Further Submission - PMEP Variation 2: Ecologically Significant Marine Sites

Overview

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On 9 March 2023, the Marlborough District Council notified Variation 2: Ecologically Significant Marine Sites (ESMS) to the Proposed Marlborough Environment Plan.

The purpose of the variation is to add new ESMS, adjust the spatial boundaries of some existing sites within the Marlborough Sounds as well as amending category status and buffers where appropriate.  The variation is necessitated by the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) requirement that Council recognise and provide for the protection of areas of significant indigenous vegetation and significant habitats of indigenous fauna as a matter of national importance (Section 6 (c)).  The proposed additions and amendments to ESMS are as identified through Council’s significant marine site survey and monitoring programme.

Go to the Variation 2: Ecologically Significant Marine Sites webpage

Reports and other related information are available on the Variation 2: Ecologically Significant Marine Sites hearing portal.

Go to the Variation 2: Ecologically Significant Marine Sites hearing portal

Go to a Smart Map showing current and proposed Ecologically Significant Marine Sites

The period for making submissions on the variation closed on 11 April 2023 with the Council receiving 63 submissions.

Go to a summary of the decisions requested and the full submissions

The following persons may make a further submission but only in support of or in opposition to any of the submissions already received:

• Any person representing a relevant aspect of the public interest; and
• Any person that has an interest in the plan greater than the interest that the general public has.

Within 5 working days of lodging a further submission with the Council, you must serve a copy on the person who made the submission to which your further submission relates.  The contact address for submitters is available below:

Variation 2 Submitter Contact Details(PDF,4.6MB)

Once the closing date for lodging further submissions has passed, the Council will hold a hearing to consider the submissions and further submissions that have been lodged and will then issue a decision(s) on the proposed variations.  Anyone who has made a submission or further submission, and who has indicated that they wish to be heard, will have the right to attend the hearings and to present their submission or further submission.  Those people will be notified of the hearing dates in due course.

Use the link below to start your submission.

Further submissions close on Friday, 21 July 2023