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Simons Pass Station will need to apply for a discretionary activity consent to carry out direct drilling and irrigation.
A farm owner in the Mackenzie District will no longer fight an Environment Court ruling upheld in a High Court decision which environmental advocates say could mark the end of dairy expansions in the basin.
In the High Court decision released last week, Justice Robert Osborne upheld the Environment Court’s ruling that the Mackenzie District Council had full discretion to reject or grant a consent application filed by the owner of Simons Pass Station to undertake irrigation and direct drilling for agricultural conversion.