Summary of Submissions Report - Environmental Protection Authority

3. Limitations of this report
September 2012
MacKays to Peka Peka Expressway Proposal Summary of Submissions report
Identification of trends and concerns within the report are based on information provided by
submitters in their written submissions lodged during the submission period.
Information is accurate at time of receipt of submission and takes into account changes requested
by parties following close of submissions up to 30 August 2012.
For the purpose of section 5.2 of this report, if a submitter has indicated a position both ‘in full’ and
‘in part’, ‘in full’ has been recorded as their overriding position.
The categorisation of information in section 5.5 of this report were based on the submitter name on
the submission form and does not reflect if an individual submission refers to businesses or other
types of groups in their submission.
It is not unusual for submissions received on notified proposals of this nature to cover a broad
range of issues and offer differing levels of detail. Whilst each submission can be unique, the
summary of the submissions necessarily involves a degree of generalisation. Summaries are
therefore not a replication of the original submission. The original submission should be referred to
at all times for the full content of the submission. Full copies of all of the submissions are available
as PDF (Portable Document Format) files on the EPA website.
The Summary of Submissions table in Appendix Four needs to be regarded with caution. The
analysis is based solely on the content of the submission form and the stated position of the
submitter. In some cases it is not immediately evident what decision a submitter seeks from the
Board of Inquiry with respect to the information provided in their submission. If the submitter has
strongly inferred through the reasons for the submission and/or their stated submitter position, the
EPA has interpreted this inference and stated (inferred) in Appendix Four.
4. Introduction
4.1 Background
On 20 April 2012, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) received an application from the
NZTA for a Notice of Requirement and 29 Resource Consents ("the matters") for the MacKays to Peka
Peka Expressway Proposal (the proposal).
The proposal involves the construction, operation, and maintenance of an approximately 16 km
section of State highway, formed to an expressway standard, from 2 kms north of MacKays Crossing
to Te Kowhai Road, Peka Peka in the Kāpiti Coast District.
The proposal will provide for an Expressway with two lanes of traffic in each direction, connections
with local roads at four interchanges, new local roads and access roads to maintain local connectivity,
and an additional bridge crossing over the Waikanae River.
The EPA recommended to the Minister for the Environment to direct the matters to a board of inquiry
for decision. The Minister has accepted the EPA’s recommendation and directed the matters to be
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