District Council
G Boyde Stratford District Council
C Filbee South Taranaki District Council
Attending: S J Ruru Chief Executive
A D McLay Director – Resource Management
M J Nield Director – Corporate Services
A J Matthews Director – Environment Quality
L Hawkins Planning Manager
F Kiddle Strategy lead zoom
L Hawkins Policy Manager
F Jansma Scientist – Water Quality
T McElroy Manager - Science and Technology
A Collins Scientist – Water Quality
The Council strives to ensure its decision-making, planning and consenting processes are inclusive and collaborative to ensure that iwi perspectives can be properly considered.
Sole [10 Old Devon Road]; and
J Gibbons [1245 Devon Road].
9. The relevant sections of each submission are summarised in the table below.
Table 1: Summary of submissions
Submitter Summary of submission
BL & LM Relf noxious odours and airborne particulates continue to invade
their property, either in compliance with the existing consent
or as a result of mis-management, error or accident;
increasing the operation size of the farm by 74% will increase
the magnitude of the
Business category winners in the 2022 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category sponsor: Daily News Todd Energy - for a significant contribution to the safeguarding and protection of the Kapuni Awa. After major flooding on the Kapuni Awa (river) in South Taranaki in July 2021, Taranaki energy company Todd Energy invested in a 100m-long new rock wall. Around 1500m3 of land within the Nova Generation Solar Farm site was washed away during the major weather event, with sediment
The Council staff are organised under a chief executive and four directors. Senior management team Chief Executive and Directors Steve Ruru
Chief Executive
email Steve Ruru Abby Matthews Director-Environment Quality email Abby Matthews Daniel Harrison
Director-Operations
email Daniel Harrison Fred McLay
Director-Resource Management
email Fred McLay Mike Nield
Director-Corporate Services
email Mike Nield Operational structureThe Council employs a permanent staff with wide-ranging professional,
NP volunteers Julie and Tony Duff.
interpretations, and their significance for the environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented for the future monitoring of any hydraulic
fracturing activities at the Kapuni-J wellsite.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of
the report.
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as
positive or
The project to upgrade and restore Yarrow Stadium’s West Stand is raising the roof! Work started this week on installing the new fabric roof with the mahi expected to be completed before Christmas, weather permitting. Taranaki Regional Council Chair Charlotte Littlewood said it was great to see the work now under way. ”New Plymouth is the sunshine capital of Aotearoa but we had a pretty wet and wild winter which put the brakes on getting the roof on earlier in the year. We’re now hoping for