An encroachment is an unauthorised occupation, development or use of Council administered land for private benefit, eg someone who has a property adjoining a reserve using part of the reserve for their vege garden.

Council is focussing on coastal encroachments between Papamoa and Mauao.  The Council's target is to resolve 20 coastal encroachments per year, starting at the far end of Papamoa and working back up the coast towards the Mount. 

In the 2009-2010 year 35 encroachments were resolved, largely thanks to the cooperation of the residents in Karewa Parade.  Over 140 cubic metres of rubbish, wood, concrete and weeds were removed from the conservation zone, and 20,000 new dune plants put in between Marjorie Lane and Motiti Reserve. 

The 2010 - 2011 season eliminated 39 encroachments in the Taylor Rd and Motiti Rd area. Simular amounts of rubbish was removed  from Karewa Parade. Over 22,000 plants replaced the rubbish, encroachments and weeds. This year, 2012, we are continuing to move up the coast and will complete to the middle of Sunbrae Grove. 

If your property is identified as having an encroachment, when a LIM report is completed the encroachment will be identified in that report.

View Council's Encroachment Policy