Volume One 13. Use of the Coastal Environment [C] Policy 13.10.6 – Structures should be in an appropriate location and of an appropriate scale, design, cladding and colour to avoid or mitigate adverse effects on the landscape and amenity values of the coastal environment. When designing or building structures, it is important for resources users to consider how adverse effects on landscape and amenity values can be avoided or mitigated. This is important, given the imperatives in Sections 6 and 7 of the RMA for landscape, quality of the environment and amenity values. The policy also assists in addressing Issue 4C, concerning a detraction from the character and intrinsic values of the Marlborough Sounds. [C] Policy 13.10.7 – Structures shall be designed and located allowing for relevant dynamic coastal processes, including sea level rise. This policy helps to give effect to the provisions of the NZCPS regarding coastal hazards. It is important that structures are designed by appropriately qualified experts to ensure these matters are taken into account. [C] Policy 13.10.8 – Where consent is granted for a structure, the coastal permit will generally tie the structure to the property for which the use was intended. On sale of the property, or in the case of structure(s) granted resource consent for commercial purposes where the structure is related to the business being sold, the transfer of coastal permits for structures to the new owners of the property/business will be required. In the initial granting of a coastal permit application, the detail included with the application would have stated whether an applicant owned land adjacent to the site. Policy 13.10.5 also considered the need for the structure. It is important that the consent is tied to a property for which the use was intended. It therefore follows that when the property is sold, or in the case of a permit for which consent was granted to a business, when the business is sold, the coastal permit should be transferred to the new property/business owner. Where the structure has no association with a specific property, e.g. a public launching ramp, there is no need for the consent to be tied to a property. [C] Policy 13.10.9 – Coastal structures shall be maintained in a way that protects public safety, including for safe navigation. As coastal structures are located within the public domain and in areas where there can be commercial, recreational or residential navigation, it is important that these structures are maintained in good condition to remain intact, ensuring public safety is protected. This will require compliance with relevant consent conditions. [C] Policy 13.10.10 – Coastal structures shall be required to be removed from the coastal marine area in the following circumstances: (a) where there is no longer a need for the structure; (b) when a coastal permit for a structure expires and no new permit has been sought; or (c) where consent to authorise an existing structure is refused. There may be circumstances where coastal structures are no longer required or are not granted new resource consents in terms of (b) or (c). Where this is the case it is appropriate for the structure to be removed from the coastal marine area. This will help to achieve Policy 6(2)(e) of the NZCPS by promoting the efficient use of the coastal marine area. This policy will be achieved through conditions imposed on resource consents granted. 13 – 27