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1. [2018] NZEnvC 244 Director-General of Conservation v Thames-Coromandel District Council [pdf, 1.2 MB]

   ...vegetation and non-significant habitats of indigenous fauna should: c) Prevent the spread of kauri dieback disease; ... [8] Rural Zone Rule 7 is about earthworks. It sets out activities 7.1 (a) - (h) for which earthworks may be undertaken as a permitted activity (PA) subject to compliance with standards. The D-G proposes the inclusion of an additional activity (ga), namely "plantation forestry". The D-G also proposed there be a new PA rule 7.2 for earthworks complying wi...

2. [2018] NZEnvC 210 Port of Tauranga Limited v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [pdf, 365 KB]

   ...Harbour. 4. There is also no operative rule that allows the discharge of contaminated water from the Port into the Harbour. Rule CD 5 of the proposed Regional Coastal Environment Plan provides that the discharge of stormwater to coastal water is a permitted activity provided that, among other things, the concentration of suspended solids in the discharge is not greater than 150 grams per cubic metre except where a 1 O-minute duration 10% annual exceedance probability storm event (...

3. 2020-12-16 ORC MOC Willowridge s 274 notice [pdf, 105 KB]

   ...served with this Application?); and (b) its view on the Application. Service 3 The Council considers that it would be appropriate for all parties to PC8 to be served with the Application. 4 Willowridge supports the removal of rules 14.5.1 (permitted earthworks activities) and Rule 14.5.2 (restricted discretionary earthworks activities). Other submitters have sought the removal of these rules and this was set out as a decision requested in the summary of submissions public...

4. 2021-04-23 TAs - MOC - supp evidence [pdf, 99 KB]

   ...evidence is to be filed. PURPOSE AND SCOPE 3. The TAs wish to call supplementary evidence regarding the following matters: (a) Details regarding the community water supply schemes that will be affected by Plan Change 7 including both expiring permits and new permits to accommodate growth. This will include information regarding the nature of the activities that are served by those supplies and projected growth requirements of them. This evidence will be produced by Mrs McGirr,...

5. 2021-04-23 TAs - MOC - supp evidence 2 [pdf, 99 KB]

   ...evidence is to be filed. PURPOSE AND SCOPE 3. The TAs wish to call supplementary evidence regarding the following matters: (a) Details regarding the community water supply schemes that will be affected by Plan Change 7 including both expiring permits and new permits to accommodate growth. This will include information regarding the nature of the activities that are served by those supplies and projected growth requirements of them. This evidence will be produced by Mrs McGirr,...

6. [2020] NZEnvC 219 Greater Wellington Regional Council v Crosbie [pdf, 3.3 MB]

   ...2020. [2] At the status hearing the Council sought to make an oral application for interim enforcement orders against the First and Second Respondents. I declined to consider that application unless it was formalised in the ordinary way. I did permit the taking of oral evidence from James Calvin Luty (a Senior Environmental Protection Officer at the Council). The Council has now formally applied for interim enforcement orders against the First and Second Respondents2. The applicatio...

7. [2010] NZEmpC 17 Secretary for Justice v Dodd [pdf, 17 KB]

   ...evidence is intended to go a little further and address a factual matter raised by the evidence of the plaintiff’s witnesses which Judge Roberts says he believes involved him. [4] It is correct, as Mr Sherriff submits, that the Court will not permit witnesses to second guess the justification for the dismissal by giving their opinions as to how they consider a fair and reasonable employer would have acted in all the circumstances. An attempt to do so in the early days of s 103A,...

8. [2023] NZEmpC 10 Pilgrim v The Attorney-General [pdf, 148 KB]

   ...JUDGMENT (NO 22) OF CHIEF JUDGE CHRISTINA INGLIS (Application to vary witness exclusion order) [1] The second defendants have sought a variation to the witness exclusion order I previously made in these proceedings. The variation is directed at permitting Serenity Valor, a witness for the second defendants who is yet to give evidence, to review the transcript and identify key evidence given in the proceedings, both to this point in time and for the remainder of the hearing. Es...

9. [2022] NZEnvC 006 Otago Regional Council [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...of new provisions and amendments to existing provisions to strengthen the Water Plan’s management of certain rural discharges.3 PC8 works alongside PC1 to the Regional Plan: Waste for Otago (Urban Discharges) and PC7 to the Water Plan (Water Permits) to ensure both water quantity and quality issues are addressed in the interim period before a new regional planning framework is in place.4 [3] PC8 and PC1 were developed together and notified at the same time. They were intended t...

10. [2021] NZEnvC 157 - Ireland v Marlborough District Council [pdf, 148 KB]

    ...The application for stay [4] Mr Ireland applies for stay of the notice on the grounds that:4 (a) there have been two dwellings on the Property since 1970; (b) the dwellings were lawfully established and constructed in accordance with building permits which were issued at the time and the planning regime which is described to permit two dwellings on the Property; (c) there has been no change in the scale or intensity of the specific land use activity; and (d) existing use rig...