Resources and useful links

Underpinning the strategy development is our early work which was to understand the risks presented by coastal erosion and coastal inundation. These reports show the challenges faced by coastal communities. 

Two technical reports were prepared and tested with community members before being confirmed:  

• Coastal Hazard Assessment (May 2016)
• Coastal Risk Assessment (May 2016)

The Hazard Assessment work has been mapped; you can access it on Hawke's Bay Regional Council's: Hazard portal.

Stage 2 focused on developing an approach for responding. This was largely an internal design phase that paved the way for Stage 3.

The Ministry for the Environment provided guidance on how climate change could affect our region, now and in the future, based on the latest scientific information. This includes a 10-step process to assess the risks and determine what actions to take.

Read the updated version of this guidance (2024) 

The Northern and Southern Assessment Cell Evaluation Panels were formed to complete Stage 3 of the Clifton to Tangoio Coastal Hazards Strategy 2120.

Formed by community, mana whenua, business and government representatives, the Assessment Panels commenced their work on 31 January 2017. Their task was to consider what we now know about coastal hazards risks, and through a facilitated process develop informed recommendations on responses to those risks

You can access the Panels’ process and recommendations in the full report

The Appendices, including the Panel membership list, Terms of Reference, community engagement, and minutes of meetings will be available in the archives soon.  

In Stage 4, the Joint Committee and Councils responded to the recommendations of the Assessment Panels. 
The Councils established workstreams to work out how to put the recommendations into action. Key outcomes from these workstreams are noted below. 

Mātauranga Māori 

Three cultural values frameworks for specific areas of the coastline are in development to guide and inform Strategy development and implementation, in partnership with Tamatea Pōkai Whenua, Mana Ahuriri, and Maugnaharuru-Tangitū Trust.

Funding 

This report considered which local authority is best placed to lead and fund coastal hazard projects under the Strategy:

• Raynor Asher funding review 

Design 

Two reports were developed by HBRC to develop further detail on the options recommended by the Assessment Panels:

• Short-term concept design and costing
• Short-term concept design and costing (Pandora unit)

Coastal Ecology 

This report recommends coastal marine ecology monitoring to address identified information and knowledge gaps and to support future work under the Strategy:

• Hawke's Bay Coastal Hazards Monitoring Plan (Sep 2023)

Managed/Planned Retreat

This report provides guidance on what planned retreat might look like as an alternative to the recommended pathways developed by the Assessment Panels. In other words, what would need to be retreated, by when, and at what cost, if nothing else was done to increase resilience to coastal hazards:

• Implementation approaches and indicative costs for planned retreat

Thresholds 

This report presents the outcome of community workshops to develop proposed adaptation thresholds in support of the recommended pathways developed by the Assessment Panels:

• Adaptation Thresholds Development report

Draft Proposed Strategy 

In August 2024, the Joint Committee confirmed and adopted a draft proposed Strategy, informed by these workstreams and underpinned by the Assessment Panels' recommendations. The Regional Council are in the process of considering this report:

• Clifton to Tangoio Coastal Hazards Strategy (Proposed)