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Anyone can make a submission on a publicly notified resource consent application and we provide you with a guide to this formal process.
Hawke's Bay Regional Council publicly notifies resource consent applications when it is determined that the adverse effects will be, or are likely to be, more than minor. This is when the community has an opportunity to make submissions for or against the proposal.
Notices of any publicly notified resource consent applications are published in local newspapers and on this website (see below). Notices are usually in the newspaper serving the district where the proposed activity is to take place - most often Hawke's Bay Today and/or the local community paper.
Anyone can make a submission on a publicly notified resource consent application. This is a formal process. Please supply your submission to the Regional Council by the published due date.
The submission period, in accordance with section 97 of the Resource Management Act 1991, will commonly only be open for 20 working days. This is the period within which anyone may make a submission speaking to an application whether that be supporting, opposing or having a neutral stance on the matter.
After submissions have closed, it may be effective to hold a pre-hearing meeting to try and work through the issues raised by submitters.
If no agreement can be reached at the pre-hearing meeting, then the application may proceed to a formal hearing before a hearing panel appointed by the Regional Council.
If submitters wish to speak to their submission to the hearings panel, this is the setting where this process occurs.
There are a number of factors that contribute to the duration of a hearing, including the activity, number of submitters and the nature of the submissions.
The determination of what the hearing panel decided after hearing the submissions and weighing up all information from the formal hearing.
All submissions must be made in accordance with Form 13 of the RMA. Further documents can be attached to the submission.
An Everyday Guide to the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) is a set of booklets available from the Ministry for the Environment to help you with everyday matters under the RMA. The booklets explain specific RMA processes, your rights, and how you can get involved.
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has received applications for resource consents from the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, for the construction, use, maintenance and improvement of the state highway and associated infrastructure of State Highway 2. This consists of new bridges, culverts, underpasses, overpass, constructed wetlands, wetland restoration, stream restoration, stormwater management and road.
Submissions to this application closed at 5pm on 4 March, 2024.
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has received the following applications for resource consents (discharge permits) under the Resource Management Act 1991. These applications are to replace the existing consents associated with the operation of the existing Te Paerahi and Pōrangahau Wastewater Treatment Plants for a period of six and nine years respectively while construction occurs for a replacement.
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has received the following applications for resource consents under the Resource Management Act 1991. The applications are publicly notified in accordance with section 95A of the Resource Management Act 1991.
Submissions:
Opened: 20 January 2022
Closed: 18 February 2022 at 5.00pm
The applications are for consent to take and use groundwater from the Ruataniwha Basin under the Tranche 2 allocation framework set out under the Tukituki Catchment Plan (Plan Change 6).
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