Designation

Designations are created to give notice to the community that a requiring authority (limited to a Minister of the Crown; a local authority; or a network utility operator approved as a requiring authority under section 167) intends to use the land for a particular use. Development within the designation will require an outline plan subject to Section 176A unless otherwise exempt under the same section. Generally, designations relating to roading are extracted from CAD design. This may or may not align with parcel boundaries -
it depends on the organisation that lodged the designation. Parcel boundaries are regularly updated, this results in a shift in the cadastre. If the designation is lodged and described by cadastre boundaries (usually sites for infrastructure, water reservoirs or transmission stations) the designation should follow the designation shift. Roading designations are usually from surveys and depict road widths relative to the centreline, ie. not usually described in terms of the cadastre boundary. Relates to the implementation of the District Plan under the Resource Management Act (1991), and may be subject to various limitations and conditions. These features are a spatial representation of the policies and objectives of the Waikato District Plan and indicate where policies, overlays and District Plan rules apply.