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There are various consultation opportunities in each phase of the District Plan Review:

• Phase 1 (Scoping): In this phase, consultation with statutory bodies, stakeholders and the public was undertaken. Feedback from this consultation helped us developing the Town Centre Study, Growth Management Strategy and the Discussion Documents in Phase 2.  - Phase 1 is now completed.

• Phase 2 (Discussion Documents): In this phase, the public were consulted about a number of discussion documents that set out the issues the District is facing and options to resolve them. - Phase 2 is now completed.

• Phase 3 (Draft District Plan): During the drafting of the new District Plan, targeted and public consultation on some topics are also taking place. Once drafting is completed, the Draft District Plan will be released for consideration by the community. - WE ARE HERE! The Draft District Plan was released in October 2020. Consultation on the Draft Plan closed on 31 December 2020. We have received a large number of feedback and we are working through the feedback and our informal consultation we enter into the next phase. - Phase 3 is no completed.

• Phase 4 (Proposed District Plan): A Proposed District Plan, which has taken account the feedback received in Phase Three, is released for formal public consultation between 22 September 2022 to 15 December 2022. This process involves submissions, further submissions, hearings, decisions and the opportunity for submitters to appeal to the Environment Court. - We are here.

The process of the District Plan Review is shown in the diagram below.

Below is a list of all current and completed consultation undertaken to date:

Last updated: 22 Nov 2022