Report and Decision
Draft Report and Decision
The Board of Inquiry released its Draft Report and Decision on the Hauāuru mā raki Wind Farm Proposal on 25 February 2011, as required under section 148 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA).
The Draft Report and Decision was provided to Contact Energy, the two affected councils (as a result of the Auckland Super City, those parts of the windfarm that were located in Franklin District are now within the Waikato District), all 83 submitters and the Minister for the Environment.
These parties had until 5pm on the 25 March 2011 to provide comments to the Board.
Volume 1 – Draft Decision Report (PDF, 3.64 MB)
Volume 2 - Annexures
- Annexure Index List (PDF, 130 KB)
- Annexure E - Board of Inquiry Adjournment actions – May 2009 (PDF, 321 KB)
- Annexure G - Affected party consents (PDF, 123 KB)
- Annexure I - Franklin District Council Assessment Criteria – Rules 23A.4.1 and 23B.4.1 (PDF, 159 KB)
- Annexure J - Chance Find Procedure (PDF, 1.56 MB)
- Annexure L - Biodiversity Remediation and Enhancement Scheme (PDF, 1.58 MB)
- Annexure M - District Conditions (PDF, 768 KB)
- Annexure N – Regional Conditions (PDF, 894 KB)
- Annexure O – Notice of Requirement Conditions (PDF, 661 KB)
- Annexure P - Legal descriptions of properties – District and Regional Consent applications (PDF, 935 KB)
- Annexure Q - Legal descriptions of properties – Notice of Requirement Conditions (PDF, 163 KB)
- Annexure R - Exceptions to Performance Standards (PDF, 112 KB)
- Annexure T - Traffic Generation and Plans (PDF, 57 KB)
- Annexure U - Monitoring Protocols for Avian Collision Victims (PDF, 450 KB)
- Annexure V - Landscape Management Guidelines (PDF, 1.72 MB)
Volume 3 - Annexures
- Annexure Index List (PDF, 135 KB)
- Annexure A - Application plans – Series 1429
- Block A (PDF, 3.71 MB)
- Block C (PDF, 9.07 MB)
- Block D (PDF, 11.17 MB)
- Block E (PDF, 4.73 MB)
- Block F (PDF, 6.06 MB)
- Block G (PDF, 9.29 MB)
- Block H (PDF, 2.05 MB)
- Block I (PDF, 5.70 MB)
- Block J (PDF, 2.65 MB)
- Internal Transmission Line (PDF, 10.86 MB)
- External Transmission Line (PDF, 11.68 MB)
- Legend (PDF, 0.97 MB)
- Annexure B - Additional District Conditions Plans (PDF, 5.16 MB)
- Annexure C - Additional Regional Conditions Plans (PDF, 5.32 MB)
- Annexure D - Additional Notices of Requirement Conditions Plans (PDF, 4.59 MB)
- Annexure F - Alternative alignment for Allan/Wright property (PDF, 1.17 MB)
- Annexure H - Proposed External Transmission Line corridor (PDF, 1.73 MB)
- Annexure K - External Transmission line corridor – Stage 3 (PDF, 574 KB)
- Annexure S - Earthworks Design Figures (PDF, 196 KB)
Comments on Draft Report and Decision
The 19 comments on the draft report and decision received by the Board of Inquiry are available to view below.
| Comments Number |
Name |
| 3 |
Allan, Eric and Wright, Elizabeth (PDF, 1.32 MB) |
| 14 |
Ball, Gavin and Jan (PDF, 327 KB) |
| 8 |
Bernard Brown Family Trust (PDF, 1.27 MB) |
| 16 |
Contact Energy Ltd and Contact Wind Ltd
|
| 13 |
Department of Conservation (PDF, 17.9 MB) |
| 2 |
Environment Waikato (PDF, 2.59 MB) |
| 6 |
Federated Farmers of New Zealand Incorporated (PDF, 471 KB) |
| 10 |
Gemmell, Richard (PDF, 67.1 KB) |
| 15 |
McCabe, Phil (PDF, 111 KB) |
| 11 |
New Zealand Wind Energy Association (PDF, 334 KB) |
| 17 |
Opie, Karen (PDF, 136 KB) |
| 4 |
Paulsen, Stephen and Donna (PDF, 2.02 MB) |
| 18 |
Raglan Point Boardriders Club (PDF, 669 KB) |
| 7 |
Ravensdown Fertiliser Co-operative Limited (PDF, 1.37 MB) |
| 5 |
Reeves, Alastair (PDF, 6.87 MB) |
| 9 |
Smith, Richard (PDF, 4.66 MB) |
| 19 |
Tainui Awhiro Ngunguru Te Po Ngunguru Te Ao Management Committee (PDF, 345 KB) |
| 1 |
Waikaretu School Board of Trustees (PDF, 173 KB) |
| 12 |
Walter, David and Pamela (PDF, 388 KB) |
Last updated: 27 May 2011