Key Issues Report of the Porirua City Council - Environmental ...

1 PURPOSE
1.1 On the 15 th August 2011, the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) in
conjunction with Porirua City Council (PCC) and Transpower New Zealand
Limited (Transpower) gave Notice's of Requirement and made associated
applications for resource consent with the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) for a proposal generally referred to as the 'Transmission Gully Project'.
1.2 In accordance with Section 149G(3) of the Resource Management Act 1991
(the Act), the Environmental Protection Authority has commissioned the
Porirua City Council to prepare a report on the key issues of the Transmission
Gully Project (hereon referred to as TGP). The purpose of this report is to
contextualise TGP within Porirua City's planning framework and instruments
and to identify any key issues.
1.3 Various Notices of Requirement (NoR) have been given/issued as part of TGP
reflecting the two requiring Authorities and the cross-boundary nature of them.
Applications for resource consent have also been made due to activities
associated with the construction of the proposed roads not being permitted by
the various plans that fall within the jurisdiction of the Greater Wellington
Regional Council. Resource consent has also been applied for the relocation of
the existing transmission lines. This report is limited to those matters pertaining
to NoR3 (Transmission Gully Main Alignment - TGM), NoR5 (Kenepuru Link
Road), NoR7 (Whitby Link Road), NoR8 (Waitangarua Link Road) and that
part of the transmission line being relocated within the Porirua City boundaries.
1.4 Section 149G(3) of the Act requires the following:
(3) The EPA must also commission the local authority to prepare a report on
the key issues in relation to the matter that includes—
(a) any relevant provisions of a national policy statement, a New Zealand
coastal policy statement, a regional policy statement or proposed
regional policy statement, and a plan or proposed plan; and
(b) a statement on whether all required resource consents in relation to the
proposal to which the matter relates have been applied for; and
(c) if applicable, the activity status of all proposed activities in relation to
the matter.
2 SCOPE
2.1 This report identifies the key issues in relation to TGP that includes those items
listed in S149G(3) (see para 1.4). As well the inclusion of those listed items the
EPA has requested that the Council should provide the following:
"(d) confirmation of the status, and weighting if proposed, of any relevant
regional policy statement, and or relevant plan; and
(e) Detail of the permitted baseline and existing environment for the resource
consents applied for within your jurisdiction. This will include:
• The permitted base line, and details of any relevant consents held in the
area that form the existing environment within your authority’s
jurisdiction.
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