Simons Pass News Today

Mytchall Bransgrove/Stuff Government funding of $11.6m was awarded to the Timaru District Councils Theatre Royal upgrade and Heritage precinct project. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, was in Timaru to confirm the Government support for the $23m project which ‘met the criteria of the Government’s ‘shovel-ready’ programme, in that it was ready to proceed and would create jobs. ‘‘The design and construction of the theatre upgrade and new (museum) facility is estimated to directly empl...

LINZ Simons Pass Station will need to apply for a discretionary activity consent to carry out direct drilling and irrigation. A farm owner in the Mackenzie District will no longer fight an Environment Court ruling upheld in a High Court decision which environmental advocates say could mark the end of dairy expansions in the basin. In the High Court decision released last week, Justice Robert Osborne upheld the Environment Court’s ruling that the Mackenzie District Council had full discretion...

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 wil...

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...