East Coast Forestry Project Grant Guidelines
Making an application
Before submitting an application, please discuss it with MAF’s ECFP office in Gisborne. The ECFP office or the Soil Conservation Division of the Gisborne District Council can help with the preparation of applications.
Applications should be lodged with the ECFP office by:
- 30 April each year for large areas (over 50 hectares)
- 30 June each year for small areas (5-50 hectares).
The Minister of Forestry may, by public notification, extend the closing date. Any extension will be advertised in the Gisborne Herald.
Applications must be made on the appropriate forms. The application forms can be obtained from the MAF website, MAF's ECFP office or the Soil Conservation Section of the Gisborne District Council.
What an application must contain
Completed application forms must be accompanied by sufficient information about the landholding and the proposed area to allow MAF to identify them.
Examples of the information required include:
- a current Certificate of Title or a description of the land
- if the applicant is not the current land owner, written confirmation that the land owner agrees to the application
- an aerial photographic plan showing relevant management details, including
- the target land
- the boundaries of the proposed grant area
- any internal planting boundaries where different planting years, species or erosion treatments are intended
- existing and/or proposed fencing
- any excluded CCIS within the proposed grant area
- access considerations.
MAF and the Gisborne District Council can help with the preparation of applications, and can supply aerial photographic information showing target and Overlay 3A land at regional and property scales.
Contact for Enquiries
East Coast Forestry Project
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Cnr Grey St & Childers Rd
1st Floor ZGFM Building
PO Box 2122
Gisborne 4040
Tel: +64 6 986 8691
Fax: +64 6 986 8697
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