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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)
Comments received following Minute 6
Westgate Properties (2017) Limited (PDF, 4.3 MB)
Westgate Properties (2017) Limited Plan showing areas (PDF, 504 KB)
Panel's decision to accept late comments
On 13 July 2026, the expert panel issued Minute 16 confirming their decision to accept late comments for the North West Rapid Transit application.
Minute 16 of the expert panel (PDF, 109 KB)
Late comments
Ministry of Education (PDF, 278 KB)
Applicant response to comments received
On 3 June 2026, the applicant provided its response to comments received.