A respectful and responsible regard for the Taranaki region’s environment and our management
of its natural resources. Reporting allows evaluation and demonstration of the overall rate of
compliance by sector and by consent holders as a whole, and of trends in the improvement of our
environment.
• Council’s accountability and transparency. Reporting gives validity to investment in monitoring
and to assessments of effective intervention.
3. These compliance monitoring
being reported. During this period, the Company was fully compliant with lake levels
and demonstrated good compliance with rise and recession rate restrictions for the lower Pātea River. The
Company provided adequate residual flows within the Pātea River at all times.
The Company successfully operated the trap and transfer system. During the 2023/24 season three ‘target’
fish species were trapped in the Pātea fish trap: longfin eels, shortfin eels and banded kōkopu. Kōaro were
not found
adjacent streets,
which may require increased enforcement over time.
The downtown carpark continues to be under utilised at 18% even with the
weekly rate dropped from $50 to $25 per week and the hourly rate dropped
from $3 to $1.50 per hour.
2. Stratford District Council
Full detail in the tabled report. Meeting discussion key points below.
90% of the $8.5M budget for this financial year has been spent. Some
professional services such as road condition surveys are being undertaken by
NZTA
performance, while the remaining two (<1%) achieved a rating of poor.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by NPDC over the last several years, this
report shows that the consent holder’s performance remains at a good level.
This report includes recommendations for the 2024/25 year.
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Introduction 1
Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource Management Act 1991 1
1.1.1 Introduction
wellsite (Including: Street/road name, number, and locality)
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3.4 Legal description of property at wellsite (refer to land title or rates notice)
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3.5 Assessment/Valuation number of property (refer to land title or rates notice)
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land title or rates notice)
Map reference/s NZTM Co-ordinates at
point of activity
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Closest Waterbody
Provide the name of the closest
river or stream to the activity
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6) Iwi Consultation
The Council encourages engagement with tangata whenua as part of the application process.
For more information regarding engaging with tangata whenua please visit
the companies, which include a total of 77 conditions setting out the
requirements that they must satisfy.
The Council's monitoring programme included site inspections, the collection of discharge water samples,
and sampling of the receiving water body for physicochemical analysis. A hydrometric station is maintained
on the stream for the continuous measurement of flow rate and temperature.
Silver Fern Farms Ltd (Silver Fern Farms) bought the Graeme Lowe Protein Ltd (Graeme Lowe
Council) to monitor and assess the Company’s
environmental performance and compliance with its resource consents during the period under review.
During the monitoring period the Company’s environmental performance was rated as ‘improvement
required’, but it received a ‘high’ rating for administrative performance, resulting in an overall rating of
‘improvement required’.
The Company holds five resource consents which include a suite of conditions setting out the requirements
that the
the approach to addressing
rates and any shortfall in Port Taranaki Limited dividends.
McIntyre/Cloke
9. Upcoming Meeting Dates for February 2025
Resolved
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
a) received the memorandum Meeting dates for February 2025
b) noted the upcoming meeting dates.
Littlewood/Cram
10. Public Excluded
In accordance with section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987,
resolves that the public is
and that of consent holders to resource management and, ultimately, through the refinement of methods
and considered responsible resource utilisation, to move closer to achieving sustainable development of the
region’s resources.
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance