Objectives
Objective 1
People and communities are able to provide for their social, economic, and cultural wellbeing through the use, development, and protection of natural and physical resources in the coastal environment.
Objective 2
Subdivision, use, and development in the coastal environment are managed to ensure they occur in places, in forms and within limits consistent with sustainable management.
Objective 3
The natural character of the coastal environment is preserved, through the protection or restoration of natural landscapes, features, processes and indigenous biological diversity.
Objective 4
Management of natural and physical resources in the coastal environment takes account of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and recognises the role of tangata whenua as kaitiaki.
Objective 5
The public utility of the coastal marine area as public open space is recognised, and its cultural and amenity values as open space are protected.
Objective 6
Public access to and along the coastal marine area is maintained and enhanced.
Objective 7
Water quality in the coastal environment is maintained, or improved over time where it has deteriorated from its natural state.
Objective 8
Coastal hazard risks are managed increasingly by locating or relocating development away from risk areas, protecting or restoring natural defences and discouraging recourse to hard protection structures.
Objective 9
Historic heritage in the coastal environment is protected from inappropriate subdivision, use, and development.
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