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Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has received the following applications for resource consents under the Resource Management Act 1991. The applications are publicly notified in accordance with section 95A of the Resource Management Act 1991.
Applicant: Hawke's Bay Regional Council (Regional Assets Section)
Details of proposal: The applications relate to the dredging on the bed of the lower Clive River (including part of the river defined as Coastal Marine Area).
The dredged area will be approximately 1,500m long by 60m wide, starting from a point approximately 200m upstream of the Clive SH2 Bridge and extending to approximately 1,200m downstream of the bridge. The dredged material will be pumped from a cutter-suction dredge via a floating pipeline to a discharge point on or near the southern side of the river mouth. The dredging material will be discharged onto the beach at this point, above high tide level, and will flow from there into the sea.
This application has been withdrawn at the applicant’s request. Information about the applicant’s reasons for this is available here .
The hearing for this application has been postponed and is yet to be re-scheduled. Further information will be sent to the parties and will be provided here once a hearing has been arranged.
Authorisation Number |
Activity Type |
Description of activity |
AUTH-126690-01 |
Land Use – Excavation |
To carry out dredging works in the bed of the Clive River, including within the Coastal Margin |
AUTH-126691-01 |
Water Take – Surface Water |
To take and use surface water from the Clive River (including from within the Coastal Margin) during the dredging process; and to undertake activities which contravene Part 3 (reg. 54) of the NES-F, being the taking of surface water within, or within 100 m setback from a natural wetland |
AUTH-126688-01 |
Discharge to Land |
To discharge dredging material from the Lower Clive River to land that may enter water, including within the Coastal Margin. |
AUTH-127746-01 |
Land use – Coastal Hazard Zone 1 |
To deposit dredged sediment in the Coastal Hazard 1 (CHZ1) Zone. |
AUTH-127752-01 |
Land Use – Excavate |
To disturb the foreshore and seabed by dredging in the Coastal Margin |
AUTH-126689-01 |
Coastal permit - Disturb (CMA) |
To disturb the foreshore and seabed within the Coastal Marine Area by dredging the bed of the Clive River. |
AUTH-127748-01 |
Coastal permit - deposit (CMA) |
To deposit more than 50,000m3 of dredged material on the foreshore and seabed within the CMA. |
AUTH-127749-01 |
Coastal permit - Water Take |
To take surface water from the CMA within SCA11 (Significant Conservation Area 11 – ‘Waitangi Estuary’) during the dredging process. |
AUTH-127748-01 |
Coastal permit – structure (CMA) |
To place a structure (the cutter-suction dredge discharge pipeline) in the CMA and the associated occupation of space. |
Application Number: APP-126155
Location: The Clive River, from approximately 200 m upstream of the SH2 Bridge to 1,300 metres downstream of the bridge
(as depicted in Figure 1).
Figure 1. Dredging extent and discharge location
Full Details of the Application may be viewed on this page, or at our offices (HBRC offices, 159 Dalton Street, Napier)
If you have any queries about the application or how to lodge a submission, please contact:
Julia Byrne - Consents Planner – Policy & Regulation Group
Phone: +64 6 835 9200
Cell: 027 354 1376
Email: julia.byrne@hbrc.govt.nz
Submissions are now closed.
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