Ashburton District Plan: Plan Change 7

Private Plan Change Request – Coniston Park Ltd - Farm and Racecourse Roads, Ashburton

About the Request

The private plan change request seeks a change to the Ashburton District Plan to rezone approximately 16.32ha of land, located on the north-west corner of Farm and Racecourse Roads, Ashburton, from Residential D to Residential C.

This webpage provides information on the plan change request, including the original application, requests for further information and responses received, along with the final plan change request.

Submissions

Any person, including the local authority, may make a submission on the proposal, but submissions made solely on trade competition grounds are not permitted.

You may make a submission by sending a written or electronic submission titled ‘Private Plan Change Farm Road and Racecourse Road’. Submissions must be written and in accordance with Form 5 of the Resource Management Regulations (2003). All submissions must state whether the submitter wishes to be heard in support of their submission. Copies of this form are available from the sites listed above.

Submissions may be:

• Posted to: Planning Team, Ashburton District Council, PO Box 94, Ashburton 7740
• Delivered to: Council Offices at 2 Baring Square East, Ashburton
• Emailed to: info@adc.govt.nz

The closing date for submissions is 5pm, Wednesday 1 October  2025.

The submission form can be found here.

If you have any questions about this application, or the submission and decision process,  please contact the Planning Team via planning@adc.govt.nz.

Final Plan Change Application

Further Information Requests and Peer Reviews

Record of Responses to Further Information Requests and Peer Reviews

Original Plan Change Application

Ashburton District Plan: Plan Change 6

This privately initiated plan change was notified on Thursday 19 September 2024 and became operative on Monday 9 June 2025. Further details below.

Decision

Hearing

Submissions

Plan Change request documents

Ashburton District Plan: Plan Change 5

Ashburton District Council has prepared Plan Change 5 – Transportation to its Operative District Plan (2014).

The change covers the following areas:

• Consequential amendments to various sections resulting from the implementation of the National Policy Statement on Urban Development
• Provision of mobility parking and cycle parking standards
• Provision for the assessment of high trip generating activities
• Updates to the Roading Hierarchy tables in the Transportation section.
• Further summary about what the Plan Change covers can be found here.

Operative Date

Ashburton District Council gives notice that Plan Change 5 will become operative on Tuesday 4 June 2024.

• Public Notice - PC5 operative date

Legal Status of Council Initiated Plan Changes

The proposed provisions of a Plan Change take legal effect once decisions are released; however, any proposed provision must be treated as operative (before or after decisions) if it is beyond challenge e.g. if the time for making submissions or appeals has closed and there are no submissions in opposition to it or appeals lodged against it, or if any appeals lodged against it have been resolved.

• Legal effect means any proposed provision must be considered, and if any proposed provision requires resource consent, this consent must be sought.
• Treated as operative means the provision is in full effect but is yet to be made formally operative (this requires public notification).”

Decision

• Public Notice of Decision
• Commissioners Recommentation Report
• PC5 Appendix 2A - Section 10 Transport
• PC5 Appendix 2B - Section 4 Residential Zones
• PC5 Appendix 2C - Section 5 Business Zones
• PC5 Appendix 2D - Section 7 Aquatic Park Zone
• PC5 Appendix 2E - Section 8 Scheduled Activities
• PC5 Appendix 2F - Section 17 Definitions
• Council Agenda 20 March 2024

Hearing

Further Submissions

• PC5 Canterbury Regional Council Further Submission

Submissions

Proposed Plan Change 5 Documents

• Public Notice - Plan Change 5

State of the Environment Reporting

Read about State of the Environment Reporting​ undertaken in 2017 and 2018.​