LGOIMA Request Details: LG2032

Under the LGOIMA we therefore request:

1. a copy of the Designation referred to by Hamish Waugh in the Feilding Herald October 14, 2021, including when such designation was approved by Council.

Designation attached including processing officers' report.

2. copies of documents approving the change from a Transfer Station (as per attached map) to what is currently proposed (Energy Plant?). 

The designation refers to a resource recovery centre not a transfer station.

3. We note that MDC is listed on Bioplant Energy's website as a partner.  As a partner of the company applying for Resource Consent for activities on the MDC site at Kawakawa Road please provide a copy of the Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE) relating to the proposed activities on the site titled 'Land designated for transfer station' on the attached map.

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4. Please also provide documentation relating to the creation and operation of the MDC/Bioplant partnership.

The "creation and operation" documentation referred to in the LGOIMA request is not Manawatu District Council documentation.

As you're well aware our Group has a vested interest, via the Environment Court, in relation to activities on the Kawakawa Road/FWTP site.  As potentially affected parties of what is now being proposed it is considered deceitful at best that MDC has avoided any interaction at all with our Group regarding the development of this site.

• The attached designation approval and processing officers' report addresses the Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE) relating to the Notice of Requirement which include:
• Traffic
• Noise
• Landscape
• Natural Hazards
• Cultural
• Positive effects

• The "group" referred to in the LGOIMA request has expressed its "vested interest" in the wastewater discharge consents relating to the operation of the Manawatu Wastewater Treatment Plant. The "group" were engaged with as an affected party during the discharge consent process for the Manawatu Wastewater Treatment Plant. The "group" were not deemed an affected party during the Notice of Requirement and planning designation process for the establishment of the resource recovery site which is the subject of the LGOIMA request.