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.