Mean High Water Springs-10 (MHWS10) line for the Greater Wellington Region, NZ. MHWS10 is the mean high water spring tide exceeded 10 percent of the time. It is often used as a practical high tide level for infrastructure design works, and also for estimating extreme high (e.g. the 100-year Average Recurrence Interval) storm tides.Line extracted from a...

This data set has been created for the Wellington Regional Strategy - Open Space Planning Working Group. The data captured in this data set is derived from the Open Space Planning Matrix 2009. This matrix is used to assess all areas of open space for all councils in the Wellington Region (TLA, DOC and Queen Elizabeth Trust) to determine the predominant...

The boundary for the Pakuratahi Forest in the Greater Wellington Park network. For information regarding the activities present within the Park, check out the GWRC website through the links in the attribute table.The boundaries are based on the LINZ Parcel boundaries which have been merged together to get the features shown. The data is updated on an 'as...

This datasets shows the locations of activities that require approval from GWRC under the proposed Natural Resources Plan. For more information on the types of consent that are recorded in this dataset, go to our Resource Consents page on our website.The data is updated on a nightly basis from the GWRC Environmental Regulation database. They show the...

Tsunami evacuation maps containing three zones; red, orange and yellow, corresponding to different threat levels for the development of tsunami evacuation plans, public awareness, self evacuation and official civil defence emergency management or emergency services evacuations in the event of a tsunami. The zones were digitised onto orthophoto coverage...

Titahi Bay fossil forest area identified and mapped in the Wellington region for the Proposed Natural Resources Plan from aerial orthophotos, field surveys and geological maps and reports. Dawe, I (2014), Regional Plan Review: Schedule J - Significant geological features in the coastal marine area. Unpublished Wellington Regional Council Report,...

Erosion Prone Land from the Regional Soil Plan in the Wellington region as it was mapped for the Regional Soil Plan, one of the preceeders for the PNRP. The data was based on 2 major datasets - the underlying rock types to determine succeptible areas to erosion and slope angles to find those areas that are most at risk.

This feature class depicts six ‘river classes’. The classes recognise the six main types of streams and rivers found in the Greater Wellington region based on variables that characterise the natural environment such as climate, slope and catchment geology. The river classes are based on the Freshwater Environments of New Zealand (FWENZ) classification...

Coastal Marine Area and River Mouth boundaries identified and mapped for the Wellington Region. These boundaries were agreed to for the Regional Coastal Plan for the Wellington Region 2000 and the delineations that appear in this map conform to those agreements. All other rivers and streams not identified are defined using the RMA 1991 definition, as...

Trout fishery rivers in the Wellington Region identified by Wellington Fish and Game and based on the Fisheries Resource Inventory. Each catchment and river has its own inventory database that is continually updated and added to with information from field work that includes drift dive surveys, fish traps, electric fishing counts and tagging. Trout spawn...

Sites with significant indigenous biodiversity values in the CMA Sites were identified with existing information and expert opinion and using the criteria in Policy 23 of the Regional Policy Statement for the Wellington Region and contained in more detail in: MacDiarmid et al (2012); Oliver & Beaglehole (2014); Todd et al (2014). MacDiarmid A, Nelson...

This feature class shows water races in the Wairarapa which are subject to Rule LW.R141 that permits the taking and use of water from water races provided the take and use is authorised by a resource consent held by the district council controlling the water race. The water races are identified in the following consents held by district councils in the...

Sites of significance identified by mana whenua iwi in the Wellington region and reported under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council, listed under Schedule C4: Sites of significance to Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika a MauiSites of significance were mapped for Schedule C of the Natural Resources Plan for the Wellington Region - Te Tikanga...

Sites of significance identified by mana whenua iwi in the greater Wellington region and reported under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council, listed under Schedule C1: Sites of significance to Ngā Hapū o Ōtaki.Sites of significance were mapped for Schedule C of the Natural Resources Plan for the Wellington Region - Te Tikanga Taiao o Te Upoko o...

Sites of significance identified by mana whenua iwi in the greater Wellington region and reported under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council, listed under Schedule C5: Sites of significance to Rangitāne o Wairarapa & Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa.Sites of significance were mapped for Schedule C of the Proposed Natural Resources Plan for the...

Historic heritage sites of significance scheduled in the Natural Resources Plan based on work contained in reports produced under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council by Chris Cochran, Russell Murray, Michael Kelly and Andy Dodd (2012), Coastal Historic Heritage of the Wellington Region: Survey for the Coastal Plan Review. Cochran & Murray...

Sites of significance identified by mana whenua iwi in the greater Wellington region and reported under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council, listed under Schedule C2: Sites of significance to Te Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai.Sites of significance were mapped for Schedule C of the Proposed Natural Resources Plan for the Wellington Region 2015 - Te...

Waterbodies and catchments including rivers, lakes, harbours and open sea areas with significance to and identified as taonga by mana whenua iwi in the Wellington Region. This schedule relates to catchment management and shared decision making principles enbodied in the Plan. In particular the schedule recognises that kaitiakitanga shall be recognised and...

Sites of significance identified by mana whenua iwi in the greater Wellington region and reported under contract to Greater Wellington Regional Council, listed under Schedule C3: Sites of significance to Ngāti Toa RangātiraSites of significance were mapped for Schedule C of the Natural Resources Plan for the Wellington Region - Te Tikanga Taiao o Te Upoko...

Landscape assessment areas for the Waiarapa coast, developed for the Wairarapa Coastal Strategy in 2004 by Boffa Miskell.The Wellington Coastal Strategy has been included with the new Proposed Natural Resources Plan. Refer to pnrp.gw.govt.nz for more information regarding the new plan. Maps of the new plan are available through our map gallery.