Guide for Leaseholders

Here you can download useful information to help guide you through the tenure review process.

Apply for a tenure review

A brief introduction to the process is set out in the Tenure Review Fact Sheet (pdf 164KB).

You must first invite LINZ to undertake a tenure review.

You can download and fill in the following form then send it to LINZ:

• Invitation to Undertake Tenure Review (pdf 27KB).

LINZ will reply to your invitation, advising of you of their response.

Commence a tenure review

The following document provides detailed information about each step in the process including an explanation of the legal steps and time line:

• Tenure Review: A Detailed Guide (pdf 189 KB).

Tenure review progress

LINZ provides regular updates about how reviews are progressing in the tenure review progress reports.

You can check the latest advertised reviews listed under status and location of Crown pastoral land.

Technical reports

LINZ has commissioned a number of research reports to assist in the administering the tenure review process. Copies of these reports can be downloaded here:

• Lincoln University (LINZ commissioned), 2009: Colonisation and spread of Hieracium spp in the South Island high country over 25 years (pdf 1.01MB)
• Lincoln University (LINZ commissioned), 2009: Summary Brochure: Colonisation and spread of Hieracium weed species in the South Island high country over 25 years (pdf 403KB)
• Lincoln University (LINZ commissioned), 2007: Two decades of vegetation change across tussock grasslands of New Zealand’s South Island (pdf 1.2KB)
• Lincoln University (LINZ commissioned), 2007: Summary Brochure: Two decades of vegetation change across tussock grasslands of New Zealand’s South Island (pdf 1.95KB)
• Landcare Research Contract Report, LC0304/ 086, 2004. Representativeness of Protected Areas for Biodiversity (pdf 1.47MB)
• Landcare Research Contract Report, LC0304/ 051, 2003. South Island Pastoral Lease Land Tenure Review: Classification of Land into Land Use Potential Groupings (pdf 2.24MB)
• Landcare Research Contract Report, LC0304/ 053, 2003. South Island Pastoral Lease Land Tenure Review: An Interim Vegetation Cover Map (pdf 1.96MB)
• Landcare Research Contract Report, LC0304/ 065, 2004. Vegetation History of the South Island High Country (pdf 218KB)
• Landcare Research Contract Report, LC0304/ 111, 2004. Significance Assessment for Biodiversity in the South Island High Country (pdf 407KB)
• Landcare Research Contract Report, LC0304/ 145, 2004. Draft Guidelines for Understanding the Promotion of Ecological Sustainability in Tenure Review (pdf 150KB).