The applicant proposes exchanging conservation land for other land with conservation value, to allow the development works to go ahead.
The proposal involves the exchange of approximately 170 hectares of private land with approximately 29.7 hectares of land held by the Department of Conservation.
More about the process for land exchange applications
Land exchange application
Land exchange application form (PDF, 545 KB)
Land exchange application overview report (PDF, 1.7 KB)
Completeness check s34(1) (PDF, 436 KB)
Appendices
- Appendix 1 – Index Table of Existing Resource Consents and Schedules (PDF, 120 KB)
- Appendix 2 – Letter from Tamatea Pōkai Whenua (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 3 – Ecological Values Land Exchange Report, SLR Consultants Ltd (PDF, 10 MB)
- Appendix 4 – Schedule 6a Integrated Mitigation and Offset Approach of RWSS Resource Consents Package (PDF, 2 MB)
- Appendix 5 – Schedule 9a Public Access & Offset Mitigation Progress Plan of RWSS Resource Consents Package (PDF, 2 MB)
- Appendix 6 – External Guidance for conservation values assessments, DOC (PDF, 236 KB)
- Appendix 7 – Recreational Assessment of RWSS, Opus International Consultants Ltd (PDF, 7 MB)
- Appendix 8 – Board of Inquiry Decision Report, BOI to Tukituki Catchment Proposal (PDF, 5 MB)
- Appendix 9 – Archaeological Assessment, Clough & Associates Ltd and P Parsons (PDF, 6 MB)
- Appendix 10 – Land Title Information, The Property Group (PDF, 782 KB)
- Appendix 11 – Land Status Report Makaroro River DOC Land, The Property Group (PDF, 4 MB)
Comments received
- Central Hawke's Bay District Council (PDF, 2 MB)
- Dr Amelia McQueen comment form (PDF, 288 KB)
- Dr Amelia McQueen (PDF, 1 MB)
- Dr Amelia McQueen supplementary evidence (PDF, 5 MB)
- Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand comment form (PDF, 158 KB)
- Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand (PDF, 90 KB)
- Fish and Game New Zealand (PDF, 6 MB)
- G Pain (PDF, 174 KB)
- Hastings District Council (PDF, 1 MB)
- Hawke's Bay/East Coast Conservation Board (PDF, 73 KB)
- Hawke's Bay Regional Council comment form (PDF, 447 KB)
- Hawke's Bay Regional Council (PDF, 310 KB)
- Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (PDF, 36 KB)
- Kathryn Bayliss comment form (PDF, 241 KB)
- Kathryn Bayliss (PDF, 152 KB)
- Kathryn Bayliss additional comments (PDF, 33 KB)
- Kaweka Gwavas Forest Company Limited (PDF, 967 KB)
- Mana Ahuriri Trust comment form (PDF, 900 KB)
- Mana Ahuriri Trust (PDF, 253 KB)
- Associate Minister of Agriculture (PDF, 43 KB)
- Minister for the Environment (PDF, 93 KB)
- Minister for Hunting and Fishing (PDF, 84 KB)
- Minister for Infrastructure (PDF, 45 KB)
- Minister for Māori Crown Relations (PDF, 186 KB)
- Minister for Regional Development (PDF, 541 KB)
- New Zealand Conservation Authority comment form (PDF, 434 KB)
- New Zealand Conservation Authority (PDF, 187 KB)
- New Zealand Four Wheel Drive Association (PDF, 18 KB)
- Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated (PDF, 1 MB)
- Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PDF, 223 KB)
- Public Trust (PDF, 907 KB)
- Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand comment form (PDF, 183 KB)
- Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand (PDF, 309 KB)
- Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Attachment 1 – Terrestrial Ecology review (PDF, 1 MB)
- Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Attachment 2 – Freshwater Ecology (PDF, 486 KB)
- Sharleen Baird (PDF, 173 KB)
- Tamatea Pōkai Whenua (PDF, 364 KB)
Applicant's response to comments received
Applicant response to comments received (PDF, 4.3MB)
Minutes of the panel convener
15 June 2026 – Minute 1
The panel convener issued Minute 1 regarding the timeframe for the Department of Conservation to prepare the land exchange report.