Administration of Mōtītī Island
Find information about managing land use on Mōtītī Island, including resource consents, environmental planning and how we support sustainable development on the island.
Applying for a resource consent
Doing something with your land? You may need permission from the Minister of Local Government.
This permission is called a resource consent. A resource consent is needed if the way you are intending to use your land goes against a rule in the Mōtītī Island Environmental Management Plan (the Plan). The Plan is below.
We can work with you to understand whether you need a resource consent to do something with your land and, if you need a resource consent, what you need to put in your application.
Non-notified resource consent process for Mōtītī (PDF, 215KB)
Limited-notified resource consent process for Mōtītī (PDF, 253KB)
Public-notified resource consent process for Mōtītī (PDF, 229KB)
Mōtītī Island environmental management plan
The Plan is a district plan that incorporates aspects of the Mōtītī Island Hapu Management Plan. The Plan will assist in achieving the sustainable management of natural and physical resources on the island to enable the community to provide for their environmental, social, economic, and cultural wellbeing.
The Plan was made operative by the Environment Court on 19 January 2015 and approved on 6 May 2016.
The Mōtītī Island Environmental Management Plan (PDF, 1.5MB)
Appendix 2 - Planning Maps
Appendix 3 - Schedule of Cultural Heritage and Archaelogical Sites
Index sheet - North (PDF, 2.3MB)
Index sheet - South (PDF, 1.9MB)
Schedule of Cultural Heritage and Archaeological sites - pages 1 to 150 (PDF, 5.3MB)
Schedule of Cultural Heritage and Archaeological sites - pages 151 to 316 (PDF, 7.2MB)
More information about the history and development of the Plan.
Mōtītī Island hapu management plan
The Mōtītī Island Hapu Management Plan was lodged with the Department of Internal Affairs. It should be noted that while the Hapu Management Plan has been lodged and is a public document, the ownership of the plan rests with its authors.
Mōtītī Island Hapu Management Plan (PDF, 7.6MB)
Fire protection management
On 1 July 2015, Mōtītī Island was included in the Pumicelands Rural Fire District. Because of this, the Pumicelands Rural Fire Authority (PRFA) administers some of the Minister’s responsibilities under the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977 for Mōtītī Island. The PRFA’s goal is to provide effective rural fire protection administration services in its district. The structure and functions of the PRFA are set out the PRFA’s constitution, which can be found on the PRFA’s website.
The PRFA’s district has been divided into zones and each zone is administered by an operations group. The Moana Zone operations group administers parts of the western Bay of Plenty region, including Mōtītī Island, and so the Ministry is represented on that group on the Minister’s behalf.
More information about the Western Bay of Plenty Zone operations group’s work can be found on the Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s website.
Pumicelands Rural Fire Authority’s website
Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s website
Civil defence and emergency management
The Ministry would like to determine how to best ensure that the Mōtītī community is able to respond to a natural disaster. The Ministry, on behalf of the Minister, must work with the Bay of Plenty civil defence and emergency management group to do this work and we welcome any ideas the people of Mōtītī may have. More information about the Bay of Plenty civil defence and emergency management group can be found on its website.
Bay of Plenty civil defence and emergency management group's website(opens in new tab)