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Clear the Air LTP TCC.pdfOur Long-Term Plan Submission
TCC has a DUTY to improve and protect our community's health and well-being under the Health Act, RMA and Local Government Act. The purpose of local government is to promote the social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being of communities in the present and for the future. How existing communities' well-being is to be protected is reflected in the funding priorities and locations of capital expenditure planned in the LTCCP.
We call for the TCC to allocate a significant amount of funding to redress the disproportionate environmental and amenity costs borne by the Mount local community, from the economic benefits realised from the Port of Tauranga and related industrial uses.
TCC response to our LTP Submission: Received August 30th 2021:
Tauranga City Council 2021-2031 Long-term Plan - Submission ID #1790
Your submission was considered during the Long-term Plan process with Council’s response as follows:
Regarding your comments on pollution in Mount Maunganui
Council acknowledges the concerns of the community associated with Whareroa Marae and the surrounding industrial area and the key interest there is in these matters. The issues are complex and are both historic and current in nature. Tauranga City Council is working with Bay of Plenty Regional Council and the community to consider these issues. Funding has been provided within the Long-term Plan to enable these issues to be progressed.
The supply of industrial land and appropriate provisions for sensitive land uses in proximity to industrial activities has been identified as resource management issue for Council to consider options through the City Plan Review. Suitable funding has been sought to enable this process to be fully explored. Wider funding is very much dependent on future steps that are still to be proposed and determined, and so is more appropriately addressed once options become clearer. It is noted that discharges to air, land and water and governed by the regional council.
Council are also committed to continuing to work with BOPRC, Central Government and key stakeholders to consider the future on the Mount Maunganui industrial area.
Council continue to undertake spatial planning projects across the city. Spatial planning of the Mount Maunganui area is scheduled to commence in 2022. As part of this spatial planning work, the use of reserve land and planting to screen or provide a buffer will be considered.
Bay of Plenty Regional Council currently fund the joint Air Quality Working Party and Tauranga City Council will continue to be involved. If any budget is required to continue this group, funding can be provided within existing budgets.
The matter of City Plan rules relating to carbon neutral is a matter best considered through the next City Plan Review. Currently the Tauranga City Plan does not consider this issue. At present the Tauranga City Plan is being reviewed with planned notification of April 2024 (subject to resource management reforms and direction from central Government).
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