[2021] NZEnvC 083 Director-General of Conservation v Thames- Coromandel District Council [pdf, 1.1 MB]
...Director-General criticised inadequate provisions in the proposed Thames-Coromandel District Plan to control earthworks where there was a risk of the pathogen Pi?Jtophthora agathidicida (Pa) being transferred from infected kauri trees to uninfected ones. [5] The relief in that appeal sought to amend provisions in three zones m the District Plan covering about 95% of it, the Conservation, Rural and Rural Lifestyle Zones. [6] The Court held in its decision on the relevant provisions...