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consents : Unison Networks Ltd (Te Waka Range)
The Hastings District Council has received an application for a resource consent from Unison Networks Limited to erect, operate and maintain a windfarm consisting of up to 37 turbines for the generation of electricity in the vicinity of the Te Waka Range to the west of Te Pohue and State Highway Five, being legally described as:
- SECT 24 BLK XVI Pohue Survey District;
- SECT 23 BLK XVI Pohue Survey District;
- SECT 11 BLK XVI Pohue Survey District;
- SECT 10 BLK XVI Pohue Survey District;
- Pt SECT 9 BLK XVI Pohue Survey District;
- Pt Lot 1 Deed 487;
- Pt Rural Section 1 Pohue Road;
- Rural Section 2 Pohue Bush;
- Pt Lot 1 DP 5261, Pt Lot 2 DP 8530, Lot 1 DP 12896;
- SECT 7 BLK XVI Pohue Survey District;
- Pt SECT BLK XVI Pohue Survey District;
- SECT 13 BLK XVI Pohue Survey District;
- Unformed legal road (Richmond Road – otherwise known as Rukumoana Road):
The application also includes the following:
- Installation of underground and overhead lines to connect the windfarm to the transmission system;
- Erection, operation and maintenance of up to four meteorological masts;
- The operation of a temporary concrete batching plant;
- Erection of ancillary structures and buildings including:
- collector points for cabling;
- a marshalling facility for cabling;
- an operations and maintenance building - Indigenous vegetation modification;
- Land disturbance including:
- access formation to turbine sites;
- establishing flat platforms at each turbine site;
- placement of fill;
- establishing platforms for temporary laydown areas, operation and maintenance buildings, and a marshalling facility: - Replacement of all equipment and facilities as required.
A more detailed description of the above activities and an assessment of their environmental effects are included in the Assessment of Environmental Effects contained within the application.
The application can be viewed below, or in hard copy form at:
- Resource Management, 2nd Floor, Hastings District Council, Lyndon Road, Hastings
- Hastings, Flaxmere, Havelock North and Napier City (Central) Libraries
- Te Haroto Store (The Summit)
- Te Pohue Hotel
(Note: Due to their size, background documents for this application are available on CD ROM from Richard Watkins at the Hastings District Council).
- Application (789 KB)
Please contact Richard Watkins on 878 0500 if you have any queries about the application.
Submissions
Submissions closed on 28 February 2006.
Richard Watkins
SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER (CONSENTS)
28 January 2006
