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15 Definitions - Definitions5

 

 

"Landcare Plan" means a management plan for a farm that is implemented by the land owner/manager. The plan may include, but is not limited to, the sustainable management of stocking rates, fertiliser/pesticides, offal holes/dumps, spraying and buffer zones, trees and riparian planting. Such plans will take into account the requirements of the Waikato Regional Council and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

 

"Light Industry" means manufacturing, preparation, service, repair or storage of goods or produce for sale, service or rent which does not use heavy machinery, does not require an air discharge consent, is carried out indoors apart from parking, essential manoeurvring and outdoor storage and is unlikely to give rise to adverse off-site effects. Light industry includes activities such as clothing or footwear manufacturing, printing, light engineering, car repairs, trademan’s depots, and shall be of a small scale and shall not be located on the street front of a specified “Shopping Frontage”

 

“Litter Poultry Farming” means intensive poultry (fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys, or similar domesticated birds) farming which;

  • Has or requires no dependency on the quality of the soils naturally occurring on the site; and
  • Has buildings for the housing or growth of poultry.

 

"Lot" shall have the same meaning as "allotment" in Section 218 of the Act and shall include lots that relate to land parcel type allotments (not building type allotments), and include:

  1. fee simple parcels
  2. land leases of the type requiring subdivision consent, to parts of fee simple parcels,
  3. convenant areas for cross lease allotments,
  4. land accessory units and "polygonal units", and
  5. any land attached to or part of licences within the meaning of Part V11A Land Transfer Act 1952.

 

For the avoidance of doubt any new lot created shall comply with the minimum standards set down in Section 6, Subdivision, except where such land comprises:

  1. Public Reserve
  2. Road reserve or road severances
  3. Land which is to be compulsorily amalgamated with adjoining land.

 

"Medical Facilities" means professional facilities for medical, dental or scientific activities and includes medical centres, community health services, paramedical centres, consulting rooms and diagnostic and other laboratories, hospitals, and hospices.

 

"Mineral Prospecting and Exploration" shall have the same meaning as “prospecting” and “exploration” in section 2 of the Resource Management Act 1991 and section 2 of the Crown Minerals Act 1991.