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1. [2024] NZEnvC 293 Waimarino Queenstown Limited (as successor to B Property Group Ltd) v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 648 KB]

   ...the consent notice conditions must reflect the underlying subdivision consent conditions. This central feature of the consent notice has been long recognised since the RMA was enacted. It was recognised in the Court of Appeal decision in Kapiti Environmental Action Inc v Frandi,7 albeit that the Court was dealing with the wording of s221(3) in force prior to a 2005 amendment to s221(3). [26] That former version of s221 had provided for a variation or cancellation of the conditio...

2. 15.-Evidence-of-Mr-Gregor-McLean-Erosion-and-Sediment-Control64012503.1.PDF [PDF, 224 KB]

   ................................................................................................ 5 Section 198 Report ............................................................................................ 12 Page 1 INTRODUCTION 1. My full name is Gregor John McLean. 2. I am a Director of Southern Skies Environmental Limited (SSEL), an environmental consultancy company specialising in erosion and sediment control (ESC), environmental management and planning....

3. Territorial Authorities - EiC - J S McGirr - Planning (4 Feb 2021) [pdf, 162 KB]

   ...Fax: (03) 477 5564 Email: bridget.irving@gallawaycookallan.co.nz Email: phil.page@gallawaycookallan.co.nz 1 BI-829054-9-4-V3 BRIEF OF EVIDENCE OF JENNIFER SONJA MCGIRR Introduction 1. My full name is Jennifer Sonja McGirr. I am the Environmental Manager – Infrastructure at Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC). I commenced work with QLDC in 2017 as the Environmental Consents and Compliance Officer, progressing to Senior Environmental Advisor and then Environmenta...

4. ORC - Kerstin Strauss - Evidence in Reply - 11 March 2022 [pdf, 171 KB]

   ...improvements to the implementation of these provisions can be made. I note that the implementation of all plan provisions by both the consents team and the compliance team are constantly evolving based on learnings and feedback to enable appropriate environmental outcome whilst considering customer experience. 8 In relation to Ms Hunter’s evidence on consent condition duplication I consider that all of the conditions in ORC’s manual are necessary (and can be applied dependi...

5. OWRUG - EiC - J M H Manson (5 Feb 2021) [pdf, 137 KB]

   ...estimate the value of our investment in water management to be $2.85 million. Our property has been run as a dairy farm since 2013. 3. In good faith I have and will continue, to invest in best business practise, best agriculture practise, best environmental practise and best practise for soil, animal, and people welfare, to produce products of quality and 2 PP-1035600-2-292-V1 integrity. I wish to continue to farm to the highest standard. My success and the farming commu...

6. Fish & Game – Supplementary – B Farrell – Planning (23 March 2021) [pdf, 246 KB]

   ...Mr de Pelsemaeker 14 March 2021). I also attach, as Appendix 1, the latest amendments recommended by Mr de Pelsemaeker which I also support. Objective (a) I remain of the opinion the objective should be simplified and amended to refer to an environmental outcome. However, compared to the version recommended in my EiC (which sought to protect the health and well- being of waterbodies more broadly), I now consider the outcome could be refined to focus on the health and well-being...

7. 05.-Evidence-of-Mr-Lindsay-Poutama-Ngati-Tukorehe.PDF [PDF, 221 KB]

   ...development of the Project from its inception. This has included participating in the shaping of the Ō2NL Project route selection and corridor refinement, communicating its values associated with the Ō2NL environment and its position in terms of environmental effects of the Project, and continuing to work in partnership with Waka Kotahi as the Project moves through the consenting process. 4. As part of this work, I prepared a Cultural Impact Assessment (CIA), dated 5 October...

8. FFNZ - EiC - P W Hunt (5 Feb 2021) [pdf, 307 KB]

   ...of the original plan 6A was to enable and encourage farmers to farm with the environment at the fore of every decision. 15. With adequate and appropriate ORC support the implementation of its existing Water Plan would have had a far better environmental outcome than a one-size fits all tick box exercise that can sit in the bottom drawer until it needs to be renewed. 16. The environment does not benefit from plan changes. It benefits from action on the ground and this requir...

9. 2020-12-07 Statement of Evidence of Tom de Pelsemaeker on behalf of the ORC [pdf, 938 KB]

   ...to address............ 14 Lack of understanding about the state of the region’s freshwater resources, and the effect of water taking on these resources .................................................................. 14 Uncertainty around the environmental outcomes, limits and environmental flows that need to be established in accordance with the NPS-FM 2020 .................................. 17 Allocation that may not prioritise first the health and well-being of freshwater bodies...

10. [2019] NZEnvC 049 Haines House Haulage Northland v Whangarei District Council [pdf, 3.5 MB]

    ...of rural land and the derogation of rural production activities; (b) Rural subdivision generally should be avoided unless it provides for rural uses. Subdivision as a controlled activity should be into sites of 20 hectares or more, and where environmental benefits will be achieved by that outcome; (c) There is a general resistance to residential activities in the general rural zone, unless associated with rural productive purposes; (d) That after significant consideration, the Pla...