Substantive application

Application documents

Personal details have been redacted from the application documents

• Buller Plateaux Continuation cover letter (PDF, 515 KB)
• Buller Plateaux Continuation executive summary (PDF, 1 MB)
• List of acronyms, abbreviations and terms (PDF, 208 KB)

Part A – Substantive application

• Cover page and list of lodged documents (PDF, 296 KB)
• Table of Contents (PDF, 173 KB)
• Chapter 01 - Project wide overview (PDF, 1 MB)
• Chapter 02 - Mining overview (PDF, 7 MB)
• Chapter 03 - Existing environment (PDF, 16 MB)
• Chapter 04 - Project description (PDF, 10 MB)
• Chapter 05 - Application approach and structure (PDF, 430 KB)
• Chapter 06 - Assessment of environmental effects (PDF, 1 MB)
• Chapter 07 - Management and monitoring of effects (PDF, 3 MB)
• Chapter 08 - RMA approvals (PDF, 16 MB)
• Chapter 08A - Permitted activity assessment (PDF, 6 MB)
• Chapter 08B - Existing approvals (PDF, 7 MB)
• Chapter 08C - Cypress consent variation (PDF, 20 MB)
• Chapter 09 - RMA statutory assessment (PDF, 745 KB)
• Chapter 09A - Relevant statutory provisions (PDF, 889 KB)
• Chapter 10 - Conservation Act and Reserves Act (PDF, 23 MB)
• Chapter 10A - Denniston North and Coalbrookdale pest exclusion concession (PDF, 818 KB)
• Chapter 10B - Denniston fly rock concession (PDF, 2 MB)
• Chapter 10C - Denniston water monitoring concession (PDF, 1 MB)
• Chapter 10D - Residual effects package concession (PDF, 784 KB)
• Chapter 10E - Stockton fence concession (PDF, 751 KB)
• Chapter 10F - Stockton fly rock concession (PDF, 3 MB)
• Chapter 10G - Stockton infrastructure concession (PDF, 15 MB)
• Chapter 10H - Stockton water and dust monitoring concession (PDF, 652 KB)

• Chapter 11 - Wildlife Act approvals (PDF, 1 MB)
• Chapter 11A - Wildlife approval specific conditionsons (PDF, 172 KB)
• Chapter 12 - Heritage approvals (PDF, 1 MB)
• Chapter 12A - Heritage approval specific conditions (PDF, 6 MB)
• Chapter 12B - Person to carry out activity (PDF, 59 KB)
• Chapter 13 - Freshwater Fisheries Act approvals (PDF, 4 MB)
• Chapter 13A - Complex Freshwater Fisheries approvals conditions (PDF, 2 MB)
• Chapter 13B - Complex Freshwater Fisheries dispensation (PDF, 5 MB)
• Chapter 14 - Crown Minerals Act Approvals - Mining permits (PDF, 11 MB)
• Chapter 15 - Crown Minerals Act Approvals - Access arrangements (PDF, 35 MB)
• Chapter 15A - Relevant mining permits (PDF, 8 MB)
• Chapter 15B1 - Draft access arrangement - ESE Sullivan and Whareatea West (PDF, 1 MB)
• Chapter 15B2 - Draft access arrangement - ESE Replacement access arrangement for MP 51 279 (PDF, 1 MB)
• Chapter 15B3 - Draft access arrangement MFS MPA 61157 (PDF, 1 MB)
• Chapter 15B4 - Draft access arrangement UWHR (PDF, 1 MB)
• Chapter 15B5 - Draft access arrangement STK MP 41810 (PDF, 1 MB)
• Chapter 15B6 - Draft access arrangement STK MP37150R CML and ACML Replacement (PDF, 2 MB)
• Chapter 15B7 - Access arrangement Mount Frederick South MP LINZ (PDF, 3 MB)
• Chapter 15B8 - Access arrangement Stockton MP LINZ (PDF, 3 MB)

Part B – Technical reports

• Cover page and list of lodged documents (PDF, 185 KB)
• EcoLogical Solutions - Terrestrial ecology part 1 (PDF, 40 MB)
• EcoLogical Solutions - Terrestrial ecology part 2 (PDF, 11 MB)
• Lloyd's Ecological - Assessment on snails (PDF, 3 MB)
• Lloyd's Ecological - Modelling trends snails (PDF, 2 MB)
• Alliance Ecology - Residual effects management (PDF, 11 MB)
• Alliance Ecology - Pest mammal survey (PDF, 30 MB)
• Pestproof fences (PDF, 256 KB)
• Pest exclusion fencing report (PDF, 16 MB)
• Earth Sciences - Aquatic ecology (PDF, 5 MB)
• RMA Science - Water quality guidelines part 1 (PDF, 24 MB)
• RMA Science - Water quality guidelines part 2 (PDF, 11 MB)
• Earth Sciences - Koura movement ecology (PDF, 435 KB)
• BRL - Koura passage culvert characterisation (PDF, 4 MB)
• AMD - overview report part 1 (PDF, 44 MB)
• AMD - overview report part 2 (PDF, 48 MB)
• AMD - overview report part 3 (PDF, 32 MB)
• AMD - overview report part 4 (PDF, 35 MB)
• AMD - overview report part 5 (PDF, 10 MB)
• AMD - overview report part 6 (PDF, 33 MB)
• AMD - overview report part 7 (PDF, 35 MB)
• AMD - overview report part 8 (PDF, 48 MB)
• MWM - Sediment overview report (PDF, 37 MB)
• PFL - Active water treatment testing summary (PDF, 40 MB)
• PFL - Active water treatment plant basis of design (PDF, 2 MB)
• MWM - Hydrological assessment (PDF, 11 MB)
• Courtenay Environmental - Wastewater treatment (PDF, 7 MB)
• Courtenay Env - On-site wastewater treatment - Stockton (PDF, 4 MB)
• BRL - NZ West Coast coal and mining operations (PDF, 6 MB)

• RMM - Landscape assessment part 1 (PDF, 2 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 2 (PDF, 37 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 3 (PDF, 42 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 4 (PDF, 23 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 5 (PDF, 19 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 6 (PDF, 34 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 7 (PDF, 47 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 8 (PDF, 47 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 9 (PDF, 45 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 10 (PDF, 38 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 11 (PDF, 44 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 12 (PDF, 43 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 13 (PDF, 41 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 14 (PDF, 40 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 15 (PDF, 42 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 16 (PDF, 42 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 17 (PDF, 40 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 18 (PDF, 42 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 19 (PDF, 47 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 20 (PDF, 42 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 21 (PDF, 45 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 22 (PDF, 44 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 23 (PDF, 45 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 24 (PDF, 12 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 25 (PDF, 44 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 26 (PDF, 44 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 27 (PDF, 43 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 28 (PDF, 41 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 29 (PDF, 39 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 30 (PDF, 35 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 31 (PDF, 44 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 32 (PDF, 40 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 33 (PDF, 21 MB)
• RMM - Landscape assessment part 34 (PDF, 874 KB)

• Rob Greenaway - Recreation and tourism assessment (PDF, 19 MB)
• Clough - Heritage assessment part 1 (PDF, 8 MB)
• Clough - Heritage assessment part 2 (PDF, 8 MB)
• Clough - Heritage assessment part 3 (PDF, 4 MB)
• Clough - Heritage assessment part 4 (PDF, 9 MB)
• Clough - Heritage assessment part 5 (PDF, 2 MB)
• Clough - Heritage assessment part 6 (PDF, 23 MB)
• Stantec - Denniston traffic assessment (PDF, 4 MB)
• Stantec - Stockton traffic assessment (PDF, 2 MB)
• Stantec - SH67 Kerrs Road Granity LCSIA (PDF, 11 MB)
• Stantec - SH67 Granity Ngakawau LCSIA (PDF, 13 MB)
• Stantec - Millerton Road Ngakawau LCSIA (PDF, 8 MB)
• Tonkin and Taylor - Air quality technical assessment (PDF, 8 MB)
• Tonkin and Taylor - Hazardous substances assessment (PDF, 3 MB)
• Tonkin and Taylor - Outdoor tyre storage (PDF, 2 MB)
• Leading Design - Existing infrastructure lighting effects (PDF, 11 MB)
• Leading Design - Proposed infrastructure lighting effects (PDF, 3 MB)
• Marshall Day - Assessment of noise effects (PDF, 4 MB)
• AIGIS - Economic impact assessment (PDF, 1 MB)
• AIGIS - Social impact assessment (PDF, 3 MB)
• Ngati Waewae - Cultural impact assessment (PDF, 359 KB)
• PDP - Mount Frederick South geotechnical assessment part 1 (PDF, 8 MB)
• PDP - Mount Frederick South geotechnical assessment part 2 (PDF, 44 MB)
• PDP - Mount Frederick South geotechnical assessment part 3 (PDF, 11 MB)
• BRL - Pre-Feasibility study - Escarpment extn geotechnical assessment (PDF, 8 MB)
• BRL - Stockton geotechnical executive assessment (PDF, 332 KB)
• BRL - Upper Waimangaroa haul road (PDF, 40 MB)

• PDP - Geotechnical assessment A - Drive borrow pit (PDF, 24 MB)
• BRL - Haul road void assessment (PDF, 1 MB)
• BRL - Sustainability, energy use and greenhouse gas (PDF, 485 KB)
• PDP - Greenhouse gas assessment (PDF, 12 MB)
• Instream - Stockton aquatic ecology (PDF, 43 MB)
• BRL - History of AMD management and future (PDF, 3 MB)
• BRL - Stockton 80 year water quality forecast (PDF, 7 MB)
• BRL - Millerton water and AMD management (PDF, 17 MB)
• BRL - Stockton operational AMD sludge management (PDF, 19 MB)
• Lane Associates - Bond process description (PDF, 135 KB)
• Expert code of conduct table (PDF, 10 MB)
• GHD - Stockton water management (PDF, 19 MB)
• GHD - Stockton hydrogeology (PDF, 17 MB)

Part C – Peer reviews

• Cover page and list of lodged documents (PDF, 289 KB)
• Roger MacGibbon - Terrestrial ecology (PDF, 2 MB)
• Dr Bruce Burns - Vegetation (PDF, 635 KB)
• Dr Robyn Simcock - Rehabilitation (PDF, 4 MB)
• Dr Darryl MacKenzie - Snails (PDF, 174 KB)
• Prof Emeritus Jon Harding - Aquatic ecology (PDF, 199 KB)
• Andrew Rumsby - Water quality guidelines (PDF, 5 MB)
• Dr James Pope - AMD and sediment (PDF, 1 MB)
• Dr Dora Avanidou - MFD and ESE hydrogeology (PDF, 288 KB)
• Craig Vincent - Stockon hydrogeology (PDF, 231 KB)
• Tim Mulliner - Hydrology (PDF, 354 KB)
• Shannon Bray - Landscape and visual effects (PDF, 497 KB)
• Dr Neville Ritchie - Heritage and archaeology (PDF, 1 MB)
• Greg Akehurst - Economics (PDF, 178 KB)
• Julie Boucher - Social impact assessment (PDF, 417 KB)
• Andrew Smith - Geotechnical (PDF, 98 KB)
• Campbell Stewart - Erosion and sediment control (PDF, 235 KB)

Part D – Project maps and figures

• Cover page and list of lodged documents (PDF, 291 KB)
• Disturbance areas and land use consent boundary (PDF, 914 KB)
• Disturbance areas and land use consent boundary Stockton (PDF, 904 KB)
• Disturbance areas and land use consent boundary ESE (PDF, 903 KB)
• Disturbance areas and land use consent boundary MFS (PDF, 896 KB)
• Disturbance areas and land use consent boundary UWHR (PDF, 838 KB)
• Mt Rochfort ESE final landforms (PDF, 1 MB)
• MFS final landforms (PDF, 1 MB)
• Stockton final landforms (PDF, 7 MB)
• Landowners (PDF, 796 KB)
• Landowners and disturbance ESE (PDF, 719 KB)
• Landowners and disturbance MFS (PDF, 723 KB)
• Landowners and disturbance at UWHR (PDF, 795 KB)
• Landowners and disturbance Stockton (PDF, 808 KB)
• Stockton water infrastructure (PDF, 6 MB)
• Historic workings across project area (PDF, 2 MB)
• Wildlife Act Authority (PDF, 1 MB)
• Pest exclusion fences at Stockton (PDF, 3 MB)
• Pest exclusion fences at Denniston (PDF, 3 MB)
• Access arrangements being sought (PDF, 2 MB)
• Residual effects management areas (PDF, 1 MB)
• Water monitoring sites ESE and MFS (PDF, 1 MB)
• Water monitoring sites at Stockton (PDF, 2 MB)

Part E – Schedule of project conditions

• Master condition set - Contents (PDF, 89 KB)
• Cover page and list of lodged documents (PDF, 288 KB)
• General conditions (PDF, 3 MB)
• General conditions part 2 (PDF, 1 MB)
• Amenity and landscape conditions (PDF, 5 MB)
• Ecological conditions (PDF, 9 MB)
• Other regional conditions (PDF, 3 MB)
• Water management conditions (PDF, 6 MB)
• Water management conditions part 2 (PDF, 3 MB)
• Rehabilitation and closure conditions (PDF, 6 MB)
• BPCP conditions attachments and schedules (PDF, 7 MB)

Part F – Consultation and engagement 

• Cover page and list of lodged documents (PDF, 288 KB)
• Stakeholder and community engagement report (PDF, 16 MB)
• Buller District Council Heads of agreement (PDF, 13 MB)
• Affected party agreement (PDF, 4 MB)
• NZFWDA managed access protocol (PDF, 605 KB)
• Museum letters (PDF, 2 MB)
• Formal notification letters (PDF, 3 MB)
• Responses to letters (PDF, 2 MB)
• Kawatiri Energy letter of intent (PDF, 142 KB)
• Councils and Iwi letter of support (PDF, 514 KB)

Part G – Management plans

• Cover page and list of lodged documents (PDF, 291 KB)
• Rehabilitation management plan (PDF, 37 MB)
• Avifauna management plan (PDF, 8 MB)
• Powelliphanta snail management plan (PDF, 3 MB)
• Lizard management plan (PDF, 9 MB)
• Aquatic ecology management plan (PDF, 21 MB)
• Biosecurity management plan (PDF, 7 MB)
• Weed management plan (PDF, 14 MB)
• Biodiversity outcome management plan (PDF, 11 MB)
• AMD water management plan (PDF, 37 MB)
• AMD ELF management plan (PDF, 19 MB)
• Water infrastructure design plan (PDF, 2 MB)
• ESCPLDA (PDF, 22 MB)
• Hazardous substances management plan (PDF, 11 MB)
• Waste management plan (PDF, 11 MB)
• Noise blasting and vibration management plan (PDF, 8 MB)
• Dust management plan (PDF, 5 MB)
• LVA management plan (PDF, 8 MB)
• Traffic manangement plan (PDF, 11 MB)
• Historic heritage and archaeological management plan (PDF, 10 MB)
• Pest control and elimination plan (PDF, 49 MB)
• Conceptual mine closure strategy (PDF, 11 MB)
• Stockton Mine AMD environmental management plan (PDF, 13 MB)
• Stockton Mine water environmental management plan (PDF, 6 MB)
• Millerton Block water and AMD management plan (PDF, 13 MB)
• Ngākawau operational and environmental management plan (PDF, 16 MB)
• Stockton ground and strata instability hazard management plan (PDF, 4 MB)

Part H – Landowners, adjacent landowners and records of title

• Cover page and list of lodged documents (PDF, 288 KB)
• Affected and adjacent landholders bundle 2 - Ngakawau, Stockton, Tintown, and Millerton (PDF, 39 MB)
• Affected and adjacent landholders - ESE, UWHR, Coalbrookdale and Waimangaroa (PDF, 33 MB)