Resource Consent Application - Dunedin City Council

Applicant: Dunedin City Council

The Otago Regional Council has received applications from the Dunedin City Council for resource consents to undertake reclamation work at three locations in the coastal marine area between Vauxhall and Macandrew Bay, Otago Peninsula. The reclamations are part of a project to widen sections of the road along the Otago Peninsula to improve traffic safety, including bus manoeuvring at Glenfalloch. To allow for the road widening an existing boatshed at Macandrew Bay will be relocated.

Application No: RM10.391.01 – Coastal Permit
To discharge contaminants to the coastal marine area for the purpose of reclamation activity, erection of seawall and deposition of rock material

Application No: RM10.391.02 – Coastal Permit
To occupy the coastal marine area with a seawall for the purpose of erosion protection

Application No: RM10.391.03 – Coastal Permit
To occupy the coastal marine area for the purpose of undertaking works associated with reclamation activity, erection of seawall and deposition of rock material

Application No: RM10.391.04 – Coastal Permit (Restricted Coastal Activity)
To reclaim part of the coastal marine area for the purpose of widening an existing road and relocating a boatshed.

Application No: RM10.391.05 – Coastal Permit
To disturb the coastal marine area for the purpose of reclamation activity, erection of seawall and deposition of rock material

Application No: RM10.391.06 – Coastal Permit
To deposit rock material within the coastal marine area for the purposes of reclamation activity, erection of seawall and deposition of rock material

Locations:
Site 1: Macandrew Bay, approximately 80 metres west northwest of the intersections of Marion Street and Portobello Road, Dunedin.
Map Reference: NZMS 144: 231-793
GPS: 4917642E, 1412612N

Site 2: Glenfalloch, starting at a point approximately 140 metres west of the intersection of Howard Street and Portobello Road, Macandrew Bay and continuing in a south westerly direction for approximately 250 metres.
Map Reference: (between) NZMS I44: 224-787 and NZMS I44: 225-789
GPS: (between) 1412569E, 4917077N and 1412669E, 4917266N.

Site 3: Doon Street, starting at a point approximately 95 metres north northwest of the intersection of Doon Street and Portobello Road, Vauxhall and continuing in a southerly direction for approximately 120 metres.
Map Reference: (between) NZMS I44: 178-775 and NZMS I44: 179-776
GPS: (between) 1408052E, 4915836N and 1408136E, 4915981N.

Legal Description: Crown Land, Seabed

The application includes an assessment of environmental effects and may be inspected at the Council’s office at 70 Stafford Street, Dunedin. Please contact Jamie Torrance at the Otago Regional Council on freephone 0800 474 082 if you have any questions about the application.

Any person may make a submission on the application. You may do so by sending a written submission to the Otago Regional Council, Private Bag 1954, Dunedin. Copies of a submission form are available from the Otago Regional Council office at 70 Stafford Street, Dunedin. The form can also be downloaded from our website at www.orc.govt.nz and following the path of Resource Consents/Open for Submission.

You can also make your submission by emailing it directly to submissions@orc.govt.nz.

Email submission conditions apply as follows:

• Only the email address above can be used. Submissions sent to other email addresses at the Otago Regional Council will not be accepted.
• An acknowledgment of your submission will be sent by return mail following the close of submissions.

These conditions apply only to email submissions to Otago Regional Council’s publicly notified applications.

Submissions, either written or emailed, must include the following information:

1. Your full name, postal address, telephone number (and fax number if applicable),
2. Details of the applications in respect of which you are making the submission,
3. The specific parts of the applications that your submission relates to,
4. Your submission, with reasons for your views,
5. Whether you support, oppose or are neutral regarding the applications or specific parts of it,
6. The decision you are seeking from the consent authority,
7. If you wish to be heard in support of your submission, and
8. If others make a similar submission, if you will consider presenting a joint case with them at a hearing.
9. Your signature, if posting or delivering a written submission to Council.

Submissions close at 5pm Friday 26th November 2010

You must serve a copy of your submission on the applicant whose address for service is Dunedin City Council, C/- OPUS International Consultants, Private Bag 1913, Dunedin 9054 Attention: Jane Loten as soon as reasonably practicable after serving your submission on Otago Regional Council.

R W Scott
Director Corporate Services
Private Bag 1954
Dunedin
Freephone 0800 474 082