................................................................................................. 27 Car parking and access ............................................................................................................. 28 Lighting......................................................................................................................................... 28 Park furniture and amenities ..................................................................................................... 29 Play spaces and facilities .......................................................................................................... 29 Public art ...................................................................................................................................... 30 Signage ........................................................................................................................................ 30 Walkways and tracks ................................................................................................................. 31 Promotion .................................................................................................................................... 32 Use ................................................................................................................................................... 32 Rentals and charges .................................................................................................................. 32 Sports ground booking and allocation ..................................................................................... 33 Research ..................................................................................................................................... 33 Commemorative tree planting .................................................................................................. 34 2 Memorials .................................................................................................................................... 34 Gifts, bequests and commemorative plaques ........................................................................ 35 Cemetery burials ........................................................................................................................ 35 Cemetery Disinterment (humans) ............................................................................................ 36 Ashes – burial/spreading ........................................................................................................... 36 Cemetery headstones and monuments .................................................................................. 37 Occupation ...................................................................................................................................... 37 Leases, licences, easements (above and below ground) .................................................... 37 Abandoned buildings ................................................................................................................. 38 Network utilities on reserves ..................................................................................................... 38 Neighbours ...................................................................................................................................... 39 Encroachments ........................................................................................................................... 39 Fencing ........................................................................................................................................ 40 Management ................................................................................................................................... 41 Naming of reserves .................................................................................................................... 41 Land acquisition, exchange, disposal and gazettal............................................................... 41 Public health ................................................................................................................................ 42 Sustainable land management ................................................................................................. 42 Hazardous substance use ........................................................................................................ 42 Plant and animal pest control ................................................................................................... 43 Natural hazards .......................................................................................................................... 44 Climate change ........................................................................................................................... 44 Trees ............................................................................................................................................ 45 Looking after reserve values ........................................................................................................ 46 Biodiversity .................................................................................................................................. 46 Culture and heritage .................................................................................................................. 46 Tangata Whenua ........................................................................................................................ 47 Partnering with the community ..................................................................................................... 48 6.0 Plan monitoring, review and improvements ............................................................................ 49 7.0 Improvement plan ........................................................................................................................ 50 8.0 Appendices ................................................................................................................................... 51 Appendix 1: Schedule of all Reserves administered by Waimate District Council .............. 52 Appendix 2: Schedule of leases and licenses for Waimate reserves .................................... 55 Appendix 3: Reserve management categories for Waimate ................................................... 58 Appendix 4: Waimate reserves service delivery expectations ................................................ 62 Appendix 5: Guidance for Discretionary