Hutt City Council District Plan effective 23 September 2025. Not all information is visible at small scales. You may need to zoom in to see all relevant information. Due to their complexity some natural hazard overlays are not shown by default – use the layer list to show natural hazard overlays, or if you are accessing the district plan through Open Data you must include the three hazard layers shown below. Coastal Hazard Overlay Tsunami | Hutt City Council Open Data (arcgis.com) Flood Hazard Overlay | Hutt City Council Open Data (arcgis.com) Coastal Hazard Overlay Inundation | Hutt City Council Open Data (arcgis.com) If you are accessing the district plan maps through ArcGIS Online, you must include the three hazard layers shown below. Coastal Hazard Overlay _ Inundation - Overview (arcgis.com) Flood Hazard Overlay - Overview (arcgis.com) Coastal Hazard Overlay _ Tsunami - Overview (arcgis.com)

This dataset represents the ‘Authoritative’ Hutt City District Plan layers. It is a copy of the of the datasets extracted from the Hutt City Council spatial Database. Layers prefixed with ODP form part of the official Hutt City District Plan printed and WEB display. Those prefixed with ADP are additionally displayable layers that assist in the interpretation of the Hutt City District Plan display. All enquiries regarding interpretation of these layers should be directed to the Hutt City Environmental Policy Team.

The District Plan is the main document that manages land use and development within Upper Hutt. It contains rules that may affect you if you are preparing a land use proposal or development. See the section ‘About the District Plan’ for more information.The District Plan is made up of five parts:Part 1 – IntroductionProvides an explanation on how the Plan is set out and how to use it. It also contains information on how the Plan is administered, the provisions that apply to the processing of resource consents, the designation of land, monitoring and review of the Plan, and the definitions of a number of terms and words used in the Plan.Part 2 – Issues, Objectives, Policies, Methods, and General RulesAll of the land in the Upper Hutt district is zoned according to the type of environmental outcome sought for each particular area. Part 2 of the plan sets out the different zones in the district and how actual and potential adverse effects of activities on the environment will be managed. Chapters 4 to 8 of the District Plan deal specifically with the Residential, Rural, Business, Open Space and Special Activities zones. Chapter 8A contains General Rules. Chapters 9 to 17 deal with matters which are city-wide.Part 3 – Rules and StandardsPart 3 specifies the rules and standards for each zone and those which are city wide. Chapters 18 to 22 provide the rules and standards for activities within the Residential, Rural Business, Open Space and Special Activities zones. Chapters 23 to 34 provide the general and city wide rules and standards.Part 4 – AppendicesProvides the list of designations which appear on the Planning Maps, the list of roads and streets in Upper Hutt and their status in the roading hierarchy, and provides detailed design standards and criteria for the operation on an access rule in Chapters 18 to 22.Part 5 – Planning MapsProvides the zoning for each property within the city. They also identify designations, heritage features, faults, notable trees, protected ridgelines, rivers/streams and flood hazard areas.The District Plan is available online by clicking here.

Hutt City Council District Plan effective 23 September 2025. Not all information is visible at small scales. You may need to zoom in to see all relevant information. Due to their complexity some natural hazard overlays are not shown by default – use the layer list to show natural hazard overlays, or if you are accessing the district plan through Open Data you must include the three hazard layers shown below. Coastal Hazard Overlay Tsunami | Hutt City Council Open Data (arcgis.com) Flood Hazard Overlay | Hutt City Council Open Data (arcgis.com) Coastal Hazard Overlay Inundation | Hutt City Council Open Data (arcgis.com) If you are accessing the district plan maps through ArcGIS Online, you must include the three hazard layers shown below. Coastal Hazard Overlay _ Inundation - Overview (arcgis.com) Flood Hazard Overlay - Overview (arcgis.com) Coastal Hazard Overlay _ Tsunami - Overview (arcgis.com)