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This section sets out the NZ Transport Agency’s response to proposed private developments, such as subdivisions and billboards alongside the state highway network.

Full title: Understanding the transport-mediated impacts of new highways on community connectedness and severance – a New Zealand case study.

Monitoring development mitigation measures is paramount to a successful planning process under the Resource Management Act 1991.

Where a development proposal has adverse impacts on a state highway, the NZ Transport Agency will seek to ensure that these adverse effects are avoided, remedied or mitigated at the developer’s cost.

The NZ Transport Agency uses integrated transport assessments to understand and assess the potential transport impacts of a development proposal.

The purpose of the literature review was to gather information about causal pathways between community severance and transport, and between social connectedness and transport, as well as review the methods that have been used to collect, record and p…