Search Results

1. Appendix-13-Combined-Section-92-NOR-and-Resource-Consents.pdf [pdf, 771 KB]

   ...41. Para 194 (Page 105) states that culverts that have been designed based on the stream stimulation culvert design will also have a riparian zone upstream and downstream that is planted. This is proposed to be for the length of stream within the designation. Would the Applicant please identify the condition that addresses the intent of Para 194? 42. Para 209 (Page 117) refers to the potential for offsetting for outlet structures which discharge stormwater from treatment facilities, but...

2. Framing the Summit [pdf, 977 KB]

   ...bonds/ networks to support a just and humane society? 8. How might we imagine and articulate a new paradigm for justice that takes into account economics, experiences, and social wellbeing? 9. How might we debate the focus of a system currently designed to ‘lock people up’? 10. How might we address the role of the justice system in the colonisation of Māori? What problems is the summit addressing? 11. We do not have a shared, audacious, worthwhile aspiration for the system (e.g....

3. [2019] NZEnvC 115 Gibbston Vines Limited v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 17 MB]

   ...27.9.1 .1). (26] There are no equivalent rules for the identification of building platforms for commercial buildings. In essence, the identification of residential building platforms is part of a set of controls on the intensity, pattern and design of residential development within the GCZ. [27] The Proposal (including proposed condition 18( ddd)) is consistent with that intention. It is within the legitimate scope of the application to seek a consent notice condition to the eff...

4. [2024] NZEnvC 176 Waimarino Queenstown Limited v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 942 KB]

   ...being detached buildings, generally one or two storeys in height, and separated from other buildings not just horizontally but vertically by open space and vegetation. [35] The Panel otherwise acknowledged the effort taken by the appellant to design the proposal to a high standard of visual design quality, noting that an activity of the sort proposed by the appellant is not something that is inherently unacceptable, including the various proposed ancillary functions. However, it wa...

5. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 DM expert Dennis Scott [pdf, 364 KB]

   ...littlejohn@quaychambers.co.nz PO Box 106215 AUCKLAND 1143 1 INTRODUCTION 1. My name is Dennis John Scott. Qualifications and Experience 2. I am a Landscape Architect specialising in landscape planning, analysis and assessment and land use design and management in urban, rural and coastal environments. 3. I hold the qualifications of a Diploma in Urban Valuation (1969) and a postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture (1974). I am a Registered Landscape Arch...

6. [2021] NZEnvC 033 Minister of Conservation v Northland Regional Council [pdf, 3.5 MB]

   ...non-consumptive takes as "alternative minimum flows". 9 The proposed additional wording to require that the best information available is used in calculating allocation limits and minimum flows and levels has been included at the start of H.4 Environmental flows and levels, rather than in Policy D.4.12.10 Relocating the additional wording is necessary to ensure that it applies to allocation limits and minimum flows and levels, as Policy D.4.12 applies only to minimum flows and l...

7. Ngai Tai ki Tamaki [pdf, 376 KB]

   ...for Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki to participate in the option selection process of the final America’s cup proposal or have effective input into the aspects of the proposal that may impact on cultural values, including site selection, base layout and design, and the final selection process; (g) The Assessment of Environmental Effects does not contain appropriate assessment of effects on cultural values/interests; (h) There has been insufficient cultural considerations and input into the l...

8. [2020] NZEnvC 015 Goatley Holdings Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...will not be changed as a result of the hearing of any appeal and would be carried through to final consent even if other terms have changed. [4] As a matter of precaution, I have also checked with Ms Toan for Stellan Trust, who have appealed the designation consent, whether or not they were concerned about vegetation removal issues. She notes that firstly, their appeal relates to conditions only and secondly, does not raise vegetation matters as an issue either. [5] No other party h...

9. [2022] NZEnvC 079 Woolworths New Zealand Limited [pdf, 320 KB]

   ...mediation) to the end of the hearing process in the sum of $155,174.68 (out of a total of $197,039.60) attributable only9 to the expert witnesses and not for legal costs. [11] Discounts have been applied to the actual costs of the economic, urban design and planning experts, limiting recovery to an amount considered to be reasonable. Reductions of 25% were made to the planning and economic witness costs, with a 20% reduction to the urban design witness costs. [12] The Council pu...

10. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 DM expert Steve White [pdf, 135 KB]

    ...programme if the project proceeds. 11 LITTER AND REFUSE 34. The accumulation of litter within marinas is an issue that may not be caused by the marina users themselves, but it still needs to be managed. Waste facilities need to be designed in such a way as to be effective at preventing material blowing out of the bins into the marine environment. Sufficient bins and facilities need to be provided to allow for waste and recycling generated by the marina and its users...