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The new SNA map captures 95 per cent of all private land on the West Coast, according to Westland Mayor Bruce Smith. "It also includes DOC stewardship land, which will skew the independent evaluation of that land that's supposed to be getting under way," Smith told the meeting."We are now up to 91.5 per cent of Westland controlled by DOC or other protection ... we should not receive this report - it takes away property rights without consent." Māori TV Tāmati Tiananga of Te Ao Mārama speaks with Kuia Hine Puru, daughter of the famous mana wahine, and kuia from Te Tai Tokerau, Māori ri...

Tourist attractions or industrial sites? The future rules for West Coast ports have come under close scrutiny this week from the Tai o Poutini Plan Committee. Photo: RNZ / Tracy Neal Mayors, chairs, councillors and iwi are gradually working their way through every section of the Westland, Grey and Buller district plans, to come up with a revised document that rolls them into one. The committee this week tackled performance standards for ports at Westport and Greymouth - and protecting the rights of port users emerged as their top priority. Principal planner Lois Easton presented an update on ...

Because there were no rules to cover that in Westland, Buller and many areas around Greymouth, there had been conflicts between lifestylers and rural landowners, the planners said. Lifestyle blocks next to milking platforms or mining activities for instance were creating “reverse sensitivities” – with newcomers objecting to noise or other practices that pre-dated their arrival. Unregulated lifestyle development also created demand for infrastructure like footpaths not normally found in rural areas, and could lead to good productive land being lost to housing. As the planners see it, ...