Community involvement

Regional Bylaws

Community involvement– Selwyn-Te Waihora

Members of the community are actively encouraged to participate in discussions during the Planning process.

The limit setting process is based on modelling a series of land use scenarios to determine their environmental, cultural, economic and social consequences. A multi stakeholder deliberation process using the priority outcomes and associated indicators in the Zone Implementation Programme (ZIP) will inform the Zone Committee (ZC) of the acceptability of these consequences and any issues that may arise.

Community engagement

The Selwyn Waihora limit setting project relies on the involvement of a number of key groups.

The Selwyn Waihora Zone Committee is recognised as the core group responsible for recommending limits within their zone. They will direct and contribute to the limit setting process in a number of ways:

The scenarios will be informed by the priority outcomes and recommended actions identified in the Zone Implementation Programme.
Zone Committee members will champion and oversee a series of focus groups with stakeholders from the zone. The Zone Committee will listen to and explore the thoughts and values of participants in the focus groups as they deliberate the various scenarios.
The Zone Committee will then utilise the information obtained through the modelling and Focus Group deliberations and have a formal dialogue around limits.
Recommendations on limits and mechanisms to achieve these limits will be made to the Co-Governance Board and Environment Canterbury Commissioners.

Tangata Whenua will be actively involved in the process at all levels

Through the Te Waihora Co-Governance Group functions
As members of the Zone Committee
Participation as a focus group
Through a COMAR (Cultural Opportunities Mapping Assessment and Response) analysis, involving all Rūnanga

Focus groups will be established to undertake deliberations for each scenario. This involves each focus group placing a weighting on the community priority outcomes and associated indicators developed in the ZIP and assessing the acceptability of each scenario against these. This will inform the ZC of the acceptability of each scenario and will assist the ZC in making recommendations around quality and quantity limits. See the pdf below for the list of current focus group members. A 'coordinator' for each group has been nominated and are available to answer questions members of the community may have about the process (see table below). Alternatively you can contact Environment Canterbury staff members listed on the 'Introduction' page.

Focus Group Coordinators
Rūnanga
Peter Ramsden	Koukourārata	peter.ramsden@ecan.govt.nz
Irrigation
Paul Reese	Irrigation NZ, Farmer	preese@irrigationnz.co.nz
Dairy
James Ryan	DairyNZ	james.ryan@dairynz.co.nz
Arable / Hort / Viticulture
David Hadfield	HortNZ, Farmer	dhadfield@srchch.co.nz
Sheep and Beef
Richard Friedman		ignatz@farmside.co.nz
Rural professionals
Lionel Hume	Federated Farmers	lhume@fedfarm.org.nz
Rural Women
Lorraine Sheen	Rural Women	sheen@xtra.co.nz
Environment
Chris Todd	Royal NZ Forest and Bird	c.todd@forestandbird.org.nz
Recreation
Tony Hawker	Fish and Game	thawker@fishandgame.org.nz
Commercial / Tourism / energy
Hamish Rennie		Hamish.rennie@lincoln.ac.nz
Education
Adrienne Lomax	WET Community Education	manager@wet.org.nz
Health / Local Authorities
Andrew Mactier	Selwyn District Council	andrew.mactier@selwyn.govt.nz
Community Boards and Township Committees
Ian Chatterton		chattertoniml@xtra.co.nz

Focus Group Participants (pdf 213 kB)

See the DRAFT Engagement Plan (pdf 221 kB) for more detail on how it is anticipated that these key groups will participate in the process.

Workshops

Initial workshops with the Zone Committee and Focus Groups took place in December 2011. The aims were to introduce the timeline and process for developing water quality and quantity limits in 2012 and discuss the roles of the Zone Committee and Focus Groups. Feedback was sought and received on draft land use scenarios to be modelled for their consequences on environmental, social, economic and cultural values. Further workshops are planned for 2012.

Table of Zone Committee meetings and Focus Group workshop dates 2012

Date	Who	Topic
12 July	FG	Deliberate Scenario 2 + bolt-on
2 August	FG	CANCELLED
16 August	FG	Review all scenarios / present draft “solutions package”
28 August	FG / ZC	Deliberate draft “solutions package”
30 August	FG	CANCELLED
18 September	FG / ZC	Deliberate draft “solutions package” (Iteration 1)
25 October	FG / ZC	POSTPONED
8 November	ZC / FG	POSTPONED
November	ZC/CRC/FG	TBC
4 December	FG / ZC	TBC

Zone Committee workshop #1 (14th Dec 2011)

Workshop summary (198 kB)

Presentations:

Engagement plan and deliberation process - Julia Crossman and Liz Wedderburn (1.6 MB)
Evaluation of the Hurunui land use and water quality project - Bruce Small (1.2 MB)
Setting limits for Selwyn Te Waihora - Alastair Picken (2.95 MB)
Scenarios and assumptions - Melissa Robson (68 kB)
Setting the scene - Ned Norton (1.7 MB)
Technical workstream - Melissa Robson (6 MB)
Drawing upon the Hurunui ZC experience - Te Marino Lenihan and John Faulkner (60 kB)
The planning framework - Peter Constantine and Tami Woods (2 MB)

Focus Group workshop #1 (15th December 2011)

Workshop summary (207 kB)

Presentations:

Welcome and introduction from Zone Committee - David Painter (6.8 MB)
Introduction to limit setting process - Alastair Picken (3.2 MB)
LUWQ Preferred Approach - Ian Brown (1 MB)
Scenarios and assumptions - Melissa Robson (159 kB)
Setting the scene - Ned Norton (1.3 kB)
The limit setting process - Alastair Picken, Melissa Robson, Julia Crossman, Liz Wedderburn (4.8 MB)

Papers presented to the Selwyn Waihora Zone Committee on the limit setting process in 2012 can be found on the Zone Committee web pages under ‘Reports and Presentations’