Exercising your dog

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This map shows you:

Where you can exercise your dog OFF the leash (Controlled Dog Exercise Areas - green icons)
Where you can only exercise your dog ON the leash (Leash Controlled Areas - blue icons)
Where you can't exercise your dog (Dogs Prohibited at all times - red icons)
Where you can sometimes exercise your dog (Dogs Prohibited in Summer or other times - purple icons)

This brochure also tells you more about the rules.

Dog Exercise Areas In Tasman District (pdf 835 KB)

Basic rules for walking your dog

Dog faeces must be removed immediately and hygienically disposed of. Doggie Doo bags are available free of charge from all Council offices and in dispensers around the district.

Your dog must respond to voice commands, hand signals or other effective means of control when off the leash.

Under our dog bylaw, there are certain places and times when dogs are not permitted during the summer months, 1 December to 1 March. They are:

All sports fields and within 10 metres of playground equipment and picnic tables
Collingwood Camping Ground.
Pākawau Beach – camp frontage.
Tukurua Beach.
Patons Rock Beach in front of the settlement.
Tata Beach – from sunset to 8.30 am, and between 20 December and 20 January between 10.00 am and 5.00 pm.
Ligar Bay Beach except between 5.00 am and 9.00 am.
Little Kaiteriteri Beach except between 5.00 am and 9.00 am.
Stephens Bay Beach except between 5.00 am and 9.00 am.
Pōhara Beach – from the eastern camp boundary to Selwyn Street Reserve.

Dogs are prohibited on all Council sports fields and complexes, and within 10 metres of playground equipment and picnic tables. Dogs are also prohibited in the specific areas indicated on the Dog Exercise Areas map.

Additional restrictions - Abel Tasman Foreshore Scenic Reserve

Please note that a separate bylaw governs the Abel Tasman Foreshore Scenic Reserve, and dogs are prohibited - with a very few exceptions.

View section 9 of the Bylaw on the DOC website for full details.

Definitions

For the areas that are prohibited "in Summer", we mean from 1 December to 1 March.

Exception to dog prohibited areas

This prohibition of dogs from specified areas does not apply to game hunting dogs engaged in legitimate hunting activities during the recognised hunting season.