the relief
sought by many in the primary sector to allow for the grant of consent for
durations exceeding six years is not approved.
[6] A limited exception to the policy on duration has been made for existing
hydro-electricity generation activities. No exception has been made for
community water supplies, other than existing supplies which may increase
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historical take and use volume and rate limits in line with their current permits to
provide for
Minutes Consents and Regulatory Meeting - 9 June 2020
Item 3 18 Minutes Policy and Planning Meeting - 9 June 2020
Item 4 26 Minutes Executive, Audit and Risk - 22 June 2020
Item 5 31 Joint Committee Minutes
Item 6 51 July/August 2020 Meeting Dates
Item 7 52 Setting of administrative charges pursuant to section 36 of the
Resource Management Act 1991
Item 8 54 Adoption of the 2020/2021 Annual Plan
Item 9 153 Setting of Rates 2020/2021
Item 10 160 Public Excluded …
extent of compliance by the consent holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance during
the period under review. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both
environmental and administrative performance. The interpretations for these ratings are found in
Appendix II.
For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and
to help fund this network.
Affordability is both a local, regional and national issue. Therefore, new tools, such as time and location-
based charging to manage demand, are not just welcomed – they are necessary.
The current funding system based on Fuel Excise Duty (FED), Road User Charges (RUC) and rates is under
extreme pressure. The local government sector wish to work with the Ministry of Transport and NZTA in a
collaborative process to investigate and implement a
or plans to
raise debt during the life of this Plan.
BORROWING LIMITS
Total interest expense on net external public debt will not
exceed 40% of total annual rates and levies. Net external
public debt per capita will not exceed $500. These limits may
be exceeded if the Council is required to meet the obligations
of Port Taranaki Ltd under a guarantee in respect of any
proposed expansion.
BORROWING MECHANISMS
The Council will be able to borrow through a
that there may be other chances for Transport Choices funding and Public
Transport opportunities.
• Inflation has had a large impact, with cut backs in place to ensure rate payers are
not having to pay extra. Low cost low risk programmes have been deferred.
• The coastal walkway extension has had all Iwi informed with handover to follow
soon.
• An incident occurred involving a tree falling in Ōakura, resulted in NPDC being
found liable for the damage due to the tree’s position and
with consent 7470-1.2.
To monitor the exercising of consent 7470-1.2, abstraction volume and rate data are recorded electronically
and transferred to the Council via telemetry, so the data can be viewed in near real time.
Two groundwater monitoring bores are monitored to assess the potential effects of the abstraction on local
groundwater levels. Groundwater levels are monitored electronically by pressure transducers, programmed
to record measurements at 30 minute intervals.
Two
the on-
site activities, and compliance with the conditions of the consents during the period under review. The
monitoring programme for this year included nine inspections, one water sampling survey, one soil
sampling survey, and two in-stream biomonitoring surveys.
During the monitoring period, the site generally demonstrated a level of administrative performance
that requires improvement in terms of annual reporting. The environmental performance is rated ‘good’
rather than high’ due to
the Stratford Power Station continued to be well managed with negligible
environmental effects as a process of the exercise of their consents.
Surface water abstraction was compliant with daily rate and volume. Process water discharges were
compliant with consent defined parameters. Surface water monitoring indicated negligible impacts from the
discharge of process waters.
The thermal tolerances within the receiving waters were not exceeded for the duration of the monitoring
period.
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3.4 Map Co-ordinates at point of discharge (either Longitude/Latitude or NZTM):
________________________ Longitude ________________________ Latitude OR
________________________ E ________________________ N (NZTM)
3.5 Legal description of property at site of activity (refer to land title or rates notice)
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3.6 Assessment/Valuation number of property (refer