Resource consents
What councils have been asked to allow under the Resource Management Act — a subdivision, a dwelling that breaks a height rule, earthworks, a bore — and what they decided. Pick a council to see its own.
Applications lodged per month
2,740 in the last five years of records · Hawke's Bay Regional · latest lodged 30 May 2025
- Land useWithdrawn
To undertake plantation forestry activities including afforestation
- Land useGranted
To drill bore no. 17649 (100 mm diameter) at the location described below and shown on the site map
- Water permitGranted
INTERIM - - to take and use water from well no. 2099 (200 mm diameter) to irrigate 25 hectares of viticulture and 2 hectares of garden and lawn area, to frost protect 2.7 hectares of viticulture, and to use for spray filling, building supply and wash down purposes
- Water permitGranted
INTERIM - to take water from well no. 5759 (300 mm diameter) to frost protect 10 hectares of horticulture crops
- Water permitGranted
Interim - to take and use water from well no. 5759 (300 mm diameter) to irrigate 10 hectares
- Water permitGranted
INTERIM - To take water from a 150 mm well (No. 1993) to irrigate 3.24 hectares of horticulture
- Water permitGranted
to take and use water from well no. 15446 (250 mm diameter) and well no. 3510, adjacent to the Tutaekuri River, to irrigate 18.67 hectares of pip fruit, and to supply 7 houses for domestic purposes.
- Water permitGranted
to take and use water from a trench adjacent to the Waipawa River to irrigate 460 hectares of pasture and for use in a dairy shed.
- Discharge permitGranted
to discharge cleanfill to land within 20 metres of surface water bodies
- Land useGranted
to remove/demolish/extend/alter and erect new structures in the bed of various rivers
- Water permitGranted
to temporarily divert water in various rivers when required;
- Water permitGranted
INTERIM - to take and use water from well no. 862 (150 mm diameter) to irrigate 8 hectares of pip fruit and for spray fill purposes.
- Water permitGranted
To take water from a tributary of Opokororo Stream and a reservoir for use in a dairy shed and for filling the reservoir
- Land useGranted
To clear vegetation in an area within 5 metres of various rivers
- Discharge permitGranted
to discharge contaminants into air arising from the management of that FDE.
- Deemed permitted boundary activityIssued
To undertake maintenance and remediation of culverts in the bed of two unnamed tributaries of the Mohaka River and undertake associated works, including placement of a Reno mattress and diversion of water
- Discharge permitGranted
Retrospective consent to discharge contaminants to land where those contaminants (or any other contaminants emanating as a result of natural processes from those contaminants) may enter water
- Discharge permitGranted
to discharge farm dairy effluent (including associated sludges and solids) from a herd of up to 250 cows and from the operation of a dairy shed onto land, in circumstances which may result in the contaminant (or any other contaminant emanating as a result of natural processes from that contaminant) entering water
- Land useGranted
Retrospective consent to construct permanent structures to stabilise the banks on both sides of the Herehere Stream
- Land useGranted
To install a culvert across the Waipuna Stream for forestry harvesting activities
- Land useGranted
To drill bore 17647 (150 mm diameter) for irrigation purposes
- Land useWithdrawn
To replace a culvert in an unnamed tributary of the Tūtaekurī River and to place new structures in the Tūtaekurī River
- Water permitWithdrawn
to temporarily divert the Tūtaekurī River during slip repair work
- Discharge permitWithdrawn
To discharge contaminated soil (cleanfill) to land within 20 meters of the Tūtaekurī River and its unnamed tributary
- Land useWithdrawn
To clear vegetation in an area within 5 metres of the Tūtaekurī River and its unnamed tributary
- Land useWithdrawn
To replace a culvert in an unnamed tributary of the Tūtaekurī River that does not comply with regulation 70 of the NES.
- Water permitGranted
to take and use water from the Poporangi Stream to fill a water storage reservoir for the subsequent irrigation of 540 hectares of pasture, and to take water from the Poporangi Stream to directly irrigate 216 ha of that pasture and crops
- Land useGranted
To drill bore 17646 (150 mm diameter) for irrigation of crops
- Water permitWithdrawn
INTERIM - To take and use water from well no. 9067 (100 mm diameter) to irrigate 5 hectares of process crops.
- Water permitGranted
to take and use water from well no. 1450, no. 1489, no. 15284 (100 mm diameter), and no. 15282 and no. 15283 (75 mm diameter, coupled) to irrigate part of 90 hectares of process crops
- Water permitGranted
*LAPSE DATE EXTN - to take and use water from well no. 2930 (200 mm diameter) to irrigate part of 28 hectares of orchard and for spray fill and building supply purposes
- Discharge permitGranted
To discharge secondary treated domestic effluent from three dwellings (papakainga) into the ground in circumstances where contaminants (or any other contaminants emanating as a result of natural processes from those contaminants) may enter water.
- Discharge permitGranted
To discharge tertiary treated effluent from a treatment plant servicing ten guest houses, a restaurant, a kitchen, an administration block, visitor facilities and a winery into an instream irrigation reservoir and subsequently onto land.
- Discharge permitWithdrawn
to discharge secondary treated domestic effluent from a seasonal workers accommodation facility (for up to 50 people) into the ground in circumstances where contaminants (or any other contaminants emanating as a result of natural processes from those contaminants) may enter water.
- Land useGranted
To carry out gravel extraction works in the bed of the Kikiwhero Stream and any associated discharge of sediment to water
- Discharge permitGranted
to discharge dairy effluent from a herd of up to 600 cows and from the operation of a dairy shed onto land, in circumstances which may result in the contaminant (or any other contaminant as a result of natural processes from that contaminant) entering water
- Water permitWithdrawn
To take water from an unnamed tributary of Mangaorapa Stream to fill a storage reservoir for subsequent use as stock drinking water and for irrigation of up to 100 hectares of forage crops
- Discharge permitGranted
To discharge secondary treated domestic effluent from a packhouse into the ground in circumstances where contaminants (or any other contaminants emanating as a result of natural processes from those contaminants) may enter water.
- Water permitGranted
to take water from the Tutaekuri-Waimate stream and from well no. 15146 (75 mm diameter) to irrigate 15 hectares of process crops within the area shaded on the site map below.
- Discharge permitGranted
to discharge contaminants into the air including, products from the combustion of diesel; dust and steam from the plant stack; dust from the aggregate bins and yard area; and bitumen odour from premises used for the manufacturing of asphalt and including greenhouse gases from an industrial heat device.
- Discharge permitGranted
To divert and discharge stormwater from tunnel structures and a pump shed to land
- Discharge permitGranted
To divert and discharge drainage water (dewatering) to land that may enter water during excavations associated with wastewater infrastructure upgrades.
- Discharge permitGranted
To discharge treated winery wastewater into the ground in circumstances where contaminants (or any other contaminants emanating as a result of natural processes from those contaminants) may enter water.
- Discharge permitGranted
To discharge contaminants to land and water from operating landfill Area A
- Land useGranted
To install, use, maintain and remove two slash traps in the bed of two tributaries of the Mohaka River.
- Land useGranted
To clear vegetation within 5 metres of an unnamed tributary of Mākara Stream
- Discharge permitGranted
Retrospective consent to discharge cleanfill to land within 20 metres of an unnamed tributary of Mangamaire Stream that may be restricted by Section 15 of the RMA.
- Discharge permitGranted
To discharge cleanfill to land within 20 metres of an unnamed tributary of Mākara Stream that may be restricted by Section 15 of the RMA
- Discharge permitGranted
To discharge secondary treated domestic effluent from a two-bedroom dwelling into the ground in circumstances where contaminants (or any other contaminants emanating as a result of natural processes from those contaminants) may enter water.
- Land useGranted
Construction and use of a box culvert that does not pass a 5% AEP event, Associated diversion of water within a perennial stream or river and Disturbance of the bed or vegetation of a perennial river.
Dots are this page's applications, placed on the land their legal description names. Hollow dots are approximate: the land has since been subdivided. 37 on this page could not be placed.