This document sets out Council’s approach to managing town centre parking for cars and other vehicles in
Motueka and Richmond.
It focuses on Motueka and Richmond because these are our largest urban areas and parking in these towns is under the greatest strain.
Read the Richmond Motueka town centre car parking strategy here (pdf 2.2 MB).
Delineation is a term used to describe elements that provide guidance to motorists using roads. Such elements include road markings, signage and raised pavement markings. The Road Delineation policy provides guidelines for the consistent use of road markings or devices.
View the Road Delineation Policy (pdf 888 KB)
The Council allows the grazing of livestock on road margins in rural areas to assist adjoining owners to control road margin vegetation.
In the case of Type 1 Unformed Roads these are often incorporated into an existing property.
If you have any queries regarding grazing the road margin, contact the Community Infrastructure team on 03 543 8400.
Every property requires an approved driveway (vehicle access crossing point) on to a legal road.
The location and standard of construction of a driveway will be specified by the road controlling authority (Tasman District Council) with an approved permit.
Driveway access can only be constructed by a Tasman District Council approved contractor.
For more information about driveways (vehicle access crossings), please contact the Community Infrastructure Department on 03 543 8400.
We understand that some residents have concerns about blind spots created when vehicles park on the road and ask us to install yellow no stopping lines to prevent this. The safety risk will vary from site-to-site so we need to consider and assess each one. The requests and our assessments are collected and presented to the Operations Committee. The Committee reviews this information and will approve some requests where appropriate.
Once approved, the new yellow no stopping yellow lines are listed in our Traffic Control Bylaw, so they can be legally enforced. Our contractors will then carry out the new line marking as part of their work programme.
If you have concerns about a street in your area and want no stopping lines to be considered, please email us with an explanation of your concern and a map or photo (if possible). We will contact you if any further information is required.
This section explains how roadside spraying and vegetation control is managed in Tasman region. We also give you details on how to be added to the 'No Spray' list.
Tasman District Council roading maintenance contractor is responsible for vegetation control within the road reserve.
This involves the use of non-residual chemical herbicides to knock down vegetation growing in the roadway and around street furniture. The active herbicides authorised under Council’s resource consent are norflurazon, oryzalin, simazine, terbuthylazine, glyphosate, metsulfuron, haloxyfop, triclopyr and picloram/triclopyr.
The contractor is also responsible for control of pest plants and other noxious weeds such as gorse, fennel, hemlock, blackberry, broom, bracken, purple pampas grass and box thorn.
Residents can request that their rural property frontage not be chemically sprayed and instead undertake the vegetation control themselves. On approval Council will mark the no spray area with red marker pegs.
You can complete this online application form to have your property included on the no spray database.
If you prefer, you can download a copy of the form below. The completed form should be sent to:
Attention: Technical Officer - Transportation
Tasman District Council, Private Bag 4, Richmond 7050.
You can also email the completed form here.
Rural residents who choose the no spray; option must control the vegetation growth along their property frontage to ensure road users are not impeded and all roadside signs and markers are clearly visible. Vegetation height should not exceed 300mm.
Any stormwater drainage ditches need to be kept clear of excess vegetation. At intersections vegetation must be kept well clear to ensure good sight lines for traffic using the intersection.
Contractors employed by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency undertake an ongoing vegetation control programme to ensure that roadside vegetation does not affect the safety or operation of the regions state highway network.
This programme includes the spraying of chemical herbicides including the following active ingredients: Glyphosate, Metsulfuron, Terbuthylazine and Triclopyr.
Persons wishing to register their property as a no-spray zone, which requires a commitment to maintain a property and highways frontage to specifications provided by Waka Kotahi, may do so by contacting:
Mitch Hutchings on 03 373 2036 or email Mitchell.hutchings@wsp.com.
If you wish to talk to someone at the Council about the no spray list, please contact the Community Infrastructure team on 03 543 8400.
The council manages the naming of streets throughout the District and endeavours to meet suggested names that are submitted by developers or residents. The use of Māori names is encouraged. Duplication of names within Tasman and Nelson City is discouraged.
Read more about the Road Naming Policy. (pdf 588 KB)
If you wish to apply to name a new road or rename an exisiting road, you can complete this online application form.
Any person or utility operator wishing to remove any trees in the road reserve irrespective of whether the trees have occurred naturally, planted by others or planted for street beautification purposes, shall require written permission, unless the Council agrees to remove the trees at its own cost for safety or genuine nuisance reasons.
The cost of removal, should permission be granted, shall generally be at the applicant's expense.
Where the need to remove the trees is associated with some form of development which will require consent then approval will be subject to all such consents being issued first.
Trees in Road Reserve - Policy (pdf 103 KB)
If you need more information about trees in the road reserve, contact the Community Infrastructure team on 03 543 8400.
