LGOIMA Requests

Date received: 25/03/2025

Requested information: Details about Dangerous, Affected, and Insanitary Buildings in MDC area

Status: Complete

Response:

I refer to your Local Government Official Information Request dated 26 March 2025, in which you seek information relating to buildings identified as dangerous, affected, or insanitary under Sections 121 to 123 of the Building Act 2004. 

In summary, from 1 January 2020 to the present, the Council has issued seven notices. Of these, four were classified as dangerous and three as insanitary. Five of the seven notices have been lifted following compliance. There is no record in councils document management system of the remaining two notices being lifted. For further information, please refer to the attached documentation. 

Please note that Council holds no records of dangerous, affected, or insanitary notices in its document management system prior to 1 January 2020. Any earlier notices may exist only in hard copy within individual property files. Retrieving this information would require a manual review of the property files, which is a time-intensive process. Therefore, council is refusing this request under Section 17 (f) of the Official Information Act (1982) "That the information requested cannot be made available without substantial collation or research."  

Should you wish to proceed with this request, please be aware that staff time will be charged as follows: 

• The first hour of staff time is free of charge. 

Each subsequent half-hour (or part thereof) is charged at $38.00.  

Attachments:

Date received: 18/03/2025

Requested information: Information regarding Bell Road East property

Status: Complete

Response:

Please find the following in response to your request. 

1.         Confirmation of the zoning for the site: 

Zoning = Rural1  

2.         Planning rules regarding the site - particularly in relation to the zone, objectives, policies, rules, standard and the rules relating to noise and dust emissions.  

Relevant planning rules 

• Objectives 

• GRUZ-O2 To maintain and where appropriate enhance the rural character and amenity of the District's rural areas, which includes: 

• GRUZ-O2.1 A predominance of primary production and other rural activities. 

• GRUZ-O2.2 A landscape within which the natural environment (including farming and forestry landscapes) predominates over the built one.   

• GRUZ-O3 To ensure that rural dwellings and properties enjoy a level of rural amenity consistent with the presence of primary production and other rural activities in the zone (Refer also GEN-O5).  

• GRUZ-O4 To minimise conflict between potentially incompatible activities in the rural zone, for example between rural houses and activities such as primary production and rural industries (Refer also GEN-O1, GEN-O2).   

• Policies  

• GRUZ-P1 To avoid damage to the soil resource from land uses which might result in chemical contamination, excavation, erosion or soil compaction. 

• GRUZ-P6 To ensure that new and existing development does not adversely affect the existing character and amenity of the General Rural Zones 

• GRUZ-P11 To recognise that rural residents will need to accept that some adverse effects may result from normal primary production and other rural activities from time to time. 

• RUZ-P14 To ensure that the presence of existing land uses and their right to continue is recognised by those who purchase or use land within the area affected by those land uses. 

• GRUZ-P16 To mitigate the adverse effects of intensive farming activities   

• Rules 

• Permitted 

• GRUZ-R1 Farming and Farm Buildings 

• GRUZ-R21 Accessory buildings. 

• GRUZ-R22 Other buildings ancillary to the primary permitted use of the site.   

• Controlled 

• GRUZ-RC1 Relocated buildings – Refer to matters of control provided for in REL-R1.   

• Discretionary 

• GRUZ-R47 Rural industries, farm contractors depots, and rural transport operators.   

• Standards and rules relating to noise and dust emissions 

  GRUZ-ST11 Noise - Compliance with standards NOISE-ST1 – NOISE-ST4 

• NOISE-ST1 Noise levels shall be measured in accordance with NZS 6801:2008 Measurement of Environmental Sound and assessed in accordance with NZS 6802:2008 Acoustics – Environmental Noise unless otherwise specified. 

• NOISE-ST2 All activities must comply with the following noise levels for the zone the activity is located in. Refer to Table 5 – Noise Level 

• NOISE-ST4 Noise from the following activities are not controlled by NOISE-ST2 in this Plan: 

• NOISE-ST4.4 Rural production activities, except for intensive farming.   

The activity on the property is a rural production activity therefore it is exempt from having to follow specific noise level rules as laid out according to NOISE-ST2.    

Section 16 of the RMA - Duty to avoid unreasonable noise   

• Every occupier of land (including any premises and any coastal marine area), and every person carrying out an activity in, on, or under a water body or the coastal marine area, shall adopt the best practicable option to ensure that the emission of noise from that land or water does not exceed a reasonable level. 

• A national environmental standard, plan, or resource consent made or granted for the purposes of any of sections 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15A, and 15B may prescribe noise emission standards, and is not limited in its ability to do so by subsection (1).    

3.         Information on any resource consents that have been obtained for the site  

Past resource consent information   

A controlled land use consent (LC7716) was granted on 26 August 2010 to relocate a shed from 774 Kimbolton Road, Feilding onto a property situated at Bell Road West, Feilding.  

Date received: 15/03/2025

Requested information: Details of consents etc for properties off McDonnell Road

Status: Complete

Response:

Date received: 14/03/2025

Requested information: Information about raised pedestrian crossings

Status: Complete

Response:

The information you have requested is below. 

When did you build your first raised pedestrian crossing, and why? (As opposed to a standard zebra crossing) 
The first raised pedestrian crossing was installed in May 2021. This was installed subsequent to a school principal's request to provide a pedestrian crossing facility outside the school gate. 

How many have you built since? 
4 (four) more raised pedestrian crossings have been installed since the first. 

In the past 5 years, how many pedestrians have been injured on traditional zebra crossings in your area? 
There has been 1 (one) minor injury reported to 1 (one) pedestrian on traditional zebra crossings in the last 5 (five) years. 

In the past 5 years, how many pedestrians have been injured on raised pedestrian crossings in your area? 
There have been 0 (zero) reported injuries to pedestrians on raised pedestrian crossings in the last 5 (five) years. 

Date received: 14/03/2025

Requested information: Amount paid in FY 24, FY 23 and FY 22 for music licensing fees

Status: Complete

Response:

Date received: 13/03/2025

Requested information: Rating information for 2023/24 financial year

Status: Complete

Response:

I refer to your official information request dated 13 March 2025. 

The information you have requested is below.  

Date received: 08/03/2025

Requested information: Requesting reference maps for any representation reviews done by MDC since 1989

Status: Complete

Response:

Please see attached reference maps covering the last five representation reviews held by the Manawatū District Council, over the years 2000, 2006, 2012, 2018 and 2022.  LG_2339_Response_documents.zip

We unfortunately do not hold data prior to these years, but the Local Government Commission has kindly provided us with the reference maps for the Manawatū District following the 1989 local government amalgamations. Their maps from 1989 (attached to this response) show the below wards: 

• Feilding 

• Kairanga 

• Kiwitea 

• Pohangina 

By 2000, Kiwitea and Pohangina had been combined to become the Kiwitea-Pohangina Ward. The attached maps show the ward progression since then, across 2006, 2012, 2018 and the most recent representation review in 2022.  

The Local Government Commission has advised that Land Information New Zealand have the below maps on file: 

Date received: 28/02/2025

Requested information: Data on petitions received by Council between 01 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2024

Status: Complete

Response:

I refer to your official information request dated 28 February 2025

The information you have requested is attached.

LGOIMA_Petitions.xlsx

Date received: 28/02/2025

Requested information: Correspondence between MDC and LINZ regarding stopping of Opawe Road

Status: Complete

Response:

Attachments:

Date received: 25/02/2025

Requested information: All information, discussions and communication pertaining to the supply of waste to fuel an Energy from Waste or Waste-to-Energy facility.

Status: Complete

Response: