Federated Farmers submission on the Draft Environment Southland Regional Policy Statement 2012
In general, Federated Farmers seeks a planning framework that acknowledges there is a strong responsibility on landowners to manage any effects of their activities on the environment, while at the same time not seeking to burden the region with unnecessary compliance and/or without councils trying to impose or implement plans that aim to prescribe farming or land use methods and manage activities in preference or by default to manage the potential effects of those activities. Federated Farmers feels strongly that a regulatory framework that allows for on-farm innovation, flexibility in land use and supports a strong stewardship ethic will lead to increasingly better outcomes.
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