Hearings

The Environment Court will be holding a hearing into the provisions of Plan Change 8 and matters raised in submissions and further submissions. Further information about the court's practice and procedures can be found on the General Information page.

On this page you can find:

Hearing Schedule - a timetable giving the date, time and location parties and their witnesses are to attend at a hearing;
Getting to the Hearing - information about how to get to the hearing venue;
Event Notices - general notices for all court events including mediation, expert conferencing and hearings;
Evidence;
Joint Witness Statements;
Legal Submissions / Records of Amendments Sought;
Common Bundle;
Exhibits - materials produced during hearings;
Hearing Transcripts - typed transcript of the hearing; and
Audio Recordings of Hearings.

Hearing Schedule

File name format: [Date of Schedule] - [Name of Timetable]

The draft hearing schedule is below. Please note this is subject to change.

Hearing Schedule as at 19 October 2021 [PDF, 91 KB]

If you have questions or queries about the hearing schedule, please contact Glen Cooper or Rebecca Jackson on:

PlanChange@orc.govt.nz; or
027 213 1652.

Getting to the Hearing

The Hearing for PC8 will be held in the Hutton Theatre of the Otago Museum. Information about finding the Hutton Theatre is provided below:

Getting to the Hearing - The Hutton Theatre [PDF, 120 KB]

Event Notices

Notices for all court events including mediation, expert conferencing and hearings can be found on the Notice of Court Events page.

Evidence:

File name format: [Date Filed] - [Party Name] - Evidence - [Evidence Type] - [Witness Name] - [Discipline] - [Date of Evidence]

Until evidence is produced in court by witness, the statement is not regarded as ‘evidence’. Note: There may also be minor changes (e.g. grammar) between the time of uploading onto the court’s website and the witness being sworn in (or affirmed) at the hearing.

Urban Provisions

Plan Architecture

ORC - Felicity Boyd - Statement of Evidence - 17 December 2021 [PDF, 3.4 MB]

Primary Sector Provisions (Rural)

Joint Witness Statements

File name format: [Date Filed] - JWS - [Expert Type] - [Topic] - [Date of JWS]

1. JWS 1 - Primary Sector Part B - Animal Waste Storage 8-9 June 2021 [PDF, 405 KB]

Legal Submissions / Records of Amendments Sought

File name format: [Date] - [Party Name] - [Topic] - [Opening / Closing / Further]

2021-11-17 ORC - Closing Legal Submissions - PC8 - primary sector hearing [PDF, 153 KB]

2021-11-03 ORC - Legal submissions - PC8 - primary sector hearing [PDF, 288 KB]

2021-11-03 D-G of Conservation - Legal submissions - PC8 - primary sector hearing [PDF, 163 KB]

2021-11-03 Fish & Game - Legal submissions - PC8 - primary sector hearing [PDF, 149 KB]

2021-02-22 Special Advisor - Ian Gordon - Willowridge Developments Ltd s 281 application [PDF, 150 KB]

Common Bundle

2021-11-05 ORC - RPW Chapters - tracked version - updated [PDF, 8.3 MB]

2021-11-03 ORC - RPW Chapters - clean version [PDF, 8.2 MB]

2021-10-27 ORC - PC8 - Common Bundle - Volume 1 [PDF, 16 MB]

2021-10-27 ORC - PC8 - Common Bundle - Volume 2 [PDF, 13 MB]

2021-10-27 ORC - PC8 - Common Bundle - Volume 3(a) [PDF, 30 MB]

2021-10-27 ORC - PC8 - Common Bundle - Volume 3(b) [PDF, 13 MB]

Exhibits

File name format: [Date] - [Exhibit No] - [Produced by] - [description]

No exhibits have been produced yet.

Hearing Transcripts

File name format: [Date of Transcript] - Transcript - Hearing - [Topic] - [Date of Hearing]

Please note: To provide the transcript as fast as we can, it has not been extensively checked and may contain errors and omissions. If you notice a significant error or omission please advise us via ORC@justice.govt.nz, noting the date and time the error or omission occured, as soon as possible.

Transcript - PC8 - Primary Sector Provisions - 8-9 November 2021 [PDF, 853 KB]

The transcript will be updated with each day's proceedings as they become available.

Audio Recordings of Hearings

File name format: Audio - Hearing - [Topic] - [Date of Hearing]

Audio recordings will not be available for the PC8 hearing.

This page was last updated: 20th December 2021