Invitation for comments
On 28 April 2026 the North West Rapid Transit expert panel released Minute 2, recording their decision on which parties are to be invited to comment.
Minute 2 of the expert panel (PDF, 2.1MB)
The closing date for comments was 26 May 2026.
Information about commenting on a fast-track consenting application
Comments received
- Aaron & Fiona Bridges (PDF, 4 MB)
- Alex & Kim Milne (PDF, 1 MB)
- Amitesh Singh (PDF, 47 KB)
- Ana Lizbeth Tirado Ariza & Oscar Eduardo Mejia Badillo (PDF, 309 KB)
- Arbend & Kusum Singh (PDF, 70 KB)
- Barbara Schwalger (PDF, 572 KB)
- Ben & Lana Niu (PDF, 176 KB)
- Blayne Kriletich (PDF, 4 MB)
- Costco Wholesale New Zealand Limited (PDF, 485 KB)
- Costco Wholesale New Zealand Limited – Attachment 1 Transport Assessment (PDF, 1 MB)
- Costco Wholesale New Zealand Limited – Attachment 2 Letter to Auckland Council (PDF, 87 KB)
- Director-General of Conservation (PDF, 509 KB)
- Director General of Conservation – Appendix A (PDF, 351 KB)
- Foundry Group (PDF, 4 MB)
- Foundry Group – Code of Conduct (Acoustics) (PDF, 112 KB)
- Foundry Group – Code of Conduct (Planning) (PDF, 107 KB)
- Foundry Group – Code of Conduct (Engineering) (PDF, 48 KB)
- Harvey Commercial Holdings Limited (PDF, 340 KB)
- Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (PDF, 363 KB)
- Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga – Appendix A (PDF, 221 KB)
- Hui Liu & Ji Ma (PDF, 117 KB)
- Jo Johnson (PDF, 416 KB)
- John Tampo & Sheila Catedral (PDF, 462 KB)
- Jugal Presswala (PDF, 106 KB)
- Kainga Ora (PDF, 350 KB)
- Katrina Reinsfield (PDF, 186 KB)
- Kelly Cross & Peter Roach (PDF, 114 KB)
- Kim Weston (PDF, 262 KB)
- Lily Li & Tomas Antunes (PDF, 551 KB)
- Margaret McKinney (PDF, 196 KB)
- Matthew Richmond (PDF, 116 KB)
- Mike & Dorothy Booth (PDF, 96 KB)
- Minister for Infrastructure (PDF, 43 KB)
- Associate Minister of Transport (PDF, 50 KB)
- National Trading Company – Legal Submissions (PDF, 689 KB)
- National Trading Company – Corporate statement (PDF, 120 KB)
- National Trading Company – Planning statement (PDF, 1 MB)
- National Trading Company – Transport statement (PDF, 455 KB)
- North West Commercial (2018) Limited (PDF, 221 KB)
- NZRPG Management 2017 Limited & Westgate Properties (2017) Limited (PDF, 12 MB)
- Paul Dragicevich (PDF, 27 KB)
- Restaurant Brands (PDF, 3 MB)
- Sarah Doney & Jason Patrick Mangan (PDF, 2 MB)
- Selkprop Investments Limited (PDF, 333 KB)
- Shiree Taylor (Stout) (PDF, 211 KB)
- Stride Holdings – Legal Statement (PDF, 208 KB)
- Stride Holdings – Corporate Statement (PDF, 20 MB)
- Stride Holdings – Transport Statement (PDF, 2 MB)
- Stride Holdings – Engineering Statement (PDF, 2 MB)
- Tamaki Health (PDF, 161 KB)
- Te Ākitai Waiohua Settlement Trust (PDF, 467 KB)
- Transpower (PDF, 3 MB)
- Wei Bai Cen & Wen Yan Sun (PDF, 88 KB)
- Westgate Town Centre (2017) Limited (PDF, 1 MB)
- Woolworths New Zealand Limited (PDF, 15 MB)
Auckland Council
- Memorandum of planning matters for Auckland Council (PDF, 875 KB)
- Appendix 1– Auckland Council recommended designation conditions (PDF, 611 KB)
- Appendix 2 – Local Board views on NoRs and resource consents (PDF, 9 MB)
- Appendix 3 – Watercare Services Limited (PDF, 614 KB)
- Appendix 4 – Healthy Waters and Flood Resilience (HWFR) (PDF, 441 KB)
- Appendix 5 – Development engineering (Greg Hall) (PDF, 629 KB)
- Appendix 6 – Transport specialist (Mat Collins) (PDF, 435 KB)
- Appendix 7 – Urban design (Frank Pierard) (PDF, 619 KB)
- Appendix 8 – Landscape and visual (Peter Kensington) (PDF, 416 KB)
- Appendix 9 – Built Heritage (Mahshid Kakouei Ezbarami) (PDF, 319 KB)
- Appendix 10 – Parks and community facilities with addendum (PDF, 725 KB)
- Appendix 11 – Archaeology (Mica Plowman) (PDF, 333 KB)
- Appendix 12 – Arboricultural specialist (Regine Leung) (PDF, 249 KB)
- Appendix 13 – Heritage arborist (West Fynn) (PDF, 141 KB)
- Appendix 14 – Outstanding natural features geology (Kate Lewis) (PDF, 674 KB)
- Appendix 15 – Noise and vibration (Peter Runcie) (PDF, 275 KB)
- Appendix 16 – Terrestrial ecology (Rue Statham) (PDF, 309 KB)
- Appendix 17 – Stream works and freshwater ecology (Naz Tavasoli) (PDF, 230 KB)
- Appendix 18 – Coastal processes and marine ecology (Kala Sivaguru) (PDF, 303 KB)
- Appendix 19 – Groundwater (Richard Simonds) (PDF, 2 MB)
- Appendix 20 – Contaminated land (Duffy Visser) (PDF, 285 KB)
- Appendix 21 – Regional earthworks (Matthew Byrne) (PDF, 243 KB)
- Appendix 22 – Stormwater and ITA (Martin Meyer) (PDF, 277 KB)
- Appendix 23 – Environmental monitoring (Christian Greff Turza) (PDF, 247 KB)
- Appendix 24 – Eastern busway resource consent decisions (PDF, 19 MB)
- Appendix 25 – Responses to legal submissions re no condition 1 (PDF, 5 MB)
Applicant's response to comments received
On 3 June 2026, the applicant provided its response to comments received.