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1. 2021-06-15 ORC - MOC - Submissions in response to Amicus Curiae memorandum [pdf, 183 KB]

   ...submissions of counsel for the Otago Regional Council dated 8 March 2021. 11 permit holders8, particularly those located downstream who rely on a right of priority to take water during times of low flow; and (ii) recognising an incidental environmental benefit from the existence and exercise of priorities on flows and instream values. 40 Further, it is submitted that any conditions imposed under a rule would meet the requirements of section 108AA as it would be directly...

2. 5. Transcript (weeks 9 & 10 Dunedin) [pdf, 3.2 MB]

   ...the Court is considering water-users in this process and in the 15 formation of the plan change 7, it’s most necessary. In my view, it behoves the Otago Regional Council in its application of water management processes to consider not just the environmental implications but the implications on its region and people in its region, in the Otago Region. 20 Southern Lakes Holdings itself has invested significantly into the use of water resources. We have four small irrigation pro...

3. Tom de Pelsemaeker - Recommended changes to PC7 (clean) (4 March 2021) [pdf, 308 KB]

   ...proposed amendments are footnoted with a reference to either a submission in general or the particular part of a submission that gives the scope for the proposal. The coding used is that contained in the Summary of Decisions table prepared for the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and published on the EPA website. Some of these footnote references have been corrected since the filing of Evidence in Chief. Where “consequential amendment” is noted, the amendment is a nec...

4. Deborah Freeman - Evidence in Chief [pdf, 3.1 MB]

   ...and the assessment of the Bioresearches report on Benthic Sediment Quality (which I wrote together with my colleague Dr Shane Geange) (10 June 2014);1 18.5 Park's 2014 review of the ecology and water quality components of the assessment of environmental effects (Park 2014a,b); 18.6 the Cawthron Institute's report on ecological surveys, and accompanying video imagery, undertaken on Astrolabe Reef in February 2015 (Barter & Dunmore 2015); 18.7 the report from the Caw...

5. [2024] NZEnvC 064 The Surveying Company Limited v Waikato District Council [pdf, 548 KB]

   ...smaller development scenarios (which could be done in tandem with Option 2). Keep Access Widths in Decisions Version (Option 1) Reduce Access Widths (Option 2) Amend Seal Standards in Rural zones (Option 3) Benefits and costs – Environmental Benefits: Less dust generated from unsealed accesses in the rural environment Costs: Greater amount of impervious surfaces Benefits: Less impervious surfaces that generate stormwater runoff to manage Costs: G...

6. Landpro - Supplementary - C R Perkins - Planning (23 March 2021) [pdf, 482 KB]

   ...changes to the controlled activity pathway reflect the position I put forward in the original focus group session in January 2020 during the development of the PC7 provisions (and expressed again in my EIC) that trying to insert any additional environmental enhancement matters within a six-year rollover would not be cost-effective, efficient or create an attractive path for permit holders due to the cost and time involved in obtaining sufficient information for the consent applicati...

7. [2023] NZEnvC 025 Minister of Conservation v Marlborough District Council [pdf, 5.5 MB]

   ...Aroma (N.Z.) Limited & others ENV-2020-CHC-40 Haro Partnership ENV-2020-CHC-77 Just Mussels Limited & others ENV-2020-CHC-60 Sanford Limited ENV-2020-CHC-33 Friends of Nelson Haven & Tasman Bay (Inc) ENV-2020-CHC-67 Environmental Defence Society Incorporated ENV-2020-CHC-56 New Zealand Transport Agency ENV-2020-CHC-58 Federated Farmers of New Zealand ENV-2020-CHC-68 Transpower New Zealand Limited 6 Appendix 1 Volume One 8. Indigenous...

8. 2021-03-14 Tom De Pelsemaeker - Supplementary - Appendix 1 [pdf, 314 KB]

   ...proposed amendments are footnoted with a reference to either a submission in general or the particular part of a submission that gives the scope for the proposal. The coding used is that contained in the Summary of Decisions table prepared for the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and published on the EPA website. Some of these footnote references have been corrected since the filing of Evidence in Chief. Where “consequential amendment” is noted, the amendment is a nec...

9. [2018] NZEnvC 207 Sustainable Otakiri Incorporated v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [pdf, 825 KB]

   ...331,22 June 2005, Gendall J. Ibid. at [17]. Ibid. at [16]. Ibid. at [17]. Ibid. at [19]. 9 [30] In Clark v Taranaki Regional Council14 the High Court stated the purpose of s 2A(2) to be to provide for continuity of a defined interest in environmental issues, recognising that community and interest groups wishing to take part in proceedings are likely to formalise their structure part way through their involvement. 15 Considering the meaning of "substantially" and r...

10. 2021-02-19 Tom de Pelsemaeker - Reply - Planning - PC7 Amendments (19 Feb 2021) [pdf, 299 KB]

    ...proposed amendments are footnoted with a reference to either a submission in general or the particular part of a submission that gives the scope for the proposal. The coding used is that contained in the Summary of Decisions table prepared for the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and published on the EPA website. Some of these footnote references have been corrected since the filing of Evidence in Chief. Where “consequential amendment” is noted, the amendment is a nec...