[2017] NZEnvC 062 Pukekohe East Community Society Incorporated v Auckland Council [pdf, 1.8 MB]
...presents difficulties that are not the same as for the control of noise from permanent activities. This is the basis on which the relevant New Zealand standards provide for levels of construction noise different from other operational noise of human activities. The use of management plans to address the particular circumstances of an activity is also recognised by the Court as an appropriate method of enabling some fine-tuning of controls set in conditions that might otherwise have...