Federated Farmers of New Zealand Inc v Bay of Plenty Regional Council

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

Environment Court of New Zealand

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

26/09/2017

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Adaptation

SUBJECT MATTER

Water

REVIEW TYPE

Merits review

SUMMARY

(Lexis Catchwords & Digest)

Local government — Administration — Plan changes — Appropriate nitrogen allocation

Determination on appeal. The appellants appealed against decision of respondent council to use sector range method to allocate nitrogen to rural land uses in subject lake catchment area. Parties agreed that hearing of appeals was to be held in two stages and that present proceedings related for first stage which focused on determining most appropriate nitrogen allocation approach. Finding that, by way of overall comparison of two allocation methods, sector range method was most appropriate by significant margin and on most bases of comparison. Ordered that most appropriate method to allocate nitrogen to rural land uses in subject catchment was sector range method. Determination made.

CASE DOCUMENTS

Federated Farmers of New Zealand Inc v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [2019] NZEnvC 136