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1. Environment court annual report 2013 [pdf, 213 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 p...

2. ORC PC7 Hearing Schedule - 6.4.2021 [pdf, 283 KB]

   ...Representative Subject (if provided) Position Evidence / Representation Questioning / Cross-Examination Fish & Game Morgan Trotter Ecological Flow Evidence Summary (10min) ORC (30min) OWRUG (30min) Court (45min) Fish & Game Nigel Parageen Environmental Management Evidence Summary (10min) ORC (30min) Nga Rūnanga (30min) OWRUG (30min) Court (45min) Lunch (12.45pm) Fish & Game Ian Cole Recreational Angling Evidence Summary (10min) OWRUG (30min) Court (45min) Adjourn...

3. [2024] NZEnvC 140 The Trustees of the Spruce Grove Trust v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 282 KB]

   ...Trustees of Spruce Grove Trust v Queenstown Lakes District Council [2023] NZEnvC 279. 2 Trustees of the Spruce Grove Trust v Queenstown Lakes District Council [2024] NZEnvC 99. 3 Tairua Marine Ltd v Waikato Regional Council [2006] NZRMA 485 (HC); Environmental Protection Authority v BW Offshore Singapore Pte Ltd [2021] NZHC 2577 at [19]. 4 Foodstuffs (Otago Southland) Properties Limited v Dunedin City Council (1996) 2 ELRNZ 138. 5 Environment Court of New Zealand Practice Note 2023, c...

4. ENVC Matiatia party corresp WMLFeb15 affidavit M Dunn [pdf, 17 MB]

   ...130 vehicles (70 original and 60 proposed), As noted earlier Mr Mitchell has indicated that approximately 138 vehicles could be accommodated with sealing and marking out, The small difference in expected number of formed parking spaces is of no environmental effects significance, Neither would be the change in carpark surfaCing and any consequential alterations to the stormwater system, As such, I would expect any WML Section 127 application to meet the RMA 'tests' for...

5. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 AC evidence chief legal submissions [pdf, 436 KB]

   ...Page 10 31557164:629148 dredging will be expensive and will have to exceed two metres in depth for large parts. The dredged material is estimated to amount to 142,000 cubic metres. The disposal of those dredged tailings creates an immediate environmental issue. … [35] This situation is very different from that in Body Corporate 97010. It can be readily seen in that case how issues as to complying parking had no effect on the size, shape and location of the building and on...

6. [2020] NZEnvC 212 Dunedin City Council v Ross [pdf, 15 MB]

   ...feature attracted strong submissions from counsel for the respondents about the weight the Court could place on it ("low"). [16] Evidence was called form Mr S C Ross, one of the respondents, and consultant ecologist Dr M J Thorsen. 1 Environmental Defence Society v Maunganui County Council [1989] 3NZLR 257 ; Western Bay of Plenty District Council v Whaiti Decision No. A128/05. 2 Terry v West Coast Regional Council Decision No. C147/01 . 4 [17] Mr Ewans was not granted...

7. [2023] NZEnvC 278 Hanan and Banco Trustees v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...development (e.g. Millbrook). Close proximity to Arrowtown. Close proximity to urban infrastructure. Large-scaled lots suggest potential for subdivision. Potential for integration of walkways/cycleways. Riparian restoration potential. Easy topography. Environmental characteristics and visual amenity values to be maintained and enhanced Views from McDonnell Road and Centennial Avenue to the surrounding mountain/river context. Reinforcing a robust and defensible edge to Arrowtown....

8. 2021-03-18 ORC PC7 Hearing Schedule (draft as at 17 March 2021) [pdf, 295 KB]

   ...Representative Subject (if provided) Position Evidence / Representation Questioning / Cross-Examination Fish & Game Morgan Trotter Ecological Flow Evidence Summary (10min) Court (45min) ORC (30min) OWRUG (30min) Fish & Game Nigel Parageen Environmental Management Evidence Summary (10min) Court (45min) ORC (30min) Nga Rūnanga (30min) OWRUG (30min) Lunch (12.45pm) Fish & Game Ian Cole Recreational Angling Evidence Summary (10min) Court (45min) OWRUG (30min) Royal For...

9. [2023] NZEnvC 073 Napier City Council v McMillan [pdf, 396 KB]

   ...for that practice in these terms in Tasman District Council v Douglas:16 If a party puts a local authority to the cost and expense of having to obtain an enforcement order from the Environment Court in order to compel that person to meet their environmental obligations, it seems entirely appropriate that the person subject to the order should contribute to the local authority’s costs of obtaining the order. In terms of enforcement proceedings, where an application is considered...

10. [2024] NZEnvC 063 Horticulture New Zealand v Waikato District Council [pdf, 457 KB]

    ...(l) They avoid a potentially significant cost in terms of the lack of appropriate enablement for seasonal workers in close proximity to where their employment is located; 6 (m) The addition of the new provisions create no difference in environmental effects because the scale of buildings and the intensity of activity is the same; (n) They ensure a suitable level of on-site amenity is provided for SWA; (o) The floor area based metric for SWA is more certain and more readily...