COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects (Wairau Housing Development) Amendment Order 2023
COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects (Wairau Housing Development) Amendment Order 2023
COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects (Wairau Housing Development) Amendment Order 2023: revoked, on 8 July 2023, by Schedule 1 clause 1(1) of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 (2020 No 35).
COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects (Wairau Housing Development) Amendment Order 2023
Version as at 8 July 2023

COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects (Wairau Housing Development) Amendment Order 2023
(SL 2023/133)
COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects (Wairau Housing Development) Amendment Order 2023: revoked, on 8 July 2023, by Schedule 1 clause 1(1) of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 (2020 No 35).
Cindy Kiro, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 12th day of June 2023
Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council
Note
The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.
Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.
This order is administered by the Ministry for the Environment.
This order is made under section 27 of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister for the Environment.
Order
1 Title
This order is the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects (Wairau Housing Development) Amendment Order 2023.
2 Commencement
This order comes into force on 16 June 2023.
3 Principal order
This order amends the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects Order 2020.
4 New schedule inserted
After the last schedule,—
(a)
insert the schedule set out in the Schedule of this order; and
(b)
make all necessary consequential amendments.
Schedule New Schedule 86 inserted
Schedule 86 Wairau Housing Development
cl 5
Project referred to expert consenting panel
1 Name of project
The name of the project is the Wairau Housing Development (the project).
2 Authorised person
The authorised person for the project is Hāpai Development Property Limited Partnership.
3 Description of project
The scope of the project is to subdivide approximately 4.5 hectares of land in Blenheim and do the following on that land:
(a)
construct a housing development comprising approximately 105 residential units:
(b)
develop land for private open space and public reserves:
(c)
construct or install infrastructure or structures associated with the subdivision, the housing development, and the open space and reserves.
4 Description of activities involved in project
The project may involve the following activities:
(a)
subdividing land:
(b)
demolishing buildings and other structures:
(c)
removing vegetation:
(d)
carrying out earthworks:
(e)
constructing residential units:
(f)
discharging stormwater (which may contain contaminants) onto land:
(g)
developing land for private open space and public reserves, including by landscaping and planting:
(h)
constructing or installing infrastructure or structures, including—
(i)
roads (which are intended to be vested in Marlborough District Council) and other accessways for vehicles; and
(ii)
driveways and car parking areas; and
(iii)
infrastructure for three waters services:
(i)
carrying out any other activities that are—
(i)
associated with the activities described in paragraphs (a) to (h); and
(ii)
within the scope of the project as described in clause 3 of this schedule.
5 Approximate geographical location
(1)
The project will occur on the following land in Blenheim:
(a)
46 Hospital Road:
(b)
land on Hospital Road that is adjacent to Wairau Hospital.
(2)
The legal description of the land on which the project will occur is Lots 9 and 10 DP 527731.
6 Persons who must be invited to comment on project
The panel must invite comments on any consent application relating to the project from the following persons (in addition to the persons listed in clause 17(6) of Schedule 6 of the Act):
(a)
the trustees, acting in their capacity as trustees, of the Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust:
(b)
the trustees, acting in their capacity as trustees, of the Ngāti Apa ki Te Rā Tō Post-Settlement Trust:
(c)
the Ngāti Apa ki Te Rā Tō Charitable Trust.
7 No further provision required
No further provision is necessary to give effect to decisions made by the Minister under section 24 of the Act in respect of the project.
Statement of reasons
This statement of reasons is published for the purposes of clause 4 of Schedule 3 of the Act
The Minister for the Environment (the Minister) has accepted this application for referral. The Minister considered the application against the criteria in the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 (the Act) and the Act’s purpose, and sought and considered written comments from the following:
the relevant Ministers listed in section 21(6) of the Act:
Marlborough District Council.
The Minister has accepted this application for the following reasons:
the project will help to achieve the purpose of the Act because—
it has the potential to generate approximately 219 direct full-time equivalent jobs per year over a 5-year design and construction period; and
it has the potential to increase housing supply through the construction of approximately 105 residential units; and
it is likely to progress faster than would otherwise be the case under the Resource Management Act 1991 standard processes:
any actual and potential effects on the environment, and proposed measures to avoid, remedy, mitigate, offset, or compensate for any adverse effects, can be appropriately tested by an expert consenting panel against Part 2 of the Resource Management Act 1991 and the purpose of the Act.
Rachel Hayward,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This order, which comes into force on 16 June 2023, amends the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects Order 2020. The effect of the amendment is to refer a project to an expert consenting panel for the purpose of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 (the Act). The referred project is the project named and described in new Schedule 83.
The effect of the referral is to authorise Hāpai Development Property Limited Partnership to apply under the Act, instead of under the Resource Management Act 1991, for resource consents relating to the project described in new Schedule 83.
The expert consenting panel will be appointed under Schedule 5 of the Act and make decisions in accordance with Schedule 6 of the Act.
Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.
Date of notification in Gazette: 15 June 2023.
Notes
1 General
This is a consolidation of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects (Wairau Housing Development) Amendment Order 2023 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.
2 Legal status
A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.
Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.
3 Editorial and format changes
The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.
4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation
COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 (2020 No 35): Schedule 1 clause 1(1)