The current version was updated to include reference to the housing bottom lines for the Wellington Tier 1 urban environment, as required by the National Policy Statement on Urban Development 2020. Find out more about the insertion of housing bottom lines into the operational Regional Policy Statement.

This Regional Policy Statement for the Wellington Region was prepared by the Wellington Regional Council under section 60 and Schedule 1 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (the Act).

At its meeting of 26 February 2013, the Wellington Regional Council approved that this Regional Policy Statement be made operative pursuant to clause 17 of Schedule 1 of the Act. This Regional Policy Statement became operative on 24 April 2013.