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1. Water Services Regulator Bill Advice [pdf, 102 KB]

   ...protected; d. ensure more people can access water that is safe to drink, by requiring all suppliers (except individual domestic self-suppliers) to be part of the regulatory system, and to provide safe drinking water on a consistent basis; e. lift the environmental performance and transparency of wastewater and stormwater networks; and, f. improve national-level leadership, oversight, and support relating to wastewater and stormwater. Consistency of the Bill with the Bill...

2. Ravensdown Limited - 93 [pdf, 214 KB]

   ...carmen@planzconsultants.co.nz mailto:carmen@planzconsultants.co.nz 5 A copy of this notice has been served on the following parties: Ballance Agri-Nutrients Limited Private Bay 12503 Tauranga Mail Centre TAURANGA 3143 Attention: Dominic Adams Environmental Manager Email: Dominic.Adams@ballance.co.nz Waikato Regional Council Private Bag 3038 Waikato Mail Centre HAMILTON 3240 Email: PC1Appeals@waikatoregion.govt.nz mailto:Dominic.Adams@ballance....

3. Final Env-Reg-Report-2018-19 [pdf, 188 KB]

   ...responsible for ensuring the orderly and expeditious discharge of the business of the court. 1.4 The Court’s Jurisdiction The Environment Court is a specialist court of record established under section 247 of the RMA. It’s the primary environmental adjudicative body in New Zealand. It has jurisdiction over environmental and resource management matters. It can be characterised as follows: • a presiding Judge and two Environment Commissioners sit together to hear and dete...

4. Final Env-Reg-Report-2023-24 [pdf, 448 KB]

   ...Commissioner Prime’s services to Aotearoa New Zealand have been recognised by many prestigious awards. In his time with the Court, he has conducted and resolved many cases through mediation and sat on many cases of significance adding greatly to environmental jurisprudence. Commissioner Prime is highly regarded by all staff and judicial officers within the Environment Court and his work with the Court over the past 20 years leaves a rich legacy. There were no new Environment Comm...

5. [2024] NZEnvC 294 Whakatane District Council v Ohope International Golf Club Incorporated [pdf, 1.6 MB]

   ...planted specimens reach a minimum of 2 metres in height, if the time required to achieve the later extends beyond 10 years. This management is additional to any dune ecosystem management that the Golf Club may carry out pursuant to with the environmental programme agreement between BOPRC and other parties, including WDC, TRONA and the Golf Club (“Environmental Programme”). Plant sourcing All plants should be sourced from the coastal eastern Bay of Plenty. All plants will ne...

6. ENV-2016-AKL-000211 Okura Holdings Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 140 KB]

   ...Report, attached as Appendix B) were all thoroughly addressed by the IHP in its recommendation which was based on a full consideration of the evidence presented by all parties. (d) OHL's proposed development will have significant positive environmental effects. Page 3 Relief Sought 8. OHL seeks the following relief: (a) That the Rural Urban Boundary be extended in Okura to the location recommended by the IHP. (b) That the land included within the extended Rural Urban...

7. BORA Resource Management (Enhancement of Iwi Management Plans) Amendment Bill [pdf, 314 KB]

   ...importance, including "(e) The relationship of Maori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water, sites, waahi tapu [sacred places], and other taonga [treasures]". By s 7 particular regard is to be had to a list of environmental factors, beginning with "(a) Kaitiakitanga [a defined term which may be summarised as guardianship of resources by the Maori people of the area]". By s 8 the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi are to be taken into acc...

8. [2022] NZEnvC 078 Whangarei District Council v Sustainable Solvents Groups Limited [pdf, 316 KB]

   ...and clean- up the mess the Respondents had created. WDC submit that this common enterprise, 2 These costs total $3,053,090.55. [4] [5] [6] [7] 4 while perhaps not a joint venture in a legal sense, cannot excuse one party from the environmental consequences which flow from the common enterprise that the parties undertaking such venture have created. Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Respondents position The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Respondents oppose the application on that basi...

9. ORC PC8 Hearing Schedule - Urban - Draft 8.3.22 [pdf, 85 KB]

   ...Cross-Examination Friends of Lake Hayes Richard Bowman and/or Mike Hanff Lay Evidence Evidence Summary (10min) XXN (TBC) Court (30min) Willowridge Alison Devlin Lay Evidence Evidence Summary (10min) XXN (TBC) Court (30min) Willowridge Quinn McIntyre Environmental Management Evidence Summary (10min) XXN (TBC) Court (30min) Willowridge Claire Hunter Planning Evidence Summary (10min) XXN (TBC) Court (30min) Lunch (1pm) Placeholder Other Parties (TBC) Closing Submissions (may...

10. [2023] NZEnvC 080 Canterbury Regional Council [pdf, 201 KB]

    ...application for declaration dated 15 February 2023 as well as the applications for additional and/or alternative declarations filed by New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers Incorporated and by North Canterbury Fish and Game Council and the Environmental Defence Society Incorporated jointly, both dated 15 March 2023. 5 As was raised in the court’s Minute dated 17 April 2023 at [17] and recorded as accepted by parties in CRC’s memorandum dated 20 April 2023. 3 [4] Manawa...