A Permitted Activity rule outlines conditions that must be met to operate without a consent. If your activity meets all of those conditions, you don’t need council authorisation, and are not required to notify us of the activity. By answering all of the questions below, you can determine whether intensive winter grazing would be a permitted activity on your farm, or whether you would need a resource consent.
Answer the questions below, to determine whether intensive winter grazing would be a permitted activity on your farm, or whether you would need a resource consent.
- Was intensive winter grazing carried out on your farm between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2019?
- Is the total area used for IWG for any season no more than the maximum area used between the above dates?
- Does the total area of intensive winter grazing on your farm meet the following limits:
a) For a farm 500ha or less, the maximum area of IWG is 50ha?
b) For a farm larger than 500ha, is the maximum area of IWG 10% of the property size? - Is the slope of land under winter crop 10 degrees or less measured over any 20 m distance?
- Are all critical source areas within or nearby the winter grazing area protected, ungrazed, uncultivated and unharvested over the winter grazing months?
- Are livestock kept at least five metres away from the bed of any river, lake, wetland or drain, regardless of if there is water present at the time?
- Will you take all reasonably practicable steps to minimise adverse effects from pugging and ensure vegetation is established as ground cover over the whole area of that land as soon as practicable after grazing?
If you answered No to ANY of these questions, a resource consent will be required for intensive winter grazing on your farm.
If you answered YES to ALL of these questions, then you can practice intensive winter grazing as a Permitted Activity.