Environment

Working together to protect and enhance our distinctive natural environment

Our environment underpins the sub-region's diversity. Coast, dunes, estuaries, rivers, streams, harbour, bush-clad ranges, fertile agricultural and horticultural land - all this is ours to protect and enhance. The depth of information embraced by territorial and regional council planning and policy has enabled SmartGrowth to define environmental outcomes to protect, preserve and improve our natural features.

Much work lies ahead around groundwater availability, water demand, energy efficiency, monitoring and the provision of incentives for biodiversity protection on private land.

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Research and Reference Reports

Date Name Description Author
2012 Assessment of the natural character of the Bay of Plenty coastal environment Assessment of the natural character of the Bay of Plenty coastal environment: Part 1 - Contents and Executive Summary
2012 Assessment of the natural character of the Bay of Plenty coastal environment Assessment of the natural character of the Bay of Plenty coastal environment: Part 2 - Coastal Sector Evaluation
2012 Assessment of the natural character of the Bay of Plenty coastal environment Assessment of the natural character of the Bay of Plenty coastal environment: Part 3 - Appendices
2012 Catchment Action Plans Catchment Action Plans (Bay of Plenty Regional Council website)
2009 Water Sustainability Strategy Water Sustainability Strategy Western Bay Sub-Region
2009 Tauranga Harbour Sedimentation Study NIWA Tauranga Harbour Sedimentation Study
2012 Rena Recovery Plan Reference Report
2011 Updated Climate Change Assessment for the BOP Reference Report
2011 Tauranga City Landscape Study - Part A [7MB] Reference Report
2011 Tauranga City Landscape Study - Part B [7MB] Reference Report
2011 Tauranga City Landscape Study - Part C [7MB] Reference Report
2011 Tauranga City Landscape Study - Part D [7MB] Reference Report
2011 Tauranga City Landscape Study - Part E [7MB] Reference Report
2011 Tauranga City Landscape Study - Part F [7MB] Reference Report
2011 Tauranga City Landscape Study - Part G [7MB] Reference Report
2011 Bramley Drive Landscape Hazard Assessment Reference Report
2010 Water Meter Report - Economic Impact of Water Meters on Tauranga Community Reference Report
2008 Indigenous Biodiversity of Tauranga City Reference Report
2007 Mauāo - Landscape management protection Reference Report
2003 SmartGrowth - Land and Ocean Discharge of Wastewater Reference Report
2003 Landscapes and Natural Features Reference Report
2003 Identification of ecological constraints to development in the Western Bay of Plenty Reference Report

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