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The Star Thursday September 26 2019 16 NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz 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.” “YOU CAN’T BEAT KIWI CREATIVE TALENT.” - Craig Hutchison, Director and Producer CAS’n’OVA PRODUCTIONS BOOK ONLINE NOW www.casnova.co.nz
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