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1. 2022-04-01 QLDC - Closing submissions [PDF, 187 KB]

   ...earthworks on water quality has been to employ the PDP to do all it can to control the land uses that might lead to discharges. 5.2 During the hearing a number of questions were directed towards the requirements that the operative regional policy statement and National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 (NPSFM 2020) place on district councils to address the effects of land uses on water quality. 5.3 Ms Hunter was questioned in regard to the proposition that the PDP’s C...

2. Transcript - Dunedin - Hearing - PC7 - 17 May to 20 May 2021 [pdf, 2.9 MB]

   ...itself isn’t a difficulty. It’s just a question of finding things around the edges that's all. Q. Yeah, I know, as the hearing rolls on. Okay. Anyway you've got your own witness to talk to and to find out what he knows about the consenting 30 regime. I mean I’ll take it from you that you don’t know what the consenting regime is. A bit surprising that you can't just dial it up and go 9 OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL v NGA RUNANGA & Ors NOE ENV DUNEDIN - (1...

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

   ...reserved. REASONS GIBBSTON VINES LTD v QLDC - INTERIM DECISION 2 Introduction [1] Gibbston Vines Limited ('GVL') appeals a decision of Queenstown Lakes District Council ('QLDC') declining its subdivision and land use consent application ('Appealed Decision'). The application was for a seven lot residential subdivision and development of land (the 'Site')1 in the Gibbston Valley of the Queenstown Lakes District. [2] A number of Gibbston...

4. 2021-03-19 Fish & Game 1 Proposed National Environmental Standard on Ecological Flows and Water Level as at 19 March 2021 [pdf, 495 KB]

   ...10 2.5 Examples of environmental flows applied to a river 12 2.6 Technical methodologies used for setting ecological flows and water levels 14 3 How Could National Direction Address Issues with Ecological Flows and Water Levels? 15 3.1 Problem statements 15 3.2 Policy objectives 17 4 The Options 19 4.1 Preferred option: an NES that sets interim limits and technical methods for ecological flows 19 4.2 Status quo 20 4.3 A national directive to set environmental flows 21 4.4 Nationa...

5. 2021-05-13 Wise Response – ORC PC7 Opening Submissions [pdf, 127 KB]

   ...of doing things is not sustainable management. Plan Change 7 is Environmental 11) The purpose of plan change 7 (PC7) is said to be transitional. In essence, it seeks to provide a framework through which to consider applications for consents to replace the large number of consents due to expire before a Land and Water Plan is prepared that gives effect to the National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management. 12) Wise Response, however, sees the plan as not merely tra...

6. [2023] NZEnvC 224 Waikato District Council v Tas Developments Limited [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...Judge MJL Dickey Last case event: 16 October 2023 Date of Decision: 27 October 2023 Date of Issue: 27 October 2023 DECISION OF THE ENVIRONMENT COURT Under ss 314, 316 and 279(1)(b) of the Resource Management Act 1991, the Environment Court, by consent, orders that: A: The First Respondent is to apply for the necessary resource consents and building consents (Consents) to authorise the works outlined in Order B by 15 November 2023 and comply in a timely manner with any requests...

7. E37 Gemma Chuah - Stormwater - EIC - Council [pdf, 767 KB]

   31654827:637695 BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT I MUA I TE KOOTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA IN THE MATTER of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) AND IN THE MATTER of a direct referral application under section 87G of the RMA for resource consents for the necessary infrastructure and related activities associated with holding the America’s Cup in Auckland BETWEEN PANUKU DEVELOPMENT AUCKLAND LIMITED (ENV-2018-AKL-000078) Applicant AND AUCKLAND COUNCIL Reg

8. [2018] NZEnvC 008 Adams v Auckland Council [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...memorandum, but does not accept a proposition by a Council witness, Mr Roberts, that under the decision version of the Unitary Plan Residential Capacity is not an issue for the Auckland region. This also relates to the issue of the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS­ UDC) to which reference was made by a number of witnesses. The tenor of the Housing 3 Corporation's experts' evidence is that, whilst they accept that three dwellings is better than the Co...

9. [2018] NZEnvC 008 Adams v Auckland Council [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...memorandum, but does not accept a proposition by a Council witness, Mr Roberts, that under the decision version of the Unitary Plan Residential Capacity is not an issue for the Auckland region. This also relates to the issue of the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS­ UDC) to which reference was made by a number of witnesses. The tenor of the Housing 3 Corporation's experts' evidence is that, whilst they accept that three dwellings is better than the Co...

10. Bowden v The Real Estate Agents Authority (CAC 403) and Bloemendal [2018] NZREADT 48 [pdf, 179 KB]

    ...to be done up. 1 Complaint C20545, re Kerry Bowden. The decision is incorrectly dated 19 January 2017. [6] Mr Bowden responded to the complaint, saying that he did not make a categorical statement that the land was “not subdivisible”. Rather, he said that he told Ms Bloemendal that it was possible to “get around the minimum size if you submitted a house plan showing compliance with all relevant aspects of the District Pla...