Executive Summary
This report summarises the evaluation of the provisions of the Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Regional Plan (the Plan) undertaken by the Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Board (the Board) as required by section 19(1) of the Resource Management (Waitaki Catchment) Amendment Act 2004 (the Waitaki Act). Section 19 of the Waitaki Act requires an evaluation be undertaken in accordance with the requirements of section 32(3) and (4) of the Resource Management Act 1991 (the RMA).
All the objectives, policies and rules of the Plan have been examined. Within this report, the examination of each objective is summarised. In contrast, for the policies and rules, the examination is summarised by grouping related policies and rules.
The Board has considered all the information available to it during the preparation of the Plan. This includes; the reports received by the Board relevant to the development of the Plan (listed at the rear of this report), information provided to it by the public through the Board's consultation process, all the submissions lodged on the draft Plan, and all the material presented and produced as part of the hearing process.
After undertaking the evaluation required by section 32(3) and (4) of the RMA, it is the Board's overall judgement that:
- the extent to which each of the five objectives is the most appropriate way to achieve the purpose of the RMA means it is appropriate to include each objective in the Plan
- having regard to effectiveness and efficiency; and taking into account the benefits and costs, and the risk of acting if there is uncertain or insufficient information; each policy and rule is the most appropriate to achieve the objectives of the Plan.
The Board considers that the evaluation undertaken by it, as summarised in this report, meets the requirements of section 19(1) of the Waitaki Act.
