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Land Tenure

Information relating to land tenure should be captured in two attributes: land_estate and land_status.
How land is owned, and by whom, is an important consideration for how land may be used or managed.
This information is included because it directly participates in the intended use of the land-use classification system, though it is auxiliary.

land_estate

Section titled “land_estate”

Controlled vocabulary of types of tenure in New Zealand:

  • freehold or (to be more specific) māori freehold, i.e. estate in fee simple
  • leasehold or (to be more specific) crown leasehold (e.g. a Crown pastoral lease)
  • cross lease
  • stratum estate, i.e. forms of unit title, according to whether land that has been subdivided was freehold or leasehold; stratum estate in freehold, stratum estate in leasehold (to be more specific)

land_status

Section titled “land_status”

A non-exhaustive list of land-status types organised along a gradient from Crown (public) to private.

1. Crown

Section titled “1. Crown”
  • Department of Conservation
  • Territorial Local Authorities
    • Regional councils
    • Unitary authorities
    • City councils
    • District councils
  • Offices of Parliament
  • State services departments
    • Public service departments
    • Departmental agencies
    • State services organisations outside the core public service, e.g.
      • NZDF
      • NZ Police
  • Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), with respect to unallocated Crown land

2. Intermediate

Section titled “2. Intermediate”
  • State-owned enterprises, e.g.
    • AsureQuality
    • Electricity Corporation of New Zealand
    • Kiwirail
    • Landcorp
    • MetService
    • Transpower New Zealand
  • State-(part-)owned enterprises, e.g.
    • Earth Science New Zealand
    • Bioeconomy Science Institute
    • Air New Zealand (51.95% government ownership)
    • Christchurch Airport (25%)
    • Housing New Zealand Corporation
    • Genesis Energy Limited (52.4%)
    • Mercury Energy (51.15%)
    • Meridian Energy (51.02%)
  • Non-SOE Crown-owned companies, e.g.
    • Public Research Organisations
    • TVNZ
    • RNZ
  • Universities
  • Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics
  • Wānanga (those that have been granted Crown entity status)
  • Council-controlled organisations (e.g. Ports of Auckland)

3. Private

Section titled “3. Private”
  • Businesses (corporations, companies)
  • Trusts
  • Families
  • Individuals
  • Iwi