Part 1 - Palmerston North City Council

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maximum of 60,000m 3 . The gravel for the project will be sourced from the beach located adjacent to the
site where it has been calculated that 200,000m 3 is available.
Policy 2(i) is not relevant to this proposal.
Policy 3
The Lower Manawatu River or ANZAC Park Cliffs are not identified in the Regional Policy Statement as an
outstanding or regionally significant feature.
Policy 4
This policy relates to the management of fluvial gravel extraction and is of limited relevance to the proposal
as no gravel extraction is proposed. However, it is recognised that the gravel will be moved and locked in
place by the works, and that it will no longer be available to natural movement processes. The policy aims
to ensure that gravel extraction does not exceed the natural rates of replenishment, except where the
extraction is necessary to decrease the risk of flooding or damage to essential structures. As stated above
the Lower Manawatu River the maximum volume available for extraction is set at 60,000m 3 per year.
Calculations show that the proposed works will require approximately 115,000m 3 of gravel to be placed
behind the rock lining to provide support.
It is intended to take this gravel from the adjacent beach where there is approximately 200,000m 3 available.
The beach was previously a well‐used gravel extraction area with abstraction ceasing with the granting of a
global resource consent to the MWRC. Since then aggradation of river gravels has been observed at the
beach and as such it is anticipated that the beach will reform overtime. In addition the works are required
to decrease the risk of damage to essential structures such as the existing City stopbanks.
Policy 5
This policy aims to provide for structures and activities to mitigate the adverse effects of flood hazard. One
of the reasons for the proposed works is to provide long term protection for the flood protection structures
currently protecting Palmerston North City from floods.
Policy 6
Policy 6 requires recognition and provision for the relationship of tangata whenua, their culture and
traditions with their ancestral lands, water, sites of waahi tapu and other taonga in the beds of rivers and
lakes.
Te Motu o Poutoa is a site of significance to Maori and is located just downstream of the subject site. It is
possible that taonga, artefacts, or remains are located in the general locality of the subject site. It is
considered unlikely that any such taonga, artefacts or remains will be discovered in the excavation sites due
to it being within the active bed of the river.
Rangitane, represented by Tanenuiarangi Manawatu Incorporated, have been involved in the preparation
of an accidental discovery protocol in relation to the works proposed by the MWRC and PMB Landco Ltd.
This will ensure that an appropriate and acceptable process is followed in the event that a discovery is
made during the works.
Policy 7
This policy allows the Regional Council to use financial contributions as a condition of resource consent for
mitigating or offsetting adverse effects arising as a consequence of an activity. Such financial contributions
can be used for maintaining, restoring or enhancing flood protection or erosion control works, and/or
maintaining or enhancing public access to and along the margins of rivers and lakes.
In this instance the proposal is to construct and maintain new flood protection and erosion control works.
As a consequence of the proposal an opportunity is available to the PNCC to use the top of the rock lining to
create a public access along the left bank of the river. Therefore it is considered unnecessary to impose
further financial contributions on the applicant.
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