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1. [2020] NZSSAA 6 (28 April 2020) [pdf, 101 KB]

   ...relevant clauses are: 3 Interpretation (2) In these regulations, a significant event, in relation to a beneficiary's family member, includes the following events: 4 (a) serious illness or serious injury or imminent death: 5 Permitted reasons for absence The permitted reasons for absence for the purposes of regulation 4(a) are 1 or more of the following: (a) to attend a job interview or follow up on a job prospect: (b) to attend a significant event relating...

2. [2021] NZEnvC 062 Kombi Properties Limited (formerly HFT Limited) v Auckland Council [pdf, 2.6 MB]

   ...activities within the LIZ that do not generate objectionable odour, dust or noise. This includes manufacturing, production, logistics storage, transport and distribution activities. [32] A wide range of light industrial activities are provided for as permitted activities which are listed in an activity table 14 although some are required to follow a consenting pathway. [33] For the LIZ, the anticipated level of amenity is lower than other business zones (excluding the Heavy Industri...

3. OWRUG - EiC - H T Craw - Horticulture (4 Feb 2021) [pdf, 145 KB]

   ...consent period of 6 years is that it creates uncertainty around productivity and this uncertainty requires anyone investing, to seek additional comfort. 8. Put simply, banks have to account for the risk that at the end of year 6 of a water permit renewal, that access to irrigation water could cease entirely. Given that irrigation development generally takes 5 years to start showing a return on capital, that is highly problematic. I would expect new irrigation investment to cea...

4. [2020] NZEnvC 127 Lindis Catchment Group Incorporated v Otago Regional Council [pdf, 236 KB]

   ...(“LCG”) on the Otago Regional Council’s decision on Plan Change 5A regarding a flow management regime for the Lindis River which sets a minimum flow and primary allocation of water. A related direct referral application1 for a suite of water permits to take water from the Lindis River was heard at the same time however separate decisions2 were issued. [2] In its Interim Decision3 on PC5A issued on 7 October 2019 the court reserved its decision as to costs and did not set a...

5. [2017] NZEnvC 202 MacKenzie District Council [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...the following grounds2 (by way of summary): (a) the vulnerability of the resources at issue; (b) the irreversible effects of clearance; (c) the strategic importance of the plan change; (d) a concern that notification may prompt an escalation in permitted clearance activity; and (e) a related concern that a gold rush will undermine both the intentions of the Plan review process for biodiversity values and the protections for landscape values put in place following resolution of P...

6. ORC outline conditions for surface water takes [pdf, 176 KB]

   Water Permit - Surface Take Condition X: Abstraction details The take and use of surface water as primary allocation from [name of waterbody] and the retake of primary allocation water from XX at the map reference(s) specified above and the land legally described above for [state purpose e.g. potable/irrigation and irrigation area (if irrigation water) or number of people (if potable water) water to [state type of activity] must be carried out in accordance with the plans and all infor...

7. Galvin v Ngātai - Whakapoungakau 15B Sec 10 (2025) 329 Waiariki MB 206 (329 WAR 206) [pdf, 267 KB]

   ...tenants of the Whakapoungakau 15B sec 10 block. [4] At the hearing of the interim injunction, I stated that the inquiry into the Reservation that has been requested would be focussed. The scope of the inquiry would be: (a) Whether the trustees have permitted activities to occur on the land which are outside the purposes of the Reservation; and (b) The lack of written tenancy agreements with the existing kaumātua tenants of the Reservation. [5] On 18 September 2024, I held a hear...

8. Appendix-4-Additional-submissions.pdf [pdf, 2.8 MB]

   ...force, I transitioned to the private sector in 2000. As a security consultant and director of C4 Group Ltd, New Zealand's premier security training provider, I've helped shape industry standards and practices. I currently hold multiple security licences and over my career have been active in many key professional security industry organisations. I believe that my blend of policing experience and private sector leadership makes me an authority on security training, tactics, and industr...

9. 2021-04-21 Transcript (up to end of day 19) [pdf, 3.4 MB]

   ...yes they’re important or yes there will be chaos or whatever, but we are really trying to dig into what is known if anything about the exercise of those priorities. It seems 25 to us that the government had a transitional provision for deemed permits for a period of 30 years, which is to finally expire on 1 October 2021 – that is obviously a matter of submission – but that the government had assumed that, when it did expire, that there would be a fit-for-purpose water plan, w...

10. 2021-04-21 Transcript (up to end of day 19) [pdf, 3.4 MB]

    ...yes they’re important or yes there will be chaos or whatever, but we are really trying to dig into what is known if anything about the exercise of those priorities. It seems 25 to us that the government had a transitional provision for deemed permits for a period of 30 years, which is to finally expire on 1 October 2021 – that is obviously a matter of submission – but that the government had assumed that, when it did expire, that there would be a fit-for-purpose water plan, w...