What's happened so far?

Draft Regional Policy Statement, 2008

Greater Wellington released the draft Regional Policy Statement in March 2008. The aim of this non-statutory document was to open discussion with all interested parties and receive feedback.

A total of 107 groups, organisations and individuals responded to the draft Regional Policy Statement during the submission period (10 March and 16 May 2008). Between them they contributed close to 1400 submission points on the draft. Key themes to emerge from submissions are noted within Newsletter No 5.

These submission helped Greater Wellington to review and revise content for the proposed Regional Policy Statement. For further information about key changes see Newsletter No 6.

A copy of the Summary of Submission and staff responses are available for public inspection at the Environment help desk, Level 3, Regional Council Centre, 142 Wakefield St or download a copy here Summary of Submissions and Responses(2.15mb).

A copy of the draft Regional Policy Statement (5.21mb) can be downloaded here.

Topic reports June 2007

In June 2007, Greater Wellington released a set of topic reports with draft objectives, policies and methods. These reports covered regional form, biodiversity, landscape and heritage, natural hazards, air quality, iwi resource management, energy, freshwater, the coastal environment, land waste and minerals. We received a number of comments which helped us prepare the draft Regional Policy Statement, 2008.

If you would like copies of the June topic reports please call us on 04 802 0337 or email rps@gw.govt.nz.

Our region - their future

The secondstage of the review was the discussion document Our region - their future, which was released in May 2006.

Our region - their future reported on the success of the Policy Statement changes to the issues, and posed questions about whether things need to be managed differently.

Measuring up, 2005

Greater Wellington began the regional policy statement review process with its second State of the Environment Report Measuring up 2005 published in December 2005.

Measuring up 2005 reported on the state of the environment, what was being done to achieve the RPS objectives, and how well the objectives in the RPS had been achieved. The state of the environment report is accompanied by background and/or technical reports.

Find out moreabout Measuring up, 2005

Regional Policy Statement, 1995

If you would like to read the operative regional policy statement, click on the following link:

Regional Policy Statement for the Wellington region, 1995 (PDF, 1.6 MB)