Welcome to Hawke's Bay Regional Council website pages on resource consents.
The resource consent process ensures that people can get fair access to the resources - water, air, land - they need. It also ensures that anyone planning new developments has thought about the impact on the environment and takes precautions to ensure that resources are not damaged or overused.
In this section you can find information about applying for a consent, on consultation and approvals and side agreements, and when hearings are required. Timelines for processing applications are provided as a guide, and there is information about what happens once a resource consent is obtained, monitoring and other requirements.
Some of the most commonly used consent application forms can be downloaded.
For submitters, there are guidelines on making submissions on resource consents and a submission form.
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A discharge to water requiring resource consent
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Activities impact on the land, water, air or coastal environment are managed by rules set out in Regional Plans developed by the Hawke's Bay Regional Council in line with the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA). These determine whether specific activities are permitted, discretionary, restricted discretionary or controlled. Consents are issued, with conditons, for the last three categories.
Under the RMA you need a resource consent if you want to carry out various activities which may have an effect on the environment, such as:
- discharging waste into water, into air or onto land;
- taking, damming or diverting water;
- causing a disturbance to or building a structure on the bed of a river, a lake or sea, ie. building a wharf or bridge;
- drilling groundwater bores or wells.
The requirements for resource consents are set out in the Regional Resource Management Plan, the Regional Coastal Plan.
Please contact us should you require any further information.