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1. 2022-02-11 Statement of Evidence of Kerstin Strauss dated 11 February 2022 [pdf, 281 KB]

   ...systems and processes include: 6 (a) Application Form 28 ‘Use of land for residential development’. It is intended that the applicant can fill in the application form themselves, but they will need specialist input as it relates to the design of mitigation measures such as settling ponds, as well as environmental management plans (EMPs). I note that the application form refers to section 9 land use only; however, it requests information in regard to water quality and dis...

2. ENVC paper Guizhou Province Judges 2015 [pdf, 337 KB]

   ...(“RMA") was passed into law by the New Zealand Government in 1991. It took the place of longstanding planning legislation, and is broader than planning done in many other countries such as Britain, and parts of Australia. The RMA governs the environmental management of land, air, water, soil, and eco-systems throughout New Zealand’s land mass, and its territorial sea (out to 12 miles from the coast). It applies the concept of sustainable management of natural and physical...

3. Responsiveness to Resource Management Issues - a New Zealand perspective a paper by Commissioner K Edmonds [pdf, 244 KB]

   Australasian Conference of Planning and Environmental Courts and Tribunals (ACPECT 2016) Responsiveness to Resource Management Issues - a New Zealand perspective Commissioner Kathryn Edmonds Environment Court (NZ) Background Condition setting on resource consents is an important and often challenging part of the Resource Management Act (RMA) resource consent process in New Zealand and has been a cause for concern, not least in terms of the ability and enforceabili...

4. E29 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture JWS [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...of the Resource Management Act 1991 for resource consents for the necessary infrastructure and related activities associated with holding the America’s Cup in Auckland Applicant: Panuku Development Auckland ENV-AKL-2018-000078 Topic: Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Date: 7th August 2018 Meetings held: 26th July 2018 (Environment Court, Federal Street); 30th July 2018 (Simpson Grierson); and Subsequent phone and e-mail correspondence. Conferencing participants: Na...

5. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 TGKL lay attach 12 ecological compense [pdf, 172 KB]

   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Ecological compensation involves remedying or offsetting loss of natural values through the implementation of compensatory action. These actions are determined through the process of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). This report defines ecological compensation as: “positive conservation actions required by resource consent and intended to compensate for residual adverse effects of development and resource use”. The Resource Management Act 1991 (RM...

6. 26.-Evidence-of-Ms-Jo-Healy-Social-Impacts.PDF [PDF, 352 KB]

   ...the lead author of Technical Assessment E: Social Impact (Technical Assessment E) lodged as part of Volume IV of the Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE), which accompanied the application for resource consents and notices of requirement for designations (NoRs) lodged with Manawatū-Whanganui Regional Council (Horizons), Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC), Horowhenua District Council (HDC) and Kāpiti Coast District Council (KCDC) in November 2022 in respect of the Ō...

7. E96 Phillip Ware - Contaminated Land & Groundwater - RE – Applicant [pdf, 9 MB]

   ...Ms Jukic. 4.4 Should material need to be sourced from off site and not from a licenced quarry I consider that the flexibility afforded by the revised wording, specifically the term “adequately investigated” provides both an adequate level of environmental protection and a practical pathway for material approval. 4.5 For these reasons I consider the wording change to the Draft RAP requested by Ms Jukic to be appropriate. As such an amended version of the Draft RAP is attached t...

8. [2019] NZEnvC 092 Beadle v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...it would curve northward, cross Mill Creek via a new bridge (the bridge being some 11.2m wide and 5m long) and continue generally northward more or less along the true right bank of Mill Creek to Waterfall Park. [9] The Proposed Road has been designed to comply with relevant QLDC road design standards, assuming full development of the Waterfall Park land (in accordance 4 with the WPRZ) as well as potential full development of the Ayrburn Farm land (according to zoning sought b...

9. [2024] NZEnvC 189 Gisborne District Council v China Forestry Group New Zealand Company [pdf, 4.3 MB]

   ...its social licence in Tairāwhiti due to a culture of poor practices – facilitated by GDC’s capitulation to the permissiveness of the regulatory regime – and its under-resourced monitoring and compliance. Together, these factors have caused environmental damage, particularly to land and waterways, and may have put the health and safety of people and their environment at risk. [9] In determining this application, we bear in mind that the Kanuka Forest is just one of the forests in...

10. Directory of Official Information 2019 D-F [pdf, 695 KB]

    ...and choices made by parents, teachers, managers, trustees and others, at the individual school and early childhood level and at the national level by government policy makers. The Chief Executive of ERO is the Chief Review Officer, who formally designates individual Review Officers to carry out reviews in schools and early childhood centres. The functions and powers of the Chief Review Officer are described in part 28, sections 323–328H of the Education Act 1989. This Act gives the...