Invitation for comments
On 6 October 2025, the Pound Road Industrial Development expert panel released Minute 2 recording their decision on which parties were to be invited to comment.
Minute 2 of the expert panel (PDF, 2.6MB)
The closing date for comments was 4 November 2025.
Comments received
- Game Animal Council (PDF, 696 KB)
- Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage & Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations (PDF, 131 KB)
- Minister for the Environment (PDF, 277 KB)
- Minister of Infrastructure (PDF, 46 KB)
- Whitiora Centre Limited (PDF, 293 KB)
- Cass Jones & Gemma McLaughlin (PDF, 485 KB)
- Cass Jones & Gemma McLaughlin Mitigations map (PNG, 919 KB)
- Canterbury Aoraki Conservation Board (PDF, 358 KB)
- Carey Jones (PDF, 70 KB)
- Canterbury Regional Council (PDF, 382 KB)
- Canterbury Regional Council Appendices (PDF, 6 MB)
- John & Philippa Borlase (PDF, 76 KB)
- Minister for the South Island & Associate Minister of Transport (PDF, 238 KB)
- Warwick & Marianne Wright (PDF, 2 MB)
- Director-General of Conservation (PDF, 578 KB)
- Department of Corrections (PDF, 211 KB)
- New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (PDF, 2 MB)
Christchurch City Council
- Christchurch City Council comments (PDF, 139 KB)
- Appendix 1 - Brian Norton - Stormwater Comments (PDF, 92 KB)
- Appendix 2 - Michele McDonald - Water and Wastewater Comment - Pound Road Industrial Area (PDF, 83 KB)
- Appendix 3 - Yvonne McDonald - Engineering - Geotechnical Earthworks QA (PDF, 88 KB)
- Appendix 4 - Rodney Yeoman and Derek Foy - Formative - Economic Peer Review (PDF, 4 MB)
- Appendix 5 - Ian Millner - LandVision Review Memo (PDF, 2 MB)
- Appendix 6 - Peter Rodgers - Transport Comments (PDF, 174 KB)
- Appendix 7 - Chris McClure - Herpetology Comments (PDF, 174 KB)
- Appendix 8 - EOS Ecology - Catherine Grima - Aquatic Ecology Peer Review (PDF, 7 MB)
- Appendix 9 - William Field - Urban Design and Landscape Comments (PDF, 256 KB)
- Appendix 10 - Andrew Crossland - Avifauna Comments (PDF, 68 KB)
- Appendix 11 - Agnes van der Erf - Environmental Health Comments (PDF, 121 KB)
- Appendix 12 - Cedric Carranceja – Legal opinion on NPS-HPL from Ryans Road Fast Track (PDF, 397 KB)
- Appendix 13 - David Caldwell Legal Advice - NPS-HPL and nearest equivalent zones (PDF, 487 KB)
Panel's decision to accept late and uninvited comments
On 8 December 2025, the panel issued Minute 7 confirming their decision to accept late comments received for the Pound Road Industrial Development application.
Minute 7 of the panel (PDF, 111KB)
Late comments
Applicant's response to comments received
- Memorandum of counsel accompanying the Applicants reply under s 55 of the FTAA (PDF, 829 KB)
- Appendix 1: Planning memo Pound Road (PDF, 420 KB)
- Appendix 2: CCC conditions (PDF, 567 KB)
- Appendix 3: CRC Conditions (PDF, 8 MB)
- Appendix 4: Transport Response (PDF, 48 MB)
- Appendix 5: Infrastructure Response (PDF, 200 KB)
- Appendix 6: Economics response (PDF, 2 MB)
- Appendix 7: Aquatic Ecology response (PDF, 249 KB)
- Appendix 8: Wildlands Lizard and Ecology Response (PDF, 998 KB)
- Appendix 8a: Revised LMP 10 11 25 (PDF, 9 MB)
- Appendix 9: Landscape response (PDF, 507 KB)
- Appendix 9a: Landscape Plans (PDF, 5 MB)
- Appendix 10: Email confirmation from Correction (PDF, 397 KB)
- Appendix 11: Memorandum to the Panel in response to the NPS HPL (PDF, 3 MB)
- Updated scheme plan (PDF, 321 KB)
- Updated engineering plans (PDF, 12 MB)