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Notice of Requirement - Matahorua Gorge SH2
Notification of Notice of Requirement for a designation under Section 168 of the Resource Management Act 1991
The Hastings District Council has received notice of a requirement for an alteration to a designation from Transit New Zealand.
The requirement is for an alteration to the existing designation of State Highway 2, Matahorua Gorge, between Napier and Wairoa. An additional 28.14 hectares of land is to be included within the designation in order to realign approximately 3 kilometres of the highway.
The site to which the requirement applies is located at Matahorua Gorge, between the towns of Kahika and Putorino.
The realignment commences at the property known as 4355 State Highway 2 and rejoins the existing highway in the vicinity of 4884 State Highway 2. The full extent of the proposed designation is shown on the plans within the Notice of Requirement documentation.
The Notice of Requirement and accompanying information may be inspected below, or in hard copy form at:
- Resource Management, 2nd floor, Hastings District Council, 207 Lyndon Road East, Hastings
- Hastings, Flaxmere and Havelock North libraries
Documents
- Application (PDF 9.6MB)
- Alignment and Earthworks (PDF 3.4MB)
Submissions
Any person may make a submission on the Notice of Requirement. You may do so by sending a written submission to the Hastings District Council at Private Bag 9002, Hastings. The submission must be in form 21.
- Submission form (Form 21) (PDF 49kB)
Paper copies of this form are available from the Hastings District Council, 207 Lyndon Road East
Submissions close at 4.30pm, 1st of April, 2008.
You must serve a copy of your submission on Transit New Zealand, whose address for service is:
Transit New Zealand
C/- Beca
PO Box 448 Hamilton
Attn: Richard Douch
as soon as reasonably practicable after serving your submission on Hastings District Council.
More information
Please contact Susan Jones (Ph: 878 0500) if you have any questions about the Notice of Requirement.






