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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.
EDS welcomes High Court decision relating to dairy conversions at Simons Pass Station in the Mackenzie Basin
EDS welcomes the High Court decision upholding declarations made by the Environment Court that resource consents for agricultural conversion (including irrigation) at Simons Pass Station are a discretionary activity.
Simons Pass Station was unsuccessful in its appeal that the decision was an error in law.
“Yesterday the High Court confirmed that the consents for Simons Pass Station will need to be assessed as full discretionary activity,” said EDS CEO Gary Taylor.
“That outcome is entirely consistent with the EDS view of the law.
Friday, 11 December 2020, 11:55 am
EDS welcomes High Court decision relating to dairy
conversions at Simons Pass Station in the Mackenzie
Basin
EDS welcomes the High Court decision upholding
declarations made by the Environment Court that resource
consents for agricultural conversion (including irrigation)
at Simons Pass Station are a discretionary activity.
Simons Pass Station was unsuccessful in its appeal that
the decision was an error in law.
“Yesterday the High
Court confirmed that the consents for Simons Pass Station
will need to be assessed as full discretionary activity,”
said EDS CEO Gary Taylor.
“That outcome is entirely
consistent with the EDS view of the law.