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1. [2023] NZEnvC 111 Schmuck v Northland Regional Council [pdf, 12 MB]

   ...telephone notification during the council’s opening hours, the council’s assigned monitoring officer for these consents shall be contacted. If that person cannot be spoken to directly, or it is outside of the council’s opening hours, then the Environmental Emergency Hotline shall be contacted. Advice Note: The Environmental Emergency Hotline is a 24 hour, seven day a week, service that is free to call on 0800 504 639. 13 These consents shall lapse five years from commencement unl...

2. 18.-Manahi-Paewai-Rangitane-o-tamaki-nui-a-rua.pdf [pdf, 5.5 MB]

   ...Tararua Highway Project ("Project"), by way of a presentation appended to this evidence as Attachment MP.1; (c) to summarise the Cultural Impact Assessment ("CIA"), which RoTnaR prepared as part of Volume VI of the Assessment of Environmental Effects ("AEE"), which accompanied the application for resource consents lodged with Manawatū-Whanganui Regional Council ("Horizons") on 11 March 2020 in respect of the Project; (d) to describe further...

3. [2021] NZACC 190 – Barton v ACC (30 November 2021) [pdf, 225 KB]

   ...[41] The Corporation referred Mr Barton’s case to a Clinical Advisory Panel comprising Mr Denis Atkinson, Orthopaedic Surgeon; Dr Michael Austen, Urgent Care Specialist; Mr Joe Brownlee, Orthopaedic Surgeon; and Dr May Obele, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Specialist. On 10 March 2021, the panel reported: 10 The medical evidence indicates that Mr Barton’s initial 2008 right hip joint replacement was uncomplicated, and he had no significant difficulties until 201...

4. Sanford Limited [pdf, 476 KB]

   ...alternative location exists, or is workable for fishing industry activities. It would be inappropriate to grant consent to the Proposal until such time as these matters have been appropriately resolved, and it can be demonstrated that the adverse environmental effects, including on the Submitters, can be appropriately avoided, remedied or mitigated. (c) Further, and more fundamentally, the Submitters are concerned that their relocation from their current berthage areas is likely...

5. Name suppression June 2020 [xlsx, 136 KB]

   ...offences 292 438 457 681 467 620 485 584 337 636 5% 7% 7% 11% 8% 9% 8% 9% 6% 10% Total name suppression 11: Prohibited and regulated weapons and explosives offences 70 133 94 50 66 83 103 77 71 145 1% 2% 1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 1% 1% 2% Total name suppression 12: Property damage and environmental pollution 145 131 96 66 63 80 103 130 75 123 2% 2% 1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 2% 1% 2% Total name suppression 13: Public order offences 638 564 772 468 632 512 296 318 325 392 11% 10% 12% 8% 11% 8% 5% 5% 6% 6% Total na...

6. [2022] NZEnvC 079 Woolworths New Zealand Limited [pdf, 320 KB]

   ...application by Woolworths was lodged. It is useful to refer to that decision and to counsel’s submissions. [32] In BW Offshore, the High Court had overturned an Environment Court decision awarding a higher than usual award of costs against the Environmental Protection Agency (‘EPA’), who was a party to the court’s proceedings and appeared to signal a departure from reliance on the Bielby factors, making the observations (relevantly) that: (a) while acknowledging that the...

7. [2022] NZEnvC 005 Northlake Investments Limited v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 231 KB]

   ...is the potential conflict of interest, or appearance of that, in the fact that QLDC is, at the same time as administering the consent at issue, subject to abatement notice proceedings issued by Otago Regional Council for alleged RMA breach and environmental damage (erosion in a DoC reserve) associated with discharges of stormwater, including from the Site. [10] I signalled that, if the parties would seek to take up the opportunity of facilitated ADR, Commissioner Mabin (who has pre-...

8. Environment Court annual report 2015 [pdf, 475 KB]

   ...ensuring the orderly and expeditious discharge of the business of the Court. 1.4 The Court's Jurisdiction The Environment Court is established by section 247 of the RMA as a Court of record. It is a specialist court that has jurisdiction over environmental and resource management matters. It can be characterised as follows: • a Judge usually presides at sittings to hear and determine proceedings • it is required by law to act judicially • it hears contesting parties to the...

9. Name suppression December 2020 [xlsx, 136 KB]

   ...offences 337 487 666 553 418 581 555 401 506 611 6% 7% 10% 10% 7% 10% 8% 6% 9% 10% Total name suppression 11: Prohibited and regulated weapons and explosives offences 113 96 83 68 72 80 92 80 104 146 2% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 2% Total name suppression 12: Property damage and environmental pollution 146 94 94 68 69 84 124 108 93 89 3% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 2% 2% 1% Total name suppression 13: Public order offences 375 810 591 489 636 398 267 352 378 383 7% 12% 8% 8% 10% 7% 4% 6% 7% 6% Total name...

10. [2018] NZEnvC 122 Lee Valley Limestone v Tasman District Council [pdf, 4.6 MB]

    ...amalgamated with Lot 1 DP305843 on the eastern side of the highway. A new title will issue for proposed Lot 2 (18.4 ha) being the site and this will contain the quarry. There was no dispute that the proposed subdivision would not cause any adverse environmental effects and was consistent with the relevant planning provisions of the Tasman Resource Management Plan (TRMP). [6] Under s 106 RMA (pre 17 October 2017) we must consider whether the land is suitable for subdivision taking in...