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Hearings Committee
16 February
2016
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1 Apologies
2 Declaration of Interest
There were no declarations of interest.
Member DE Taipari entered the meeting at 2.01 pm
3 Confirmation of Minutes
4 Local Board Input
There was no local board input.
5 Extraordinary Business
There was no extraordinary business.
6 Notices of Motion
There were no notices of motion.
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Appointment of independent commissioners: Notice of Requirement
and applications for resource consent made by Watercare Services Limited for
the Runciman Water Reservoirs Project, Pukekohe
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Cr Dr C Casey entered the meeting at
2.02 pm.
Cr WD
Walker entered the meeting at 2.05 pm.
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Resolution number HEA/2016/3
MOVED
by Cr AJ Anae, seconded by Cr CM Penrose:
That the Hearings
Committee:
a) appoint Leigh McGregor
(Chair), Melean Absolum, Cherie Lane, and Bill Kapea to hear and make, under
sections 171 and 104 of the Resource Management Act 1991, a recommendation
and decisions on the Notice of Requirement and applications for resource
consent by Watercare Services Limited for the Runciman Water
Reservoirs Project at 108 Runciman Road, Pukekohe East.
b) delegate authority to the
chairperson of the Hearings Committee to make replacement appointments should
any of the appointed independent commissioners in (a) above be unavailable.
CARRIED
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Noting the urgent decisions of 17 December 2015 to designate
supplementary duty commissioners and appoint hearing commissioners
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Resolution number HEA/2016/5
MOVED
by Cr CM Penrose, seconded by Cr C Darby:
That the Hearings
Committee:
a) note the decision to
designate Leigh McGregor and Ian Munro to act as duty commissioners for the
period from 1 January 2016 to 1 July 2016.
b) note the decision to appoint
Karyn Sinclair (Chair), Mark Farnsworth and Bill Kapea to make a decision on
resource consent applications for the proposed New Old Mangere Bridge.
c) note the decision to appoint
Rebecca Macky (Chair), Alan Pattle, Robert Scott, and Hibiscus and Bays Local
Board Chair Julia Parfitt to make decisions on an application for resource
consent to establish and operate a managed fill facility, Blackbridge Road,
Pine Valley.
CARRIED
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10 Consideration
of Extraordinary Items
There was no consideration of extraordinary items.
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11 Procedural
motion to exclude the public
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Resolution
number HEA/2016/6
MOVED by Chairperson LA Cooper, seconded by Member
DE Taipari:
That the
Hearings Committee:
a) exclude
the public from the following part(s) of the proceedings of this meeting.
The
general subject of each matter to be considered while the public is excluded,
the reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter, and the
specific grounds under section 48(1) of the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 for the passing of this resolution follows.
This
resolution is made in reliance on section 48(1)(a) of the Local Government
Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 and the particular interest or
interests protected by section 6 or section 7 of that Act which would be
prejudiced by the holding of the whole or relevant part of the proceedings of
the meeting in public, as follows:
C1 Resource
Consent Appeals: Status Report 16 February 2016
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Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter
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Particular interest(s) protected (where applicable)
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Ground(s) under section 48(1) for the passing of this
resolution
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The public conduct of the part of the meeting would be likely
to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for
withholding exists under section 7.
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s7(2)(j) - The withholding of the information is necessary to
prevent the disclosure or use of official information for improper gain or
improper advantage.
In particular, the report contains information that could compromise
the council in undertaking without prejudice negotiations of these appeals
that are before the Environment Court.
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s48(1)(a)
The public conduct of the part of the meeting would be likely
to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for
withholding exists under section 7.
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C2 Noting
the urgent decisions of 17 December 2015: Madhava Limited v Auckland Council
and Gilbert v Auckland Council
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Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter
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Particular interest(s) protected (where applicable)
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Ground(s) under section 48(1) for the passing of this
resolution
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The public conduct of the part of the meeting would be likely
to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for
withholding exists under section 7.
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s7(2)(i) - The withholding of the information is necessary to
enable the local authority to carry on, without prejudice or disadvantage,
negotiations (including commercial and industrial negotiations).
In particular, the report contains information that could
compromise the council in undertaking without prejudice negotiations of
these appeals that are before the Environment Court.
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s48(1)(a)
The public conduct of the part of the meeting would be likely
to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for
withholding exists under section 7.
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C3 Noting
the urgent decision of 9 February 2016: Plan Change 372 Appeals - Three Kings
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Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter
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Particular interest(s) protected (where applicable)
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Ground(s) under section 48(1) for the passing of this
resolution
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The public conduct of the part of the meeting would be likely
to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for
withholding exists under section 7.
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s7(2)(i) - The withholding of the information is necessary to
enable the local authority to carry on, without prejudice or disadvantage,
negotiations (including commercial and industrial negotiations).
In particular, the report contains information that could
compromise the council in undertaking without prejudice negotiations of
these appeals that are before the Environment Court.
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s48(1)(a)
The public conduct of the part of the meeting would be likely
to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for
withholding exists under section 7.
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The text of these
resolutions is made available to the public who are present at the meeting
and form part of the minutes of the meeting.
CARRIED
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2.16pm The public was excluded.
Resolutions in relation to the confidential items are recorded in
the confidential section of these minutes and are not publicly available.
2.20pm The public was re-admitted.
restatementS
It was resolved while the public was excluded:
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C1
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Resource Consent Appeals: Status Report 16 February 2016
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Resolution
number HEA/2016/7
MOVED
by Member DE Taipari, seconded by Deputy Chairperson MP Webster:
That the Hearings Committee:
b) agree that the
report and attachments remain confidential, but agree that the list and
description of current appeals as of 4 February 2016,
apart from council’s status position on the appeals, be re-stated in the open
section of the minutes.
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Attachments
a 16 February 2016, Hearings
Committee, Item C1 - Status Report 16 February 2016
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C2
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Noting the urgent decisions of 17 December 2015: Madhava Limited v
Auckland Council and Gilbert v Auckland Council
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Resolution number HEA/2016/8
MOVED
by Cr CM Penrose, seconded by Member DE Taipari:
That the Hearings Committee:
c) agree that the decisions,
report and attachments regarding ‘Noting the urgent decision of 17 December
2015: Madhava Limited v Auckland Council and Gilbert v Auckland Council’, not
be re-stated in the open section of the minutes.
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C3
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Noting the urgent decision of 9 February 2016: Plan Change 372
Appeals - Three Kings
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Resolution number HEA/2016/9
MOVED
by Member DE Taipari, seconded by Cr AJ Anae:
That the Hearings Committee:
b) agree that the decisions,
report and attachments regarding ‘Noting the urgent decision of 9 February
2016: Plan Change 372 Appeals – Three Kings’, not be re-stated in the open
section of the minutes.
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2.20 pm The
Chairperson thanked Members for their attendance and attention to business and
declared the meeting closed.
CONFIRMED AS A TRUE AND CORRECT RECORD AT A MEETING OF
THE Hearings Committee HELD ON
DATE:.........................................................................
CHAIRPERSON:........................................................
