the companies, which include a total of 77 conditions setting out the
requirements that they must satisfy.
The Council's monitoring programme included site inspections, the collection of discharge water samples,
and sampling of the receiving water body for physicochemical analysis. A hydrometric station is maintained
on the stream for the continuous measurement of flow rate and temperature.
Silver Fern Farms Ltd (Silver Fern Farms) bought the Graeme Lowe Protein Ltd (Graeme Lowe
Council) to monitor and assess the Company’s
environmental performance and compliance with its resource consents during the period under review.
During the monitoring period the Company’s environmental performance was rated as ‘improvement
required’, but it received a ‘high’ rating for administrative performance, resulting in an overall rating of
‘improvement required’.
The Company holds five resource consents which include a suite of conditions setting out the requirements
that the
wellsite (Including: Street/road name, number, and locality)
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3.4 Legal description of property at wellsite (refer to land title or rates notice)
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3.5 Assessment/Valuation number of property (refer to land title or rates notice)
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adjacent streets,
which may require increased enforcement over time.
The downtown carpark continues to be under utilised at 18% even with the
weekly rate dropped from $50 to $25 per week and the hourly rate dropped
from $3 to $1.50 per hour.
2. Stratford District Council
Full detail in the tabled report. Meeting discussion key points below.
90% of the $8.5M budget for this financial year has been spent. Some
professional services such as road condition surveys are being undertaken by
NZTA
the approach to addressing
rates and any shortfall in Port Taranaki Limited dividends.
McIntyre/Cloke
9. Upcoming Meeting Dates for February 2025
Resolved
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
a) received the memorandum Meeting dates for February 2025
b) noted the upcoming meeting dates.
Littlewood/Cram
10. Public Excluded
In accordance with section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987,
resolves that the public is
a 1.1% decline nationally. This economic contraction is most keenly
felt for the mining sector, with particular impacts also on the construction, metal product
manufacturing and utilities section. Employment has dropped by 1.8% over this period, compared with
a 0.9% decline nationally. This has corresponded to an increase in the unemployment rate to 4.5%,
compared with 4.9% nationally5.
21. In the medium-term, the region is facing serious economic headwinds with the decline
achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 864 (89%) of a total of 967 consents monitored through the Taranaki
tailored monitoring programmes, while for another 75 (8%) of the consents a good level of environmental
performance and compliance was achieved. A further 26 (3%) of consents monitored required improvement
in their performance, while the remaining two (<1%) achieved a rating of poor.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent
and stormwater consents.
Ferndene Quarries Ltd received two abatement notices in relation to their groundwater consent. A
flowmeter had not been installed to record the rate of incidental groundwater take and an independent
monitoring programme had not been implemented to assess the effects of the quarry activity upon the
surrounding aquifer. The flowmeter was subsequently installed and data was telemetered to the Council
from October 2023. The Company was granted until 1 December 2024 to
the remaining two (<1%) achieved a rating of poor.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent holder over the last several
years, this report shows that the consent holder’s performance is improving in the year under review.
This report includes recommendations for the 2024/25 year.
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Compliance monitoring programme reports and the
and compliance was achieved. A further 26 (3%) of consents monitored required improvement
in their performance, while the remaining two (<1%) achieved a rating of poor.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent holder over the last several
years, this report shows that the consent holder’s performance remains at a level that requires improvement.
This report includes recommendations for the 2024/25 year, including a recommendation relating to an