Definitions of commonly used, surveying and planning terms

Dictionary of Definitions for commonly used planning and surveying terms

All the technical jargon used by surveyors and planning can become a little confusing. Below is a list of commonly used terms. Just click on the first letter of the term or scroll down through the terms listed below.

Please contact me should there be any additional terms you would find helpful to know about.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W

A	M
Abatement notice
Access strip	Maataitai
Acre	Mana whenua
Advice Note	Management plan
Affected Persons Approval	Mean High Water Mark
Allotment or Lot	Mean High Water Springs
Amalgamation Condition	Maori Land Plan
Amalgamation Covenant	Mineral
Amenity values	Mining
Appeal
Application Form
Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE)
	N

B	National policy statement
	National environmental standards
Bed of a river or lake	Natural and physical resources
Boma Survey	Natural hazard
Boundary Adjustment	Network utility operator
	New Zealand coastal policy statement
	non-complying activity
	Non-notified application
C	notice of decision

Cadastral Dataset
Certificate of Compliance
Certificate of Title	O
Climate Change
Coastal marine area	Object (to a condition)
Coastal permit	Occupier
Coastal water	occupy
Completion certificate	Owner
Compiled Plan
Computed Plan
Conditions
Consent authority	P
Consent notice
Controlled activity	Perches
Covenant	permitted activity
Cross lease (Flat Plans)	Permitted Baseline
	Policy statement
	Pre-hearing meeting
	Private road
D	Private way
	prohibited activity
Declaration	Proposed plan
Deeds Plan and Deeds System	Prospecting
Delegated Authority	public foreshore and seabed
Deposited Plan or DP	public notice
Designation	Publicly-notified application
Development Contribution
Discharge
Discharge permit
Discretionary activity	R
Discretionary Restricted Activity	Redefinition Survey
District	Recognised Customary activity
District plan	Region
District rule	Regional coastal plan
Dominant Tenement	Regional Council
	Regional plan
	Regional policy statement
	Regional rule
E	Requiring authority
	renewable energy
Easement	Resource consent
Easement Certificate	Restricted coastal activity
Easement in Gross	restricted discretionary activity
Easement Plan	Reverse Sensitivity
Enforcement Officer	Right of Way
Enforcement Order	River
Environment	Road
Environment Court	Roods
Esplanade reserve	Rule in a Plan
Esplanade strip
existing use certificate

	S

F	Scheme Plan
	Section
Fee Simple	Section 92 Request
Foreshore	Section 223 Certificate
foreshore and seabed reserve	Section 224c Certificate
	Section 226 application
	Section 348 certificate
	Servient Tenement
G	soil conservation
	Special tribunal
greenhouse gas	State highway
	Structure
	Subdivision
	Subdivision consent
H	subdivision of land
	Submission
Hazardous substances	Survey Approval
Headworks Fee	Survey Land District
Hectare (ha)	Survey Office Plan
Heritage order	Survey plan
Heritage protection authority	Survey Report
historic heritage
Hydrographic Survey

	T

I	Tangata whenua
	Taonga raranga
Industrial or trade premises	Tauranga waka
infrastructure	territorial authority
Interim enforcement order	Territorial sea
Intrinsic values	The Crown
Iwi authority	Tikanga Maori
	Title Plan
	Topographical Survey
	Transfer Document
J	Traverse and Traverse Sheets
	Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi)
joint management agreement


	U
K
	Unit
Kaitiakitanga	Unit plan



L	V

Lake	Variation
Land
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)
Land Transfer Plan or LT
Land use consent	W
Lease Plan
Licensed Cadastral Surveyor	Water
Limited as to Parcels	Water body
Limited as to Title	water conservation order
Limited-notified application	Water permit
Link	Wetland
Local authority	working day