Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 9, 2016 16:35:50 GMT 12
Ngai Tahu keen to map important sites
Ngai Tahu wants to map important ancestral sites and cultural landscapes in the Queenstown Lakes district to ensure they are better recognised in council planning.
Runanga representatives told commissioners in Queenstown yesterday the maps should form the basis of new provisions in the second stage of the council's proposed district plan (PDP).
They were the first verbal submissions to the hearings panel out of the 1200 lodged with the council late last year.
Kai Tahu ki Otago senior planner Maree Kleinlangevelsloo said "wahi tupuna'' mapping would be linked to objectives, policies and rules in the PDP to ensure features such as trails, mountains and battle sites were recognised.
Another submission by Oraka-Aparima Runanga executive member Jane Kitson called for an amendment to the PDP to include a policy from the National Policy Statement relating to freshwater management.
The policy required local authorities to take "reasonable steps'' to involve iwi and hapu in the management of fresh water and fresh water ecosystems…..
www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/375709/ngai-tahu-keen-map-important-sites
Ngai Tahu wants to map important ancestral sites and cultural landscapes in the Queenstown Lakes district to ensure they are better recognised in council planning.
Runanga representatives told commissioners in Queenstown yesterday the maps should form the basis of new provisions in the second stage of the council's proposed district plan (PDP).
They were the first verbal submissions to the hearings panel out of the 1200 lodged with the council late last year.
Kai Tahu ki Otago senior planner Maree Kleinlangevelsloo said "wahi tupuna'' mapping would be linked to objectives, policies and rules in the PDP to ensure features such as trails, mountains and battle sites were recognised.
Another submission by Oraka-Aparima Runanga executive member Jane Kitson called for an amendment to the PDP to include a policy from the National Policy Statement relating to freshwater management.
The policy required local authorities to take "reasonable steps'' to involve iwi and hapu in the management of fresh water and fresh water ecosystems…..
www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/375709/ngai-tahu-keen-map-important-sites