Public consultation on our 2025-34 Long Term Plan is open now until 4 March 2025. Find out what it's all about and how to get involved.
To find out what is allowed to happen on a piece of land refer to the Draft District Plan Maps on our website, locate the property and identify the zone it is located in.
As well as the zones, you should also check for any ‘overlays’. An overlay identifies distinctive values, risks (such as a floodplain) or other factors that may require management in a different way to the underlying zone. Each zone and overlay has its own chapter containing the objectives, policies and rules.
Objective: the goal or outcome – what we want to achieve through our District Plan
Policy: sets out and indicates how we will achieve our goal or outcomes
Rule: identifies whether a consent is required and sets the standards that need to be complied with for an activity e.g. the hours you can operate your business or the height you can build your house
If you need any assistance using the Draft District Plan mapping, we have a dedicated space in Ōamaru on Steward Street (down the side of the Waitaki Museum – look for the signs). This drop-in space will have people on hand to help you 2 days a week from 10am-4.30pm. Check out the calendar on our website for dates.
Alternatively, we will have paper copies of the Draft District Plan maps available in several locations, including Council HQ, Ōamaru Library, Palmerston Service Centre and in several locations up the Waitaki Valley including the Kurow Museum and Information Centre and the Community Library in Omarama.
You can use the link on the District Plan Mapping page to go straight to our Have your say page to provide any feedback you might have on the draft District Plan mapping.