To ensure integration with other hazard management activities in a region, the preparation of hazard provisions in a regional policy statement, in particular, should be linked with work being undertaken, and priorities established, as part of the CDEM Group Plan Quality Planningg 2013).
The case study analysis of a regional policy statement and district plan showed a very directive risk management framework in the regional policy statement, and a district plan that appeared to implement that framework.
Land use plans cover a subset of the area covered by a regional policy statement.
In addition, one regional policy statement and one district plan needed to be selected from the same region.
(2) Land use plans focus on local-level planning and are subservient to the relevant regional policy statement.
Testing was undertaken by three test coders, all coding the same four plans (one regional policy statement, one CDEM plan, two land use plans).
A regional policy statement that provides clear direction to regional and land use plans is demonstrating best practice The RMA sets up overlapping functions for the management of natural hazards between regional and district councils.
It was decided to select one proposed regional policy statement and two proposed district plans, to see if these proposed plans contained examples of best practice not seen in the operative plans.
The planning hierarchy referred to here is the requirement in section 75(3) of the RMA, which states that a district plan must give effect to a regional policy statement.
However, it was not possible to determine whether the rules in the district plan would manage risk in accordance with the levels set in the regional policy statement (for example, acceptable or tolerable).
A number of coded plans (one regional policy statement, one CDEM plan, two land use plans) were randomly recoded by a second coder, at various times throughout the coding process.
