Selwyn Times: July 18, 2018
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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Wednesday <strong>July</strong> <strong>18</strong> 20<strong>18</strong> 3<br />
News<br />
Consultation starts<br />
over intensive farming rules<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
SWEEPING changes could be<br />
brought in to regulate intensive<br />
farming rules in the district.<br />
The district council wants to<br />
make a new definition in the<br />
district plan to ensure intensive<br />
farming is defined as a commercial<br />
activity which mainly<br />
occurs indoors.<br />
The new district plan is estimated<br />
to become operative in<br />
March 2022.<br />
Currently intensive farming<br />
is not clearly defined, making<br />
consenting requirements ambiguous.<br />
Several issues have been identified<br />
with intensive farmingrelated<br />
rules in the current<br />
district plan.<br />
Issues are the duplication of<br />
process between district and regional<br />
councils over air quality,<br />
and free-range poultry activities<br />
being permitted by ECan but requiring<br />
a resource consent from<br />
the district council.<br />
Another problem is if an<br />
intensive farm operator wants<br />
to establish a residential dwelling<br />
on their property, they are<br />
required to apply for resource<br />
ANALYSED: The district council is asking for residents’ views<br />
on intensive farming rules as it begins to assemble the new<br />
district plan. <br />
consent if the dwelling is located<br />
within 300m of the intensive<br />
farming operation.<br />
This is even if they are the<br />
owners of the operation.<br />
It comes as <strong>Selwyn</strong> is home<br />
to the highest number of pork<br />
producers in the country,<br />
although not the largest volume<br />
produced.<br />
It has about 19 per cent of the<br />
2019<br />
ON THE DOMAIN LINCOLN 2 MARCH 2019<br />
country’s commercially operated<br />
pig farms, accounting for<br />
approximately 22 per cent of the<br />
domestic production.<br />
This farming activity in the<br />
district makes up a significant<br />
proportion of the returns generated<br />
for the local economy $750<br />
million to $900 million per annum<br />
industry.<br />
The district council is encouraging<br />
residents to take part in<br />
the survey on the draft changes<br />
it recently endorsed for further<br />
development on intensive farming<br />
rules.<br />
Residents will be asked for<br />
their views on ECan being solely<br />
responsible for monitoring air<br />
discharges from an intensive<br />
farm and what rules should be<br />
introduced to permit intensive<br />
farming.<br />
They will also be asked what<br />
the setback between a new<br />
residential development and<br />
an intensive farming activity<br />
should be.<br />
District councillor Pat McEvedy<br />
said the district plan is very<br />
much in its early stages and it is<br />
sorting through what the district<br />
council’s preferred options are as<br />
part of the consultation.<br />
•To have your say or for<br />
more information go to https://<br />
yoursay.selwyn.govt.nz<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: What<br />
do you think are the key<br />
issues with intensive farming<br />
in the district? Email your<br />
views to georgia.oconnor@<br />
starmedia.kiwi<br />
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DRIVING CHARGES<br />
A motorist who hit a parked<br />
vehicle before rolling the van<br />
he was driving, was more than<br />
twice the legal limit on Friday.<br />
Constable Herb Inwood said<br />
the 29-year-old man drifted<br />
to the left before crashing into<br />
the parked vehicle on High St,<br />
Leeston. The man’s recorded<br />
breath alcohol reading was just<br />
over 500mcg/l. The legal limit is<br />
250mcg/l. Constable Inwood said<br />
the damage to both vehicles was<br />
“quite significant,” however, the<br />
man did not sustain any injuries.<br />
The man will appear in the<br />
Christchurch District Court in<br />
early August.<br />
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE FIRE<br />
A house was destroyed by fire<br />
in Springfield’s Dalethorpe Rd<br />
last week. Fire risk management<br />
officer and specialist fire<br />
investigator Wayne Hamilton said<br />
no one was home at the time and<br />
the fire “burnt itself out.” He said<br />
the damage was discovered by<br />
the owners the following day. Mr<br />
Hamilton said the owners rung<br />
Fire and Emergency New Zealand<br />
and it investigated along with<br />
police and insurance. He said the<br />
fire was caused by an electrical<br />
issue in the switchboard.<br />
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