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1. [2020] NZEnvC 192 Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency [pdf, 16 MB]

   ...Shoebridge's property. [44] Waka Kotahi's stormwater designer (Mr D W Hughes) agrees with Dr Mcconchie that the Project including the Eastern Roundabout will not exacerbate the Eastern Roundabout will be discharged through wetland swales designed to 14 provide treatment, extended detention and peak-flow attenuation up to and including a 10- year ARI flood event. [45] Dr McConchie's and Mr Hughes' conclusions on the reduced flood hazard once the new Eastern...

2. [2023] NZEnvC 162 Allison v Clutha District Council [pdf, 2.7 MB]

   ...the 2.5m earth bunds as shown on Sheet C01, Site Layout, Revision D, dated 28/06/2023 which must be sown with grass seed as soon as practicable following their construction. (d) The following catchment areas, stormwater swale, settling pond and design components as shown on Sheet C01, Site Layout, Revision D, dated 28/06/2023 and Sheet C02, Cross- Section, Revision D, dated 28/06/2023 must be completed prior to construction of impervious surfaces authorised by this consent. Work...

3. ENVC paper Wuhan University China study tour 2015 [pdf, 587 KB]

   1 PRESENTATION TO STUDY TOUR DELEGATION FROM WUHAN UNIVERSITY, CHINA Principal Environment Judge L J Newhook, Environment Court of New Zealand. 19 August 2015. Causes of action in environmental cases, and procedural rules (Mr Cai’s Main Questions 1 and 2). Introduction: The place of the Environment Court in the New Zealand Court system. [1] The Court is a standalone specialist Court which has all the powers inherent in a Court of Record. The Court is no...

4. 13.-Boyden-Evans-Natural-character.pdf [pdf, 14 MB]

   ...INTRODUCTION 1. My full name is Boyden Henry Evans. 2. I am a New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects' ("NZILA") Registered Landscape Architect and a Partner at Boffa Miskell Limited ("Boffa Miskell"), a New Zealand-owned environmental planning and design consultancy. 3. I prepared Technical Assessment I – Natural Character ("Technical Assessment I") as part of Volume V of the Assessment of Environmental Effects ("AEE"), which a...

5. [2017] NZEnvC 205 Ahureka Trustees no 2 Ltd v Auckland Council [pdf, 4.5 MB]

   ...lot). The lots vary in size from 0.5824 ha up to 18.165 ha. This consent has not yet been given effect to but remains alive until 21 December 2019. It was part of Ahuareka's case that the proposal now under consideration gives rise to a better environmental outcome than the consented 26 lot subdivision but that if consent to the current proposal is refused by the Court, then the 26 lot subdivision would proceed. 4 [11] We think that the best summary description of the propo...

6. WISE - EiC - D MacTavish - Irrigation-Geohydrology (filed 9 Feb 2021) [pdf, 742 KB]

   ...development on stream flows to date. 3. This means that the water balances developed are at best indicative and there is no reliable basis on which to effectively manage the resources. The time frame to fix the hydrological data and develop environmental flow provisions is too long and complex to deliver sustainable outcomes resilient to climate change. 4. It is therefore recommended that with the aid of models, a natural flow regime be reconstructed for all catchments to provi...

7. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 DM expert Dennis Scott [pdf, 364 KB]

   ...littlejohn@quaychambers.co.nz PO Box 106215 AUCKLAND 1143 1 INTRODUCTION 1. My name is Dennis John Scott. Qualifications and Experience 2. I am a Landscape Architect specialising in landscape planning, analysis and assessment and land use design and management in urban, rural and coastal environments. 3. I hold the qualifications of a Diploma in Urban Valuation (1969) and a postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture (1974). I am a Registered Landscape Arch...

8. 2022-02-11 Statement of Evidence of Melanie Heather dated 11 February 2022 [pdf, 4.8 MB]

   ...Compliance Plan 2020-2022 2 INTRODUCTION 1 My full name is Melanie Jane Heather. 2 I am an Acting Team Leader in the Compliance Monitoring Central Otago team at the Otago Regional Council (ORC or Council). My substantive role is Senior Environmental Officer. I am based at the Council’s Wanaka Depot. 3 I have a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science (Honours) from the University of Limerick, Ireland (2002) and a Certificate in Regulatory Compliance (Core Kno...

9. [2022] NZEnvC 253 Tararua District Council v Manawatu-Whanganui Regional Council [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...in accordance with these conditions. GS. The Consent Holder must ensure that a copy of the OMP, including any amendments, is kept onsite. The OMP and any copy kept onsite must be amended within 5 working days of any amendments being made to the design, operation or management of the treatment system addressed by the OMP. Subject to condition G9 below, any updates Discharge Permits - Discharge to Water, Air and Land APP-2010014267.02- Tararua District Council 4 to the OMP must be...

10. 2021-10-27 ORC - PC8 - Common Bundle - Volume 1 [pdf, 16 MB]

    ...Change 1 to the Regional Plan: Water for Otago (9 October 2020) CB162 3A Appendix A: Minister for the Environment’s direction to refer Plan Change 8 and Plan Change 1 to the Environment Court (8 April 2020) CB232 3B Appendix B: Letter from Environmental Protection Authority commissioning Skelton report (15 September 2020) CB234 3C Appendix C: Minister’s letter in response to Skelton report CB236 3D Appendix D: Professor Skelton – Investigation of Freshwater Management...