Land Use Futures Board

The Land Use Futures (LUF) Board is an independent group of Rotorua lakes landowners and stakeholders appointed by the Rotorua 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

• Richard Vallance - 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
• Jessie Chan - Environment Strategy Manager, Meat & Wool New Zealand
• Peter Guerin - Chief Executive, Rotorua District Council
• John Ford - Highlands Station
• Penny Nelson - Regional Policy Manager, DairyNZ
• Chris Sutton 
• Kit Richards - Forestry industry representative, PF Olsen Ltd
• Stuart Morrison
• Bill Cleghorn

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

Agendas and Minutes

• 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)

Reports and Presentations

Reports sent to Rotorua Lakes Strategy Group (RLSG)

• 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)

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)

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 mchanism for allocating a scarece resource - a reduced total N export from the catchment