Significant applications, hearings and decisions
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What makes a resource consent application significant
Some resource consent applications are for activities that may have wide-ranging effects on the environment and/or many people. For example, constructing a vehicle bridge on a farm may only affect people on the property itself. In contrast, large constructions such as marinas or projects involving a change to lake or river levels for power generation may result in increased effects on the surrounding environment.
These larger-scale consent applications are of interest to the community’s environmental, economic, cultural, recreational and spiritual values. This is why Environment Waikato makes sure that significant applications are publicly notified, so that everyone has the chance to have their say and make a submission.
A hearing committee often decides upon significant consent applications. Once consent decisions are made, only the consent applicants or those who made submissions to the consent can formally object to or appeal them.
This section of our website sometimes has more detailed information about applications that have attracted a lot of public interest.
Significant applications, hearings and decisions
Click on any relevant applicant or application details below to find out how you can view, print or copy its related information in PDF format. Please note that any application listed below has been through the notification process.
The only people who can make a presentation at a hearing are council staff, the consent applicants, those who made submissions for or against the consent application and representatives of those parties.
More information
You can find out more about these or any other resource consent applications lodged with Environment Waikato by calling us on Environment Waikato's Resource Use Freephone 0800 800 402.
Check out our information about the resource consent process and activities requiring a consent .
Find out more about current notified applications.
Find out more about pre-hearing meetings and the hearing process.
Our Annual Plan outlines each year’s consent and monitoring activities. The results are reported in section two (‘Our Environment’) of our "Annual Plan".