way that reflects the level of risk the subject
activity (risk-based approach) may pose to the environment and/or the wider community and given the
relatively robust basis for cost recovery of consent monitoring, there is no good reason why councils should
fall significantly short of fulfilling this expectation. For some, resourcing may simply be inadequate for the task,
which places undue stress on staff and management and should be addressed at a council level.
Council Meeting Agenda December 2022
and
evaluating the Government’s latest proposals:
Will they get good results? Is the science sound?
Are they practical, efficient and reasonable? And
most importantly, what impacts will they have on
families and communities?
The information supplied so far by the
Government and its advisers would appear to fall
short of adequately answering these questions.
We hope that Wellington will give the Taranaki
experience the careful consideration we believe
it deserves.
Councillor B K Raine
Councillor C S Williamson (via Zoom)
Councillor D L Lean (ex officio)
Representative Ms E Bailey (Iwi Representative)
Members Councillor G Boyde (Stratford District Council)
Mr J Hooker (Iwi Representative)
Councillor R Jordan (New Plymouth District Council)
Mr P Muir (Taranaki Federated Farmers)
Councillor C Coxhead (South Taranaki District Council)
Mr M Ritai (Iwi Representative)
Apologies Councillor D N MacLeod (ex officio)
Councillor P Nixon (South
a copy of the signed resource consent
please contact the TRC Consents department)
page
Water abstraction permits
Section 14 of the RMA stipulates that no person may take, use, dam or divert any water, unless the activity is
expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a regional plan, or it falls within some particular
categories set out in Section 14. Permits authorising the abstraction of water are issued by the Council
under Section 87(d) of the
McIntyre
B K Raine
N W Walker
C S Williamson
Apologies
Notification of Late Items
Item Page Subject
Item 1 4 Confirmation of Minutes
Item 2 10 Consents and Regulatory Committee Minutes
Item 3 17 Policy and Planning Committee Minutes
Item 4 23 Policy and Planning Hearing Committee
Item 5 30 Executive, Audit and Risk Committee Minutes
Item 6 37 Hearing Committee's report and Council decision on the draft
Taranaki Regional Council Biosecurity Strategy and
Freshwater physicochemical state of the environment monitoring report 2015-2016 - TRC.
habitable building and mitigation measures such as landscaping or screening.
However, this rule is moot based on the discretionary activity rule applying to the
surrounding properties discussed above which provides for the more onerous activity
status which would take precedence.
3.15 Those properties adjacent, on the western side of Airport Drive are zoned Residential
A under the ONDP and as noted in the Officer Report fall within the Area Q Structure
Plan, where they are
surface and pressurised. The
majority of irrigation systems currently in operation in the province fall in to the
pressurised category. Pressurised systems can be further differentiated based on the
method of operation and equipment used. A summary of the systems encountered in
the region and some of their advantages and disadvantages are summarised below:
K-line and long-lateral types – Impact sprinklers mounted on moveable laterals
(Photograph 1).
Advantages:
• low capital cost;
•