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Resource Management
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High Country Tenure Review
Under the Crown Pastoral Lands Act, farmers can decide to have their lease reviewed through a process called tenure review. Under this process, land of conservation value is meant to be transferred to Department of Conservation management while land ‘capable of economic use’ is freeholded to the farmer. Unfortunately, land of economic value is also sometimes important for conservation. This land is being privatised along with land that has important landscape values.
The Mt Burke tenure review in 2003 resulted in the privatisation of 35 km of Wanaka lakeside land. The tenure review process is not adequately protecting lower-level high country land with high conservation and landscape values where there are competing economic uses.
Rising land and lease prices are also making it hard for the Government to buy out a lessees interest in conservation land and encouraging subdivision.
This page was updated on 20 September, 2006 |  |
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Most
of the farmed high country is Crown owned and leased to farmers on a 33-year
term, with a perpetual right of renewal. A lease gives to a farmer the rights
to graze stock, and control public access. Leaseholders need government permission
before undertaking more substantial developments.
