refer to defacing or damaging”. These activities are also considered to be “obscuring, captured by any changes to a building’s or “fabric” “features”. Repainting has been explicitly excluded from the proposed definition of external alterations because it is not an activity that is captured by any existing definitions of except ‘alteration’, for the Hastings District Plan. If councils want specific rules to cover there is repainting, nothing stopping them from creating specific rules to address the issue. Factory farming See Policy decision to define intensive farming instead. definition of intensive farming. In their submission on the proposed Invercargill City District Plan, Federated Farmers petitioned for the phrase farming” to be replaced with farming”. In “factory “intensive their view, the phrase farming” is emotionally charged and inflammatory. They “factory also consider it to be synonymous with intensive farming. It is accepted that this is the case and have accordingly defined farming’. This will supersede existing definitions of ‘intensive farming’. ‘factory Farming See of Policy decision to define production” instead. definition “primary Consultation with members of our rural sector group highlighted the similarities between the terms and production”, which they considered to be largely “farming” “primary synonymous. Of the two, there was a preference for the planning standards to define production”. We agreed, and believe that production” provides greater “primary “primary scope for non-traditional forms of rural land use activities. Hazardous facility Means land or buildings where hazardous substances Removed following feedback that this is covered through Hazardous Substances and New are used, stored, manufactured, handled or disposed of. Organisms Act 1996 (HSNO) and WorkSafe legislation and regulation. This activity does not include the use and storage of Also recognise that the hazardous substances function was removed from the RMA in the hazardous substances for domestic uses. as defined in 2017 amendments to the RMA. A hazardous substances definition has been included for the Health and Safety at Work Act . those councils that want to manage land use integration issues around hazardous substances and hazardous facilities. Our research could not identify any easy reference to levels that could be used to determine appropriate limits for domestic use. There were also concerns around what it does capture; this definition would capture any store that sells chemicals and paint products.
refer to “obscuring, defacing or damaging”. These activities are also considered to be captured by any changes to a building’s “fabric” or “features”. Repainting has been explicitly excluded from the proposed definition of external alterations because it is not an activity that is captured by any existing definitions of ‘alteration’, except for the Hastings District Plan. If councils want specific rules to cover repainting, there is nothing stopping them from creating specific rules to address the issue. Factory farming See definition of intensive farming. Policy decision to define intensive farming instead. In their submission on the proposed Invercargill City District Plan, Federated Farmers petitioned for the phrase “factory farming” to be replaced with “intensive farming”. In their view, the phrase “factory farming” is emotionally charged and inflammatory. They also consider it to be synonymous with intensive farming. It is accepted that this is the case and have accordingly defined ‘intensive farming’. This will supersede existing definitions of ‘factory farming’. Farming See definition of Policy decision to define “primary production” instead. Consultation with members of our rural sector group highlighted the similarities between the terms “farming” and “primary production”, which they considered to be largely synonymous. Of the two, there was a preference for the planning standards to define “primary production”. We agreed, and believe that “primary production” provides greater scope for non-traditional forms of rural land use activities. Hazardous facility Means land or buildings where hazardous substances are used, stored, manufactured, handled or disposed of. This activity does not include the use and storage of hazardous substances for domestic uses. as defined in the Health and Safety at Work Act . Removed following feedback that this is covered through Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (HSNO) and WorkSafe legislation and regulation. Also recognise that the hazardous substances function was removed from the RMA in the 2017 amendments to the RMA. A hazardous substances definition has been included for those councils that want to manage land use integration issues around hazardous substances and hazardous facilities. Our research could not identify any easy reference to levels that could be used to determine appropriate limits for domestic use. There were also concerns around what it does capture; this definition would capture any store that sells chemicals and paint products.
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