LAND USE PLANNING
& DEVELOPMENT

Land use planning and development through Resilience Explorer®

Design tomorrow's growth for tomorrow's risk.

Resilience Explorer® helps you understand how climate and natural hazard risk affects land, development, and communities. It provides a consistent evidence base to support zoning decisions, spatial planning, and development assessment.

The planning decisions you make about where communities grow, where infrastructure is built, and where development is appropriate will shape risk exposure for generations. Getting those calls right requires reliable, forward-looking information about where climate and natural hazard risks may increase and how development decisions influence future exposure.

Challenges facing Land Use Planning and Development

Making development decisions today that remain safe and defensible under future climate and natural hazard conditions

Balancing development pressure with the need to avoid increasing long-term community risk

Demonstrating that zoning and consent decisions are based on clear and credible evidence

REGULATORY CONTEXT
Planning policy now expects councils to direct growth away from high hazard risk and make risk-informed land use decisions. Resilience Explorer® helps you do both.

How Resilience Explorer® enables Asset and Infrastructure Planning

Understand where development may face hazard riskSee where climate and natural hazard risks may affect current and future development areas.

Support risk-informed zoning and spatial planningUse hazard information to guide long-term growth decisions.

Assess development proposals in hazard-prone areasProvide consistent risk information during development assessment.

Understand how development decisions influence future riskSee how planning choices affect long-term community exposure.

Support transparent planning decisionsProvide evidence that supports planning processes and community discussion.

KEY BENEFIT

Support land use decisions with clear, consistent climate and natural hazard risk evidence.

See how Resilience Explorer® is enabling tangible Land Use Planning and Development

GOVERNMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE
PROPERTY & LAND USE
OUTCOME | Hawke’s Bay Regional council

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See how Resilience Explorer® enables action in other ways

Adaptation Planning

Guide communities through changing climate risk.

Land use planning 


and development

Design tomorrow’s growth for tomorrow’s risk

Emergency
planning and
business continuity

The benefit of hindsight, beforehand.

Asset and
infrastructure
planning

Invest in the right assets, in the right places, at the right time.

A simple three step process

Connect your data

01.

Multiple data sources, one place. Understand your exposure across your entire district or network.

Explore 

risk across scenarios

02.

See how risk changes over time and under different climate projections. Model how consequences cascade.

03.

Act with 

defensible evidence

Prioritise investment, test adaptation options, and build business cases that stand up to scrutiny.

Not yet using Resilience Explorer®?

If your organisation is managing infrastructure, land, or community assets and needs to move from risk visibility to risk-informed decisions, we would like to show you how the platform works.

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© 2026 Urban Intelligence. All Rights Reserved

Contact Us

Level 3/209 Tuam Street

Ōtautahi | Christchurch 8011

info@urbanintelligence.co.nz