Intensive winter grazing 2024
Deemed permitted activity
Note: to apply for a resource consent online you will need to be a registered user with My Environment Southland. Not signed up with us? Click the ‘Log In’ button at the top of this page, and click ‘Sign up here’.
Once logged in, you will be able to save your application form and come back to complete it later.
Before starting, we recommend having this information to hand.
- Requestor details
- Site details
- Slope details of land being grazed
- Farm Environmental Management Plan details. This can be uploaded within your application and may include maps, photos and plans.
- Click here to access Environment Southland's Cultivation and Intensive Winter Grazing Mapping Tool, and other videos to help understand more about the risks on your farm.
Please note: Deemed permitted activity notices will be valid until 1 November 2024.
Resource consent
Apply for a resource consent
Note: to apply for a resource consent online you will need to be a registered user with My Environment Southland. Not signed up with us? Click the ‘Log In’ button at the top of this page, and click ‘Sign up here’.
Once logged in, you will be able to save your application form and come back to complete it later.
Before starting, we recommend having this information to hand.
- Applicant details
- Site details
- Slope details of land being grazed
- Total hectares previously grazed between 1 July 2014 - 30 June 2019
- Details of crop and stock types to be grazed
- Assessment of environmental effects (good management practices or mitigation options used on farm)
- Farm environmental management plan details
- Supporting documents. These can be uploaded within your application and may include maps, photos and plans
- Click here to access Environment Southland's Cultivation and Intensive Winter Grazing mapping tool
Please note - if you are granted a resource consent, this will likely be for a 5-year term.
You can apply for a resource consent by clicking here, or you can download a pdf version of the form to complete here.
We encourage you to look at your grazing activities and the criteria you'd need to meet if you were to continue without a resource consent. Now is a great time to contact our consents or land sustainability team to discuss your grazing plans - before starting on any consent application or farm plan. Give us a call on 0800 76 88 45 or email esconsents@es.govt.nz.
Mapping tool
Useful links
Read our factsheet about the three pathways to winter grazing next season
Tips on how to measure the slope of your paddock (video)
Read the Proposed Southland Water and Land Plan
Find out more about the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater
Find out more about the Essential Freshwater regulations here.
Check out our other useful consent advice factsheets
Find out more about the Southland Intensive Winter Grazing Advisory Group here.
Read DairyNZ's advice around wintering here.
Download the Ministry for Primary Industries intensive winter grazing plan template
Read Beef + Lamb New Zealand's guidance on preparing for winter grazing