Wairau/Awatere Resource Management Plan 5 March 2015 • Relatively quiet background noise levels (day and night); • Privacy between individual residential properties; • Ample sunlight to buildings, private open space areas; • Views to surrounding hills; • Low building height; and • Open streetscape. The Plan seeks to maintain these residential amenities by requiring the management of adverse effects on these amenities arising from activities within and adjoining residential areas. The Plan seeks to maximise opportunities for views by maintaining a generally low building height and low-to-medium building coverage although the Plan will not guarantee views from individual properties. New sites created by subdivision have historically been required to comply with various minimum area, frontage, and access standards. The creation of sites by cross- lease has involved a different legal mechanism and in some areas different site area standards have applied. New sites, whether created by title subdivision or cross lease or any other legal mechanism, should all meet the same standards. Those standards should provide sufficient area, shape, and access to enable reasonable future development for residential purposes and maintain a low-to-medium urban density throughout the settlements. This Plan aims to make all subdivision standards consistent. Policy 4.10 is specific to the Colonial Vineyards site, New Renwick Road. This policy requires subdivision in this block to follow best practice urban design standards, in accordance with Environment Court decision ENV-2012.CHC-108 which approved rezoning of this block for residential development. Objective 5 The development of residential areas at a rate which ensures the maintenance and enhancement of community health standards. Policy 5.1 Ensure that the unconfined aquifer systems are not compromised by the cumulative effects of sewage effluent discharge (particularly from septic tanks) and other waste disposal to ground. Policy 5.2 Ensure that all allotments and buildings within Blenheim, and any extending the urban area, connect to the reticulated water supply and waste water disposal systems. Policy 5.3 Recognise that further growth of Renwick is controlled by the capacity for on-site sewage disposal. Policy 5.4 Ensure that residential development in non-reticulated townships and settlements is within the capacity for sustainable on-site sewage disposal. Policy 5.5 Avoiding any contaminants entering the stormwater systems within the urban environment. Policy 5.6 Ensure adequate outfalls are available for stormwater disposal systems. 11 - 10