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(ii) public use and enjoyment of public space in the coastal environment is affected, or is likely to be affected; or
(iii) development or land management practices may be affected by physical changes to the coastal environment or
potential inundation from coastal hazards, including as a result of climate change; or
(iv) land use activities affect, or are likely to affect, water quality in the coastal environment and marine ecosystems
through increasing sedimentation; or
(v) significant adverse cumulative effects are occurring, or can be anticipated.

Policy 5 Land or waters managed or held under other Acts

(1) Consider effects on land or waters in the coastal environment held or managed under:
(a) the Conservation Act 1987 and any Act listed in the 1st Schedule to that Act; or
(b) other Acts for conservation or protection purposes;
and, having regard to the purposes for which the land or waters are held or managed:
(c) avoid adverse effects of activities that are significant in relation to those purposes; and
(d) otherwise avoid, remedy or mitigate adverse effects of activities in relation to those purposes.

(2) Have regard to publicly notified proposals for statutory protection of land or waters in the coastal environment and the
adverse effects of activities on the purposes of that proposed statutory protection.

Policy 6 Activities in the coastal environment

(1) In relation to the coastal environment:
(a) recognise that the provision of infrastructure, the supply and transport of energy including the generation and
transmission of electricity, and the extraction of minerals are activities important to the social, economic and
cultural well-being of people and communities;
(b) consider the rate at which built development and the associated public infrastructure should be enabled to provide
for the reasonably foreseeable needs of population growth without compromising the other values of the coastal
environment;
(c) encourage the consolidation of existing coastal settlements and urban areas where this will contribute to the
avoidance or mitigation of sprawling or sporadic patterns of settlement and urban growth;
(d) recognise tangata whenua needs for papakāinga, marae and associated developments and make appropriate
provision for them;
(e) consider where and how built development on land should be controlled so that it does not compromise activities of
national or regional importance that have a functional need to locate and operate in the coastal marine area;
(f) consider where development that maintains the character of the existing built environment should be encouraged,
and where development resulting in a change in character would be acceptable;
(g) take into account the potential of renewable resources in the coastal environment, such as energy from wind, waves,
currents and tides, to meet the reasonably foreseeable needs of future generations;
(h) consider how adverse visual impacts of development can be avoided in areas sensitive to such effects, such as
headlands and prominent ridgelines, and as far as practicable and reasonable apply controls or conditions to avoid
those effects;
(i) set back development from the coastal marine area and other water bodies, where practicable and reasonable, to
protect the natural character, open space, public access and amenity values of the coastal environment; and
(j) where appropriate, buffer areas and sites of significant indigenous biological diversity, or historic heritage value.

(2) Additionally, in relation to the coastal marine area:
(a) recognise potential contributions to the social, economic and cultural wellbeing of people and communities from
use and development of the coastal marine area, including the potential for renewable marine energy to contribute
to meeting the energy needs of future generations;
(b) recognise the need to maintain and enhance the public open space and recreation qualities and values of the coastal
marine area;
(c) recognise that there are activities that have a functional need to be located in the coastal marine area, and provide
for those activities in appropriate places;
(d) recognise that activities that do not have a functional need for location in the coastal marine area generally should
not be located there; and
(e) promote the efficient use of occupied space, including by:
(i) requiring that structures be made available for public or multiple use wherever reasonable and practicable;
(ii) requiring the removal of any abandoned or redundant structure that has no heritage, amenity or reuse value;
and
(iii) considering whether consent conditions should be applied to ensure that space occupied for an activity is used
for that purpose effectively and without unreasonable delay.

Policy 7 Strategic planning

(1) In preparing regional policy statements, and plans:
(a) consider where, how and when to provide for future residential, rural residential, settlement, urban development
and other activities in the coastal environment at a regional and district level; and
(b) identify areas of the coastal environment where particular activities and forms of subdivision, use, and development:
(i) are inappropriate; and
(ii) may be inappropriate without the consideration of effects through a resource consent application, notice of
requirement for designation or Schedule 1 of the Resource Management Act process;