Background information on the call in of the Southdown Holdings Ltd, Williamson Holdings Ltd and Five Rivers Ltd proposals.
Below are copies of the official documents and advice the Minister for the Environment (Hon Dr Nick Smith) received from officials prior to making his decision to call in the three applications. These include copies of three briefing notes sent to the Minister detailing options for intervening in the process; notes tabled at a cabinet meeting on 19 January 2010; and copies of the letters sent to the applicants and to Environment Canterbury requesting their views on the call in.
Briefing Notes
- Briefing Note: Resource consent applications for dairy farming under-cover in the Mackenzie Basin – 8 January 2010
- Briefing Note: Ministerial intervention: Environment Canterbury under-cover farming resource consent applications - 14 January 2010
- Briefing Note: Mackenzie call-in: call in direction, appointment letters and terms of reference for Board of Inquiry – 22 January 2010
Correspondence
- Oral item to Cabinet – 19 January 2010
- Letter to applicant seeking views on call in
- Letter to Environment Canterbury seeking views on call in
- Letter acknowledging receipt of applicants’ views – 4 February 2010 (PDF, 327 KB)
Last updated: 19 March 2010
