B-6 – Area 6 – Assessment of Environmental Effects 114 7.6.2.1 Martha Mineral Zone Area 6 is entirely located within the Martha Mineral Zone. The sustainable utilisation of mineral resources is the key outcome for this zone. Associated policies seek to achieve this outcome by: recognising the development and processing areas of the mine, its ongoing rehabilitation and likely long term uses;197 provide for the social, economic and cultural wellbeing of the community and their health and safety;198 and ensuring amenity values of Waihi and the wider community are protected.199 Mining activities, including ancillary activities such as rock stacks, are anticipated within this zone. The activities within Area 6 are part of the wider WNP project. Sections 7.2 and 7.3 of the Overarching AEE provide an assessment of the social and economic effects (respectively) of the project and how it will support the social and economic wellbeing of the community. OGNZL continues to work with tangata whenua regarding cultural effects and how the Project can best provide for cultural wellbeing. The amenity values of the Waihi area and wider community are discussed with respect to noise, landscape values and air quality in Sections 5.9, 5.3 and 5.10 of this AEE. The mitigation measures described with respect to each section (and Section 6) are designed to ensure that the amenity values of the community are protected and maintained. Overall, the activities within Area 6 recognise and provide for the development and processing areas of the mine and the social, economic, cultural wellbeing of the community, while ensuring the amenity values of Waihi and the wider community are appropriately protected. 7.6.2.2 Indigenous Biodiversity and Significant Natural Areas The objectives and associated policies in Section 6.2 of the HDP seek the following outcomes: the protection of significant natural areas for the purpose of maintaining and enhancing their intrinsic, cultural and amenity values;200 197 Policy (a)(i), Section 5.17, Hauraki District Plan. 198 Policy (a)(ii), Section 5.17, Hauraki District Plan. 199 Policy (a)(iii), Section 5.17, Hauraki District Plan. 200 Objective 1, Section 6.2, Hauraki District Plan.
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