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Our District Plan is the blueprint for how the Manawatū District can be developed and changed over time. It is an ever-evolving document, which needs updating to ensure it meets the priorities and anticipated future needs of the district.
We call this project the District Plan Review. Plan changes will have different focuses – for example implementing national direction, responding to local issues, or maybe just a review because we’ve had feedback from the community that things might need to be adjusted.
We anticipate announcing to notify two plan changes mid 2025. To stay informed, be sure to subscribe (+Follow) the District Plan Review page for the latest updates and notifications.
Find out more about the draft changes by clicking on the links below or find out more about previous plan changes here.
The National Planning Standards (NPStd) requires District Plans to follow a standardised format - this is known as a 'mandatory' direction. This essentially means that our District Plan has to be updated to look and function in the same way as all other district plans in the country.
The review of the Manawatū District Plan Residential Zone is known as Plan Change B: General Residential.
Feedback on the draft plan change closes 4pm, Friday 6 December 2024.
Plan Change E proposes to change the zone boundaries and provisions associated with the Town Centre Zone and surrounding Mixed Use Zone.
Feedback closes 4pm Friday 6 December 2024.
Our Manawatū Growth Strategy maps out how and when the district can grow over the short, medium and long term. We'd value community input on what this growth could look like.
Rural and Flood Channel Review involves updating how the District Plan plans for and enables development in our rural areas.
The National Planning Standards (NPS) contain a number of mandatory requirements for Council to implement.
