responsible resource utilisation, to move closer to achieving sustainable
development of the region’s resources.
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1.1.4. Evaluation of environmental performance and administrative compliance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the consent holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance
during the period under review.
Environmental performance is concerned
wetland area between
2007 and 2012 but—
the annual rate of
wetland area loss has
reduced by 60%.
$1.2million
The Council has
increased its
biodiversity budget to
178
sites covering
119,103 hectares
are classed as Key
Native Ecosystems.
.
4,374
properties in the
Self-help Possum
Control Programme—
the largest participation
in NZ.
151,054Taranaki has
hectares
More than 90% approval rating for living
environment, parks and reserves and
Mann-Kendall test.
The sign (+/-) of the Kendall tau value was used to assess whether the trend was
positive or negative and the significance of the trend was determined using the p value
(p < 0.05 = significant).
When multiple correlations are undertaken, there is a chance that some will be found
to be significant purely by chance. In order to deal with this potential problem, the
Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate (FDR) method was applied to the results of
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categorised, 2 were rated ‘poor’, 1 was rated
‘improvement required’, 2 were rated ‘good’ and 14 ‘high’. During the year under review
there were eight incidents associated with the Whareroa site (five incidents linked with milk
spills requiring disposal of product via the marine outfall, two incidents involving
stormwater pond non-compliances and one incident requiring the disposal of milk permeate
to land). One Infringement Notice was issued during the 2012-2013 period relating to non-
compliant
being insufficient remaining capacity
at the time. There is growing evidence that the rate of natural sediment transport into the harbour has
increased in recent years, resulting in the Company having to remove greater volumes when dredging.
There were no unauthorised incidents recording non-compliance in respect of this Company’s maintenance
dredging campaign during the period under review.
During the year, the Company demonstrated a high level of environmental and administrative …
resources.
1.1.4. Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with the
region’s resources.
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is
performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance
by the Company, this report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and
administrative performance during the period under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the
receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year.
Administrative performance is concerned with the Contact Energy’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance
population growth district. This assessment will be
reviewed in December 2018.
Housing: In general all the indicators in this group have increased with the exception of the
housing affordability measure, which has improved. This leads us to believe that while the cost
of building or buying a first home in New Plymouth has increased, it is less than the rate of
affordability1.
Rent has continued to increase but the rate of change has decreased, therefore renting has
become