Pressures

• Number of resource or building consents applied for/granted within flood protection area

• Number of buildings within flood protection area

• Number of buildings within identified fire buffer

• Number of dwellings built on potentially unstable land (i.e. land classed as having a degree of erosion of 2 or greater and/or slopes of >20 degrees)

• Number of resource or building consent applications applied for/granted for development on potentially unstable land

State

• Number and severity of flood events annually

• Area of land subject to flooding

• Number and area affected by rural fires annually

• Area of vegetated and un-vegetated land classified as having a degree of erosion of 2 or greater

• Area of headwater catchment in vegetation

• Number and size of earthquakes recorded annually

• Annual damage ($) to public and private property

Response

• Area of land identified on planning maps being subject to flooding

• Amount of Council spending on resourcing rural fire fighting emergency services

• Area of land being identified on planning maps as being subject to land instability

• Number of resource and building consents declined in areas identified as being subject to flooding, fire or instability

• Council expenditure on educating community about hazards

• Number of fire-fighting emergencies