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1. 2021-02-23 Minute PC7 Expert conferencing [pdf, 882 KB]

   ...(10min) Court (45min) ORC (30min) Nga Rūnanga (30min) Trustpower (30min) OWRUG (1hr) Lunch (12.45pm) Fish & Game Morgan Trotter Ecological Flow Evidence Summary (10min) Court (45min) ORC (30min) OWRUG (30min) Fish & Game Nigel Parageen Environmental Management Evidence Summary (10min) Court (45min) ORC (30min) Nga Rūnanga (30min) OWRUG (30min) Adjourn (5pm)draft Thursday 18 March 2021 - Hearing Day 9 - Dunedin (9.30am Start, 5pm Adjournment) Party Reference / Sub...

2. 2020-12-07 Statement of Evidence of Tom de Pelsemaeker on behalf of the ORC - Appendix B [pdf, 292 KB]

   ...proposed amendments are footnoted with a reference to either a submission in general or the particular part of a submission that gives the scope for the proposal. The coding used is that contained in the Summary of Decisions table prepared for the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and published on the EPA website. Where “consequential amendment” is noted, the amendment is a necessary consequence of a submission-based recommended amendment so that the overall integrity o...

3. Baker v Hemana - Tataraakina C (2020) 87 Takitimu MB 100 (87 TKT 100) [pdf, 277 KB]

   ...is the most effective technique. [47] It is important to also acknowledge that the Trustee has not accepted OSPRI’s preferred approach to control of pests on Tataraakina C. Mr Hemana has instead looked for a solution that would not only be environmentally friendly, but also take into account the 87 Tākitimu MB 113 owners wishes and protect wāhi tapu on the block. With these considerations in mind, Mr Hemana and OSPRI have reached a compromise and will undertake a comb...

4. [2021] NZACC 63 – Carr v ACC (20 April 2021) [pdf, 236 KB]

   ...November 2018, a VIMA was completed by an occupational medicine specialist, Dr Ruttenberg. His qualifications include MB ChB, MSc (Medicine) and Diploma in Occupational Medicine, and he is a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He reviewed 51 assessments, reports and other documents relating to Ms Carr’s condition, and he conducted an examination of her. He recorded that Ms Carr reported constant numbness and tingling affecting her left...

5. [2022] NZEnvC 186 Blue Wallace Surveyors Limited v Waikato District Council [pdf, 422 KB]

   ...3.15 confirms that Mr Tim Lester presented evidence or submissions on behalf of BWSL in support of the Nabbs & Forsyth submission regarding this Maaori Site of Significance. The decision report records: Mr Lester stated that all relevant environmental, cultural and landowner considerations need to inform a balanced evaluation prior to a MSOS [Maaori Sites of Significance] annotation being placed on private properties. In particular, Mr Lester requested that we recognise that con...

6. Croon v Māori Trustee - Kekerione 31B (2024) 84 Te Waipounamu MB 224 (84 TWP 224) [pdf, 285 KB]

   ...remaining land would still be available to lease under its current land use which is stock grazing. The Māori Trustee understands that Lois Croon has indicated the wish to continue to lease the remainder of the land after partition to ensure the environmental restoration work currently being undertaken is maintained. 84 Te Waipounamu MB 230 [23] I note for completeness that the Māori Trustee has power under the Trust Order to promote title improvements, per clause 3(b)(...

7. Tutt v Accident Compensation Corporation (Deemed Cover) [2023] NZACC 72 [pdf, 274 KB]

   ...acute disc herniation. [24] ACC’s Clinical Advisory Panel considered the appellant’s case in a report dated 20 July 2022. The Clinical Advisory Panel consisted of six orthopaedic surgeons, a sports medicine specialist and an occupation and environmental medicine specialist. [25] The CAP concluded that the appellant’s covered accidents, including those of 10 February 2020 and 31 August 2020 did not provide a causal link with the appellant’s lumbar disc deterioration and th...

8. [2024] NZEnvC 080 Digital Signs Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 282 KB]

   ...it is necessary that all relevant factual matters be known before a Court attempts to formulate a declaration, I do not accept that the 4 Re an application by Trolove C052/94 (PT). 5 Re Christchurch City Council [1995] NZRMA 129, 133-5. 6 Environmental Defence Society v Kaipara District Council [2010] NZEnvC 284 at [57]. 7 Karmakar v Auckland Council [2022] NZEnvC 23 at [18]-[19], upheld in Karmarkar v Auckland Council [2022] NZHC 1119 at [8]-[11]. 7 classification of a pro...

9. [2023] NZEnvC 159 Beachen v Auckland Council [pdf, 637 KB]

   ...PJ Schutte, at [5.2(b)]. 73 LUC60400809. 18 Discussion The resource consent for a new principal dwelling means that the existing cottage would become a minor dwelling and there would then be a new principal dwelling. The Assessment of Environmental Effects and the Council officer’s report make no mention of the tiny home, but it would have been on the property at the time the application for resource consent was made. Apparently, the Council officer did not visit the pro...

10. [2024] NZEnvC 281 Save The Maitai Incorporated v Nelson City Council [pdf, 294 KB]

    ...11 STM memorandum with comments on JWS dated 30 August 2024 at [10], referring to the interim decision at [114]. 12 STM memorandum with comments on JWS dated 30 August 2024 at [10]. 8 [19] It submits that this would make it clear that the environmental outcomes to be achieved are just as important as providing for subdivision and development.13 [20] The court noted that there was a lack of reference in objective RE6 and proposed policy RE6.1 to the risks associated with erosi...