Legislative Compliance and Designated Protection Data
User Stories
- a council manages pieces of land that can be subject to one or more of a set of six designation types, including some that are voluntary and specific to that council (covenants on the title, QEII, consent conditions, SNA, KNE, parks & reserves, and our local important sites)
- some types of protection status apply to a site; some apply to a species; some apply to a combination of both (eg the foo regional plan says that all sites with a certain area of a certain type of vegetation has a certain protection status)
- consents and breaches of consents; a biodiversity prosecution will have to deal with regulatory definitions of significance; only data with a clear chain of custody will stand up in court
Checklists
Level One: No designation status associated with data.
Level Two: A set of records is maintained with a specific designation in mind (eg SNA DB).
Level Three: Processes exist for recording the associating for all records with multiple types of designation status.
Level Four: Data on all organisms and habitats in the area of management has information about its legal protection status.
Level Five: Legal status fully integrated with provenance, location data and metadata.
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Reference Resources
A number of councils have undertaken SNA projects to develop best practice systems around managing SNA's in their region. One such project was the West Coast Significant Natural Areas Project. This booklet is based on the West Coast councils’ (Buller, Grey and Westland District Councils and the West Coast Regional Council) experiences in undertaking an exercise to meet the requirements of section 6(c) Resource Management Act.
Marlborough District Council have also undertaken a SNA project.
General guidance on best practice around SNA's can be found at the government Quality Planning website.
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