But such intangible cultural effects could not overwhelm the Resource Management Act, the National Policy Statement on freshwater, the Auckland Unitary Plan, Auckland Council s officials and four men sitting in judgment. An independent planning panel for Auckland Council has approved a 60-hectare landfill for a farm and bush site in the Dome Valley just south of Wellsford to take Auckland city s waste for the next 35 years.
Supplied Law over lore. The tangible over the intangible. A council expert who recommended the dump be approved later accepted at the hearing that there would be intangible adverse cultural effects, and only mana whenua can speak to mana whenua values .
Iwi oppose extension of Tirohia landfill near Paeroa
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Iwi oppose extension of Tirohia landfill near Paeroa
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