The Star: September 26, 2019

The Star Thursday September 26 2019
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Quarry won’t need new consent
• By Georgia O’Connor-
Harding
FULTON HOGAN will
not have to apply for a new
resource consent to quarry near
Templeton – in spite of the raft of
changes made to its application.
The three-person hearings
panel, chaired by Rob van
Voorhuysen, has decided the
changes made to the company’s
original
application do not
require it to get a
new consent.
Environment
Canterbury
and the district
Simon
council called
for public
submissions
Moore
on whether the application
should be a new process due
to the changes, but these were
required to be authored by legal
counsel.
The councils called for
submissions after Fulton
Hogan made the changes to
its application to open a 170ha
quarry between Dawsons,
Curraghs, Jones and Maddisons
Rd. The changes included:
•Decreasing the total active
open area of the quarry from
40ha to a maximum of 26ha.
•Originally the application
sought to provide for up to 1500
DECISION: The changes made to Fulton Hogan’s
application to quarry in Templeton will not require it to
apply for a new resource consent. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER
heavy vehicle movements per
day with an average of 1050
movements per day. But Fulton
Hogan now wishes to amend the
proposal to a daily limit of 800
heavy vehicles.
•Fulton Hogan initially
intended to develop a new
dedicated heavy vehicle access
from Jones Rd and use the
existing access off the road as
a dedicated light vehicle access
to the site. Instead it wants
to provide a “shared” heavy
and light vehicle access point,
meaning there will only be one
access point.
Upset residents wanted to
have a say on the changes.
But only the submitters who
chose to speak at the upcoming
hearing in November will get
the opportunity to have a second
say on Fulton Hogan’s amended
application.
Quarry opponent Simon
Moore was not “too worried
about” the hearings panel’s
decision to not require a new
consent from Fulton Hogan.
“We have got the opportunity
to be notified and have all the
submissions which we may not
get if they redo it,” he said.
His biggest concern is
not giving submitters the
opportunity to amend their
written submissions to reflect
the changes Fulton Hogan has
made.
Temple’s battle may be over
• By Georgia O’Connor-
Harding
A BUDDHIST temple’s fight to
halt the planned Fulton Hogan
quarry may be stopped in its
tracks.
About 135 submissions have
been made by the temple’s
Samadhi Buddhist Trust and
its associated members over the
proposed quarry. But because
the temple has no resource
consent, the Selwyn District
Council says it has received legal
advice that any possible adverse
effects on the temple from the
quarry are to be disregarded.
The planned site for the
quarry is directly opposite the
temple on Maddisons Rd.
The district council has only
recently learned the temple
does not have resource consent
for the spiritual and associated
activities it undertakes on the
site. As a result, the temple
only applied for its resource
A lawyer for Fulton Hogan has
since said the company would
not be opposed to submitters
who did not want to initially be
heard at the hearing to now be
heard.
The only submission made on
treating the resource consent
CONSENT NEEDED: The
Samadhi Buddhist Trust
temple on Maddisons Rd
near Templeton. ​
consent on September 5, and it is
currently being processed by the
district council.
The temple is on land deemed
“inner rural zone” under the
Selwyn District Plan. The
district council’s advice to
disregard the impact the quarry
may have on the temple was
in the independently prepared
Section 42A reports.
as a new process was from legal
counsel on behalf of Fulton
Hogan.
It said: “The proposed change
in sequencing and staging of the
application does not change the
scale or intensity of the proposed
activity.”
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