Wairau/ Awatere Resource Management Plan 1.4 History of the Plan The Wairau/ Awatere Plan replaces the following District Schemes prepared under the Town and Country Planning Act 1977 and deemed to be sections of the Operative Transitional Marlborough District Plan under the Act: • The County of Marlborough: Marlborough Division District Scheme. • The County of Marlborough: Wairau Plains Section. • The County of Marlborough: Awatere Division District Scheme. • The Borough of Blenheim District Scheme. The Wairau/ Awatere Plan also replaces the following Regional Plans: • The Wairau River Floodways Management Plan, 1994. • The Marlborough Resource Management Plan, Land Disturbance Control, 1995. • The Nelson/ Marlborough Regional Council Transitional Regional Plan, 1991. • Marlborough United Council Regional Planning Scheme, 1982. 1.5 How the Wairau/Awatere Resource Management Plan Works The Plan sets out the manner in which the Council intends to deal with its functions under the Act. In doing this, the Plan specifies objectives, policies, rules and other methods, in relation to the resource management issues of the Plan area, to achieve the integrated and sustainable management of natural and physical resources of this part of the District. In managing the use, development and protection of the natural and physical resources over the next ten years, the Plan must reflect and provide for the principal resource management issues pertaining to the Plan area. The Plan examines and discusses the issues that have been identified by the Community and sets out the objectives and policies in regard to those issues. The objectives are framed as the end state or situation that the Plan aims to achieve. The policies are the course of action being followed through the Plan to achieve the objective. To achieve the objectives and policies of the Plan, rules are included which prohibit, regulate or allow activities. The Council has adopted the practice of zoning. This technique recognises that different locations within the plan area will have different resources, character and levels of amenity and that the community will seek different environmental outcomes for these areas. The zones provide opportunities for future development in keeping with the character and amenity sought for these different areas. Any particular activity must comply with the rules applicable to the zone in which it is situated, as well as general rules covering a range of matters such as subdivision, heritage values and transportation. 1.6 Plan Structure The Wairau/Awatere Resource Management Plan comprises three volumes: Volume One Contains the introduction to the Plan which incorporates information requirements for resource consent applications, cross boundary matters and monitoring. Volume One contains the issues 1 - 2