High Country Leases

LINZ looks after millions of hectares of high country land in the South Island. The land is made up of:

• pastoral leases. In 1998 LINZ administered 306 pastoral leases in the South Island of New Zealand. That number is falling due to Tenure Review. Pastoral leaseholders are generally farmers who have a lease with a perpetual right of renewal. Leases allow grazing of the land for pastoral farming purposes. Leaseholders are subject to a range of restrictions on other use of the land. Under Tenure Review they have the opportunity to own part of their leasehold land.
  
  
• special leases. These are leases that are created for a special purpose that allow grazing of the land for pastoral farming purposes. Leaseholders are subject to a range of restrictions on other use of the land.
  
  
• pastoral occupation licenses (POLs). POLs give the licensee fixed term use of pastoral land subject to a range of conditions. The conditions are generally more restrictive than pastoral leases.

No new pastoral leases are available.

What's available

• Tenure Review
• A list of all LINZ's high country leases
• High Country objectives Cabinet papers
• Crown Pastoral Management information
• Review of Other South Island High Country Land
• Molesworth Management Plan