The 'quadrant' approach to structuring a plan
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Commentary |
Diagram |
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Step One: The RMA requires plans to contain Objectives, Policies, and Rules… |
Objectives |
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Step Two: For the purposes of organising material into groups and demonstrating the origin of provisions, 'issues ' are added |
Issues |
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Step Three: Issues can occur at either the region or district-wide level, or may be particular to a certain area, or sub-region. Step three requires identifying the geographical extent of each issue and dividing them (and their associated provisions) into two parallel plan provision streams… |
District / Region Wide Issues |
Area Specific
Issues |
Step Four: Many plan users will only need to refer to the rules of the plan. Only when a consent is required is reference to policy needed. Rules are therefore separated from policy and grouped together. There are thus four parts to the basic plan structure. |
District / Region Wide Issues |
Area Specific
Issues |
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Step Five: Following the rule of 'general before specific':
This then provides a natural order for the quadrants… |
District / Region Wide 1 Issues |
Area Specific 2 Issues |
3 Rules |
4 Rules |
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Step Six: It is unlikely that a plan can be written in the quadrant form shown in the diagram, so reorganising it into list form it becomes… |
1: District / Region Wide Policy Framework 2: Area-specific Policy Framework 3: District / Region-wide Rules 4: Area-specific Rules
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Step Seven: Finally, most plans will need introductory materials, appendices / annexes and maps to be workable. This becomes additional material that is placed either side of the four main parts. The additional material is ordered according to legislative drafting and publishing conventions. |
Contents Pages 1: District / Region Wide Policy Framework 2: Area-specific Policy Framework 3: District / Region-wide Rules 4: Area-specific Rules Appendices |
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