Service, light and heavy industry

The Riverlea Environment Society would like activity in the Riverlea Road industrial area to be confined to light and service industry, and to exclude to heavy industry, particularly noxious and offensive industry. We would also like to preserve its industrial and residential mix.

The Proposed District Plan has the following definitions:

Industrial activity: Means any industrial activity and includes:

a) All types of processing, manufacturing, bulk storage, warehousing, service and repair activities.

b) Laboratories and research facilities.

c) Trade and industry facilities, being premises accommodating specialised education and training facilities where groups of people are given trade or industry tuition and training on a formal basis.

Service industry: Means premises occupied by activities involving light manufacturing or the repair or servicing of goods of a light nature and includes repair of household appliances, electronic equipment assembly and servicing, craft manufacture and clothes manufacture. It does not include car repairs, furniture making and the like.

Light industry: Means manufacturing, storage, service and repair activities which do not involve the use of heavy machinery, are carried out indoors and are unlikely to give rise to significant adverse effects beyond the site and are generally of a small scale. They include printing works, furniture manufacture, car repairs, light engineering, tradesmen’s depots and the like.

There is no definition for heavy industry.

Note that any plan change would not require current businesses to change in any way. An ‘existing use’ rule would prevail, with the new rules applying only to new activities in the area, or significant changes to existing ones.

An easy submission for you to use

Please make a submission on the Proposed District Plan! The changes the Riverlea Environment Society will be requesting in our own, more detailed submission are more likely to be accepted if there is an indication of widespread support.

To make a submission with all the work done for you, click here to open up a semi-completed submission form. It is a submission that sends a broad message of support for keeping heavy industry out of the Riverlea industrial area.

It needs to be emailed to districtplan@hcc.govt.nz by 29th March (Good Friday). 

You'll need to fill out your details on page 1. The submission itself is on page 2. You can leave it as it is, or change it to whatever you want.

Getting started

If you're interested in how to go about making a submission to Hamilton City Council about the proposed district plan's effects on the Riverlea industrial area, you're in the right place. More information will be coming soon.

In the meantime, you can look at the proposed district plan by clicking here. The most pertinent chapter for us is chapter 9 Industrial Zone, especially section 9.3 Activity Status. There are plenty of codes here (P, RD, NC etc... click here for an explanation of what they stand for.)

This page tells you how to make an on-line submission and also has a link to a pdf page that you can print out to make a hard copy submission.

Also relevant are:

-  the maps: number 58A is the zoning map for the Riverlea area, and 58B is the features map.

- chapter 20 Natural Environments. It refers to Hamilton's Significant Natural Areas. They are listed here, and eight of them surround the Riverlea industrial area! (The Mangaonua gully and stream border the south side of Riverlea Road).