Land Use Futures Board

The Land Use Futures (LUF) Board is an independent group of Rotorua lakes landowners and stakeholders appointed by the Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group in 2007. 

The primary purpose of the Land Use Futures Board is to give leadership to and advise on implementing sustainable land use management and change in the Rotorua Lakes catchments. 

Land use change and sustainable management will help achieve the land-based component of nutrient reduction targets defined through various lake action plans.  Sustainability includes the economic, social, cultural and environmental well being of a community. 

Environment Bay of Plenty provides in-kind support towards the Board.

• Terms of Reference (38KB, doc)

Members

• Bill Cleghorn - Chairman Land Use Futures Board
• Tom Walters - Te Arawa Federation of Māori Authorities
• Roku Mihinui - Chief Executive Officer, Te Arawa Lakes Trust
• Neil Heather
• Tina Ngatai - Kaiwhakahaere a rohe, Maori Trust Office Waiariki
• Warwick Murray - Group Manager Land Management, Environment Bay of Plenty
• Dr. Nick Edgar - CEO, NZ Landcare Trust
• Peter Guerin - Chief Executive, Rotorua District Council
• John Ford - Highlands Station
• Mike Bramley - Environment Extension Specialist, DairyNZ
• Chris Sutton 
• Kit Richards - Forestry industry representative, PF Olsen Ltd
• Stuart Morrison
• Barnett Vercoe - Onuku Maori Lands Trust
• Lee Matheson - Perrin Ag Consultants Ltd

Other contact:
Greg Corbett - Manager Land Resources (Rotorua), Environment Bay of Plenty

Agendas and Minutes

2010

• 4 August 2010 (859KB, pdf)
• 14 July 2010 (200KB, pdf)
• 9 June 2010 (370KB, pdf)
• 12 May 2010 (167KB, pdf)
• 14 April 2010 (265KB, pdf)
• 10 March 2010 (1.2MB, pdf)
• 10 February 2010 (72KB, pdf)

2009

• 11 February 2009 (522KB, pdf)
• 11 March 2009 (809KB, pdf)
• 17 April 2009 (74KB, pdf)
• 13 May 2009 (136KB, pdf)
• 10 June 2009 (215KB, pdf)
• 8 July 2009 (109KB, pdf)
• 12 August 2009 (50KB, pdf)
• 9 September 2009 (63KB, pdf)
• 14 October 2009 (213KB, pdf)
• 11 November 2009 (494KB, pdf)
• 9 December 2009 (205KB, pdf)

Reports and Presentations

Reports sent to Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group (RTALSG)

• June 2008 - Report (75KB, doc)
• November 2008 - Recommentations for Regional Policy Statement and Rotorua District Plan Review (99KB, doc)
• November 2008 - Research Recommendations (26KB, doc)
• March 2009 - Report (356KB, doc)
• June 2009 - Summary of Recommendations (42KB, doc)
• October 2009 - Report for Strategy Group requesting new board member (67.5, doc)
• June 2010 - Recommendations paper on Maori land utilisation (40KB, pdf)

2010 Reports and Presentations

• February - Presentation - Draft Next Bay of Plenty Regional Policy Statement (1MB, pdf), Anna Heap and Martin Butler
• May - Presentation - Land Use Change (1MB, pdf) Ben Banks
• May - Presentation - Lake Restoration Projects (740KB, pdf) Andy Bruere
• May - Presentation - Rotorua District Plan (1.7MB, pdf) Nigel Wharton
• July - Presentation - Rotorua District and Lake Rotorua Catchment Collective (409KB, pdf) Denis Collins, DairyNZ
• July - Presentation - Rule 11 Land Value Implications (175KB, doc) Martyn Craven, Reid & Reynolds Ltd
• July - Presentation - Scion presents Acres (434KB, doc) James Turner and Jeremy Snook, SCION 
• August 2010 - Presentation by Graeme Fleming - Lake Taupo Protection Trust to Rotorua Land Futures Board
• August 2010 - Presentation slides by Ann Nicholas - Sigma Consulting to RTALSG
• August 2010 - Analysis of the Land Use Futures Board Strategy and Position Papers (246KB, doc) Sigma Consultants - as discussed at RTALSG 23 July 2010
• August 2010 - Lake Rotorua Catchment Land Use Change Interventions – presentation of Potential Agency Models (233KB, pdf) by APR Consultatnts to RTALSG on 23 July 2010
• August 2010 - Opportunities to sustain Green farming - comparing impacts of water quality regulations in two catchments - Lake Taupo and Tomales Bay, California (499KB, pdf)  Sheila Barry, AgResearch

2009 Reports and Presentations

• February - Presentation - Introduction to alternative crops and land evaluation (990KB, pdf), Simon Park
• March - Report - RDC District Plan Land Use Options (53KB, doc), Nigel Wharton
• March - Presentation - Finding 170 TN (640KB, pdf), Simon Park
• April - Workshop Report (64KB, doc), Helen Ritchie
• April - Notes from LUF Landowners Meeting (65KB, doc)
• May - Presentation - Ecosystem services and thinking about natures benefits (3.4MB, pdf), Brent Clothier and Alec Mackay, SLURI
• May - Presentation - Defining Nitrogen loss limits within a water management zone using the natural capital of the land (457KB, pdf), SLURI
• May - Presentation - National Captial of New Zealand Soils (1.1MB, pdf)
• May - Presentation - What Next review of presentations (46KB, pdf), Alec Mackay and Brent Clothier, SLURI
• June - Presentation - David Hamilton Water Quality TAG (4MB, pdf)
• June - Presentation - Kit Rutherford Water Quality TAG (500KB, pdf)
• December - Presentation - Options for the Allocation of Nutrients Discharge Rights (304KB, doc) Tony Fenton, Alchemists Ltd

2008 Reports and Presentations

• August - Report - by Maori Trustee Te Arawa Lakes Trust and Te Arawa Federation of Maori Authorities (68KB, doc)
• October - Submission by Gifford McFadden, President Rotorua/Taupo Federated Farmers recommendations and issues (158KB, tif)
• October - Presentation - Review of research on practices to reduce N and P (218KB, pdf)
• October - Report - Review of research on practives to reduce N and P loss from farms in Rotorua Lakes Catchments (369KB, doc), Helen Ritchie
• November - Tabled item - Nitrogen loss diagram (52KB, pdf)
• November - Tabled Item - Phosphorus loss diagram (51KB, pdf)
• December - Report - Framework for a way forward (245KB, doc), Helen Ritchie
• December - Report - Using transferable development rights to reduce diffuse nutrient flows to lakes from farms (60KB, doc), Nigel Wharton

 Other information

Motu Information and video links for Rotorua lakes - Exploring nutrient trading as a mechanism for allocating a scarece resource - a reduced total N export from the catchment