Palmerston North District Plan Airport noise management
R 20.4.9.2 Airport Noise Management Plan
(i) The Palmerston North Airport Company (or equivalent controlling body) shall prepare a Noise Management Plan ("the NMP") relating to the operation of Palmerston North Airport in consultation with the Palmerston North City Council and Manawatu District Council.
(ii) The NMP shall include the following:
(a) The mechanisms for giving effect to Rule 20.4.9.1(i).
(b) Procedures for the establishment and maintenance of a monitoring programme to demonstrate compliance with R 20.4.9.1(i). The monitoring programme shall be carried out by a suitably qualified and experienced person and all measurements shall be in accordance with NZS 6805:1992 Airport Noise Management and Land Use Planning.
(c) Procedures for reporting the results of monitoring to the respective Councils.
(d) Procedures for carrying out such mitigation measures as are necessary to ensure compliance if monitoring indicates that the noise controls are being exceeded.
(e) Identification and establishment of procedures and systems to:
(i) Facilitate communication between the residents around the Palmerston North Airport , airport users, Palmerston North Airport Company, and Palmerston North City Council.
(ii) Identify key people for communications purposes and methods of contact.
(iii) Provide a dispute management system to receive, record, deal with and monitor complaints.
(iii) The NMP shall be submitted for approval by the Palmerston North City Council within 6 months of the Plan becoming operative. All aspects of the NMP require approval by the Council, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. Nothing in this rule or any other rule shall detract from Sections 16 or 17 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (and subsequent amendments) or the Council's powers to seek any enforcement order pursuant to the Act, including an order requiring the imposition of a curfew, or single event noise controls.
(iv) The NMP shall be reviewed by the Palmerston North City Council and Palmerston North Airport Limited, with input from the community and Manawatu District Council in 2002 and then at three yearly intervals.
