Date: Time: Meeting Room: Venue:	Wednesday, 12 March 2025 10.00am Room 1, Level 26 Te Wharau o Tāmaki - Auckland House 135 Albert Street, Auckland
Te Komiti mō te Kaupapa Here me te Whakamahere / Policy and Planning Committee Workshop - Natural Hazards Plan Change - draft stage OPEN AGENDA

MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson	Cr Richard Hills
Deputy Chairperson	Cr Angela Dalton
Members	Houkura Member Edward Ashby	Cr Mike Lee
	Cr Andrew Baker	Cr Kerrin Leoni
	Cr Josephine Bartley	Cr Daniel Newman, JP
	Mayor Wayne Brown	Cr Greg Sayers
	Cr Chris Darby	Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson, JP
	Cr Julie Fairey	Cr Sharon Stewart, QSM
	Cr Alf Filipaina, MNZM	Cr Ken Turner
	Cr Christine Fletcher, QSO	Cr Wayne Walker
	Cr Lotu Fuli	Cr John Watson
	Houkura Member Hon Tau Henare	Cr Maurice Williamson
	Cr Shane Henderson

Sandra Gordon

Kaitohutohu Mana Whakahaere Matua / Senior Governance Advisor

5 March 2025

Contact Telephone: +64 9 890 8150

Email: Sandra.Gordon@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Website: www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Workshops enable staff to explore options with elected members before ideas are fully developed, and to receive feedback and guidance on policy development or project design. No resolutions or decisions are made by elected members at workshops and so the requirements of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 relating to local authority meetings do not apply.

ITEM   TABLE OF CONTENTS            PAGE

1 Ngā Tamōtanga | Apologies                                                   2

2          Te Whakapuaki i te Whai Pānga | Declaration of Interest                                                               2

3          Open Workshop: Natural Hazards Plan Change - draft stage                                                                                          3

Agenda items

1          Ngā Tamōtanga | Apologies

2          Te Whakapuaki i te Whai Pānga | Declaration of Interest

Members are reminded of the need to be vigilant to stand aside from decision making when a conflict arises between their role as a member and any private or other external interest they might have.

Policy and Planning Committee Workshop 12 March 2025

Workshop: Natural Hazards Plan Change - draft stage

File No.: CP2025/00810

Note 1:       This workshop has been called by the chairperson in consultation with the staff.

Note 2:       No working party/workshop may reach any decision or adopt any resolution unless specifically directed to do so.

Te take mō te pūrongo

Purpose of the report

1.       The purpose of the workshop is to:

i)       present proposals and draft provisions to strengthen the Auckland Unitary Plan to better manage natural hazards; and

ii)       receive committee directions that support the further development of proposals and draft provisions towards a plan change for natural hazards.

Whakarāpopototanga matua

Executive summary

2.       The following will be covered in the workshop:

Item

Recap of work on a plan change to the Auckland Unitary Plan for natural hazards and progress to date

Phill Reid, Auckland-wide Planning Manager

An overview of activity since June 2023 when the Planning, Environment and Parks Committee (now Policy and Planning Committee) endorsed the preparation of changes to the AUP to strengthen the management of risk from natural hazards.

This included a number of workshops with the committee through 2023 and 2024 that outlined work on scope and issues for a plan change, developing a draft approach to managing hazards, engagement with mana whenua and stakeholders, and preparation of a risk tolerance framework.

Overview of the proposed draft changes to the AUP to strengthen its ability to manage natural hazard risk

Tian Liu, Senior Policy Planner

An overview of a proposed process for addressing natural hazards compared to the current approach in the AUP. This includes refining when risk assessments are required, updated activity status and tables, greater clarity on the management of certain activities, and defining when risk is tolerable or intolerable including the potential use of zoning.

Timeline and next steps

Phill Reid, Auckland-wide Planning Manager

Includes preparing proposed provisions and applying to planning maps, and preparing supporting plan change documentation ready for notification. A focused round of engagement with iwi, institutional stakeholders and community groups involved in risk tolerance exercises is being organised for later in March into April 2025.