Other non 3 waters utility layers within Gisborne District Council. Includes electricity transmission lines, gas lines and state highways.

GDC stormwater drains managed by the GDC stormwater utilities team. These drains are separate from Rural drains which are managed by the GDC Rivers and Drainage team.

There are over 45 high profile recreational reserves in the Gisborne region, with the majority in Gisborne city. There are 44 playgrounds, 101 garden areas covering 8400 square metres and 6583 metres of paths and tracks. The parks and open spaces network includes public parks and reserves, sports grounds, cycle and walkways, coastal foreshore and beaches.

The land overlays are developed from amalgamated units from the land use capability (LUC) assessment of the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI) Gisborne East Coast Region, Second Edition, June 1999. In the NZLRI the maximum erosion severity has been assessed for each LUC unit and this is based on the geology, soil type, steepness, climate and vegetation cover. The land overlays comprise the following LUC units: Land Overlay 1 Classes I-IV and VIe1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8 inclusive, Land Overlay 2 Balance of Class VI, Land Overlay 3 (including 3A) Classes VII & VIII (see C7.1.5 for detailed units).

Erosion is the natural process of soil and rock wearing away and being moved through the landscape. Erosion includes sheet, wind, creep, slump, flow, rill, earthflow, gully, tunnel gully and stream erosion. In areas undisturbed by human activity, the rate of erosion is determined by geology and weather. Land uses, particularly those that reduce vegetation cover or disturb the soil can lead to a much faster rate of erosion. This is especially heightened in naturally unstable areas where even relatively minor landuse activities can have major impacts. Erosion that has been increased by human action is called induced or accelerated erosion and despite the voluntary erosion control efforts of many landowners and kaitiaki, this remains the major landuse issue in the district that also impacts on the district’s waterways and coastal seabed and key assets such as roading.

Locations of Gisborne District Council operated cemeteries throughout the Gisborne district.

Gisborne District Council maintains 12 cemeteries in the Gisborne district. The main cemetery is Taruheru Cemetery in Nelson Road.

There are a number of urupa and private cemeteries throughout Gisborne that are not maintained by Gisborne District Council and not included as part of this map service.

Gisborne land areas susceptible to liquefaction as identified in the Tonkin & Taylor Ltd sub-regional assessment of liquefaction vulnerability report in 2015. Gisborne land areas susceptible to liquefaction as identified in the Tonkin & Taylor Ltd sub-regional assessment of liquefaction vulnerability report in 2015.

Gisborne navigation layers as relating to the Navigation and Safety Bylaw 2012. Regional bylaws exist to ensure the safety of all water users and to reduce conflicts between the different water-based activities in an area.

Property rating and valuation assessments for the Gisborne district. Includes valuation, rating and property title details information. This data is maintained by Gisborne District Council and is updated monthly.

Gisborne District Council seeks to enhance Poverty Bay water quality through: A) Phased improvement over a period of time in the quality of wastewater discharge from the city outfall including monitoring and controlling the quality of trade wastes from commercial and industrial premises. B) Continued encouragement of on-site treatment of effluent prior to discharge particularly within the horticultural processing sector. C) Ongoing commitment to continued upgrading, where necessary, of infrastructure to manage the quality of urban run-off. D) Ongoing commitment to the management and improvement of rural run-off via strategies and via rules in the Tairāwhiti Plan

Through out the district there are a number of sites which have become contaminated as a result of the manufacture, use, storage and disposal of hazardous substances. Assessment of sites throughout the District which have been associated with hazardous substances has been undertaken. This has resulted in the identification of sites with known levels of contamination. The contaminated sites within the Gisborne district are identified on the Urban and Rural planning maps and listed in Appendix 15. Identification of sites in the Gisborne district which are contaminated is an ongoing exercise. Additional sites which are verified as contaminated sites will be identified as such through a plan change process.

Contaminated sites are those sites where hazardous substances occur at concentrations above background levels and where assessment indicates it poses or could potentially pose an immediate or long-term hazard to human health or to the environment. Contaminated sites may cause actual or potential harm to human health or the environment when the contaminant on the site becomes exposed to an organism or natural or physical resource which is sensitive to the adverse effects of the contaminant. Exposure to contaminants may occur on the site of contamination and/or as a result of contamination being discharged off the site.

Location of the Gisborne natural gas pipeline as identified in the Tairawhiti Resource Management Plan.

Planning zones manage how different areas are used, developed and protected. All land within the Gisborne region has an underlying planning zone. The Gisborne region has 5 main zoning types: Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Rural and reserves. For more information visit the Tairawhiti Resource Management Plan.

Gisborne district has a wealth of heritage both pre and post European contact. This resource provides an identity unique to the people of the Gisborne district and should be recognized and protected. The management of our heritage implies a duty of care and responsibility to pass it on to future generations with the least possible loss.

The Tairahwiti Resource Management Plan sets out noise limits for port noise that apply to both ‘essential’ and ‘non-essential’ port activities. The rules regime sets out ‘long term’ and ‘short term’ noise emission limits that apply within the receiving environment around the port. Many of the activities envisaged in the Port Management Zones are of an industrial nature and while the operation of the Port should not be retarded satisfactory controls need to be in place to ensure that there is suitable screening between sensitive activities. Noise from Port operations has the potential to impact on adjoining residential areas with the consequent loss of amenity or in extreme cases potential adverse health effects

For more information view the supporting documentationDownload the data from ArcGIS OnlineGisborne District Council (GDC) requested Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research (MWLR) produce morphometric landslide-to-stream connectivity layers for rainfall-induced shallow landslides to support future land use planning in the region.The morphometric connectivity layers represent the spatial probability of runout from a shallow landslide reaching the stream network. These layers are based on statistical models developed by MWLR as part of the Smarter Targeting of Erosion Control (STEC) MBIE Endeavour program. Initial work by Spiekermann et al. (2022) described an earlier version of the model. Subsequently, this modelling approach has been further developed using an expanded landslide dataset (Tsyplenkov et al. 2023).In July 2024, GDC contracted MWLR to produce an update to the landslide connectivity layers that incorporated the gully spatial data. This new work involved:including the mapped gullies as part of the digital channel network and updating the landslide-to-stream connectivity modelling to incorporate gullies as a ‘target’adding the mapped gully features to the updated class-based raster layer and showing gullies as a separate class

Gisborne properties that may require authority from Heritage New Zealand before undertaking any work where land disturbance is involved. This information is referenced in the Tairawhiti Resource Management Plan.

Archaeological locations, buffers, areas and waahi tapu sites within the Gisborne district as identified in the Tairawhiti Resource Management Plan. Gisborne district has a wealth of heritage both pre and post European contact. This resource provides an identity unique to the people of the Gisborne district and should be recognised and protected. The management of our heritage implies a duty of care and responsibility to pass it on to future generations with the least possible loss. The cultural heritage resource consists of the following: • Archaeological sites (pre and post European contact). • Waahi tapu and waahi tapu areas (pre and post European contact). • Heritage buildings, places and precincts (post European contact). The tools for recognition and protection of cultural heritage are primarily: • a predictive model of human settlement (a heritage alert overlay), accompanied by: • a schedule of archaeological sites obtained from a variety of sources including: o Heritage New Zealand Register of Archaeological Sites. o New Zealand Archaeological Association (NZAA) database of recorded archaeological sites and from information obtained from privately commissioned archaeological surveys. • a waahi tapu and waahi tapu area schedule; and • a schedule of post European contact historic areas, places and precincts including a Central Business District Schedule. There is a responsibility to record the past for the benefit of future generations. It cannot be achieved alone but should be a community effort with particular emphasis placed on finding the balance between legitimate use of land by landowners and the protection and enhancement of the community heritage resource. The benefits can be considerable and long term particularly in respect of education, cultural and spiritual stability, social well-being, community identity and the efficient use of resources. Cultural heritage (issues, objectives, policies) are also discussed in the RPS, Part B7 which should be referred to in conjunction with this section

The Tairahwiti Resource Management Plan sets out noise limits for port noise that apply to both ‘essential’ and ‘non-essential’ port activities. The rules regime sets out ‘long term’ and ‘short term’ noise emission limits that apply within the receiving environment around the port. Many of the activities envisaged in the Port Management Zones are of an industrial nature and while the operation of the Port should not be retarded satisfactory controls need to be in place to ensure that there is suitable screening between sensitive activities. Noise from Port operations has the potential to impact on adjoining residential areas with the consequent loss of amenity or in extreme cases potential adverse health effects

Electricity transmission network for the Gisborne district as identified in the Tairawhiti Resource Management Plan. Includes 50kv and 110 kv lines.