Application documents

Personal details have been redacted from the application documents.

Fast-track Approvals Act 2024 Substantive Application Form – Tekapo Power Scheme (PDF, 7.2MB)

Assessment of environmental effects (PDF, 3MB) 

Appendices 

Appendix A: Treaty impact assessment – Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua, Te Rūnanga o Waihao and Te Rūnanga o Moeraki (PDF, 6MB) 

Appendix B: Letters of support – Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua, Te Rūnanga o Waihao, Te Rūnanga o Moeraki and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu (PDF, 934KB)

Appendix C: Landowners adjacent to the Tekapo Power Scheme core land (PDF, 417KB)

Appendix D (Updated 25 July 2025): Proposed resource consent conditions (PDF, 410KB)

Appendix D (Superseded): Proposed resource consent conditions (PDF, 389KB)

Appendix E: Draft plans referred to in the proposed consent conditions (PDF, 7.9MB) 

Appendix F: Existing environment approach (PDF, 386KB)

Appendix G: Electricity sector benefits 2025 (PDF, 958KB)

Appendix H: Titles and deeds of easements (PDF, 4.6MB)

Appendix I: Schedule 57 (Takapō, Lake Tekapo), schedule 34 (Lake Pūkaki) and schedule 72 (Waitaki River) statutory acknowledgements (PDF, 109KB)

Appendix J: natural character, landscape and visual amenity effects Assessment 2023 (PDF, 10MB)

Appendix K: Hydrological and hydrogeological analyses 2023 (PDF, 41MB)

Appendix L: Assessment of aquatic environmental effects 2023 (PDF, 3MB)

Appendix M: Native fish assessment 2018 (PDF, 8MB)

Appendix N: Lakeshore geomorphology and processes existing environment and future effects 2022 (PDF, 10MB)

Appendix O: A Review of terrestrial invertebrate information for the Tekapo Power Scheme resource consents 2025 (PDF, 623KB)

Appendix P: Tekapo Herpetofauna Effects Assessment 2023 (PDF, 13MB)

Appendix Q: Assessment of ecological effects – Avifauna 2025 (PDF, 17MB)

Appendix R: Assessment of effects on vegetation 2023 (PDF, 4MB)

Appendix S: Tekapo hydro scheme reconsenting recreation review 2023 (PDF, 2MB)

Appendix T: Canterbury Policy Assessment – Canterbury Regional Policy Statement, Waitaki Water Allocation Plan and Canterbury Land and Water Plan Provisions (PDF, 467KB)

Appendix U: Letters of support (PDF, 3MB)