The Plan was partially reviewed in 2024. This is the current version.
Tasman Nelson Regional Pest Management Plan 2019-2029.pdf (pdf 17 MB)
Hard copies of the Tasman-Nelson Regional Pest Management Plan 2019-2029 (partially reviewed 2024) can be viewed at any office or library of Tasman District Council and Nelson City Council.
Enquiries about the Plan should be addressed to the Biosecurity Co-ordinator.
Our partial review of the Tasman-Nelson Regional Pest Management Plan 2019-2029 was formalised in 2024, with Tasman District and Nelson City Councils adopting the recommendations of the amended plan at their respective Council meetings recently.
The partial review considered specific changes relating to the management of:
The bylaw changes came into effect from 1 December, 2024 and complies with the Biosecurity Act 1993.
The Plan will operate within the administrative boundaries of the Tasman-Nelson region and covers an area of 15,222 square kilometres (land) and 5513 square kilometres (sea)
Following early consultation with stakeholder groups, the proposed changes went out for public consultation in February 2024.
We received more than 100 individual submissions on a range of topics with hearings subsequently held in May.
In July, a Joint Committee deliberated and agreed on the recommendations to put up for adoption by the respective Councils.
The purpose of the Tasman-Nelson Regional Pest Management Plan 2019-2029 (the Plan, or RPMP) is to provide a framework for efficient and effective management or eradication of specified organisms in the Tasman-Nelson region to:
(a) minimise the actual or potential adverse or unintended effects associated with those organisms; and
(b) maximise the effectiveness of individual pest management action through a regionally co-ordinated approach.
There are many organisms currently in the Tasman-Nelson region, or which could potentially establish in the region, that are considered undesirable or a nuisance.
However, it is only where a subject is capable of causing an adverse effect in the region, where a coordinated approach would be more effective than voluntary and unplanned management, and where the benefits of a regional plan approach outweigh the costs of that plan, that regional intervention is warranted.
The Councils consider that, for some of these organisms, a pest management plan will add significant value to the region, by providing for the exclusion, eradication, and containment of pests, and other effective management of named organisms, such as reducing their effects and protecting special places from pests.
The Biosecurity Act 1993 (the Act) contains prerequisite criteria that needed to be met to justify such intervention. This Plan is the end stage of that process and identifies the organisms to be classified as pests and managed on a regional basis.
The Regional Pest Management Plan (the Plan) allows the two Councils to exercise the relevant advisory, service delivery, regulatory and funding provisions available under the Act to deliver the specific objectives identified in Part Two of the Plan: Pest Management (the framework, pest programmes and monitoring).
The Plan will operate within the administrative boundaries of the Tasman-Nelson region and covers an area of 15,222 square kilometres (land) and 5513 square kilometres (sea).
Boundaries of the tasman-Nelson Regional Pest Management Plan Administrative Area
The Plan takes effect on the date it becomes operative, under section 77(5) of the Act, and remains in force for a period of 10 years from that date 1 July 2019 to 30 April 2029.
It may cease at an earlier date in the unlikely event that the Councils declare by public notice that the Plan has achieved its purpose or it is revoked following a review.
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