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1. [2024] NZEnvC 093 Ocean Dynamics Limited v Tauranga City Council [pdf, 349 KB]

   ...conditions: General 1. Subject to any amendments required to be made to comply with the following conditions, the consented activity must proceed in accordance with the application submitted including: (a) The Application and Assessment of Environmental Effects Report prepared Lysaght and titled ‘Proposed Development for TMH (1982) Limited’, dated 14 November 2022. (b) Flood hazard assessment prepared by Lysaght dated 2 November 2022, reference 225222. (c) Geotechnical inve...

2. [2017] NZEnvC 155 J Evans v ADL Properties Ltd [pdf, 2.4 MB]

   ...of Gallaway Cook Allan's lease in its old premises; (d) the applicant's failure to withdraw the application once the misunderstandings were explained; (e) the applicant's failure to call any expert evidence in relation to the environmental effects of the alleged non-compliance; (f) the applicant's failure to consider environmental effects if the enforcement order was granted; and (g) the applicant's failure to consider the costs to the respondent of comp...

3. [2024] NZEnvC 052 Lakeside Developments 2017 Limited v Waikato District Council [pdf, 368 KB]

   ...benefit of this approach for plan users is the added clarity and guidance that policy PREC31-P1 provides with regard to growth, urban form, amenity and sense of place. The costs and benefits are set out in the table below: Benefits Costs 6 Environmental Avoids development in areas with geotechnical constraints. Increasing the housing density limits the need for sprawl which results in an efficient use of the land area. The natural environment is sought to be enhanced. En...

4. ORC & Federated Farmers - EIC - Mathew Korteweg - 17 September 2021 [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...environment plan (which we use) for our dairy farm considers general farm practices, land and soil, irrigation, effluent management, waterways, biodiversity, and nutrients. 43 Good farming practices also consider need to identify and manage environmental risk on farm. The magnitude of risk is a combination of likelihood of environmental risk and the relative impact. This helps to identify environmental priorities. 44 The Fonterra “good farming practices” in our Farm Enviro...

5. People discharged without conviction December 2017 [xlsx, 293 KB]

   ...deception and related offences 272 171 283 129 132 121 168 150 160 133 10: Illicit drug offences 257 263 247 203 208 160 154 158 132 192 11: Prohibited and regulated weapons and explosives offences 135 107 99 93 80 74 59 79 66 68 12: Property damage and environmental pollution 488 447 396 347 381 232 195 203 173 191 13: Public order offences 860 787 550 312 220 176 120 115 109 124 14: Traffic and vehicle regulatory offences 470 470 381 368 427 330 374 378 376 337 15: Offences against just...

6. [2023] NZEnvC 273 Meridian Energy Ltd v Mackenzie District Council [pdf, 437 KB]

   ...______________________________ J J M Hassan Environment Judge 5 List of appellants ENV-2021-CHC-092 Director-General of Conservation ENV-2021-CHC-093 Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Incorporated ENV-2021-CHC-094 Environmental Defence Society Incorporated List of s274 parties Balmoral Station (Tekapo) Ltd Canterbury Regional Council Classic Properties Limited Federated Farms of NZ (Inc) Genesis Energy Limited Glen Lyon Ltd Glen...

7. [2022] NZEnvC 016 Federated Farmers of New Zealand v Northland Regional Council [pdf, 2.3 MB]

   ...(CMA). [2] The PRP hearings have been interrupted both by COVID-19 and by some practical issues that have arisen with the introduction of the new National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPSFM 2020), Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Freshwater) Regulations 2020 (NES-F) and the Stock Exclusion Regulations 2020 (SER). All of these documents came into force after the plan was promulgated, after the Council decisions were issued and, in fact, after...

8. Waitangi Tribunal - Kaupapa Inquiry Programme Direction [pdf, 476 KB]

   ...affected and partly of the importance of the issue to Maori generally. f) Importance of the take to the nation: How significant is the issue to the nation? This factor applies in particular to matters affecting major aspects of economic, social and environmental policy, in particular where large-scale financial impacts or political or legal uncertainty might be involved. 1 23. Although an order of inquiries is set down, some flexibility may be needed as the programme proceeds. Changing...

9. OWRUG - EiC - M A Hickey - Geogrpahy/Hydrology (4 Feb 2021) [pdf, 698 KB]

   ...Act (1991) (RMA) consents post 2021. 6. Over the last 15 years I have made or reviewed over 150 technical recommendations for residual flow conditions to protect the ecological values at individual takes points across Otago; worked on setting environmental flows and allocation limits for a number of Otago’s rivers; as well as water quantity policy development for the Regional Plan: Water for Otago (RPW), specifically around managing the transition from deemed permits to RMA co...

10. 2020-12-07 Statement of evidence of Tom de Pelsemaeker on behalf of the ORC - Appendix H [pdf, 197 KB]

    ...Strategy Committee, New Zealand Solicitor General, 8 May 1992, p 20. 4 sections 6, 7 and 8 of the RMA provide strong directions in relation to Māori interests, which are to be borne in mind at every stage of the planning process.21 In Environmental Defence Society Inc v The New Zealand King Salmon Co Ltd, the Supreme Court found that:22 …the obligation in s 8 to have regard to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi will have procedural as well as substantive implicatio...