[2023] NZEnvC 223 MacFarlane Investments Ltd v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 490 KB]
...enquire into the objection and the intended taking and is to conduct a hearing having followed the procedural steps set out in ss 24(3)-(6). These steps were duly followed. [51] A hearing on the matter was initially delayed pending a response to a request for information made by the objector to the Council under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987. That request was then pursued as an application for discovery made under s278(2) RMA. [52] The informa...