Application documents
Waitaha Hydro substantive application form (PDF, 1.85MB)
Waitaha Hydro substantive application document and assessment of environmental effects (PDF, 10.1MB)
Updated application documents
27 November 2025
On 27 November 2025, the applicant provided additional documents with updated concession conditions.
- Westpower Memorandum 4 (PDF, 112 KB)
- Draft concession conditions lease licence (long term) (PDF, 417 KB)
- Draft concession conditions lease licence (short term) (PDF, 477 KB)
- Draft concession conditions easements (PDF, 263 KB)
- Schedule 4 001 Granite Creek (PDF, 2 MB)
- Schedule 4 002 Power Station (PDF, 1 MB)
- Schedule 4 003 Headworks (PDF, 1 MB)
- Schedule 4 004 Tunnels (PDF, 2 MB)
- Schedule 5 005 McLeans Farm (PDF, 4 MB)
17 November 2025
On 17 November 2025, the applicant provided additional documents.
- Westpower Memorandum 2 (PDF, 201 KB)
- Attachment 1A (PDF, 105 KB)
- Attachment 1B (PDF, 133 KB)
- Attachment 1C (PDF, 625 KB)
- Attachment 2A (PDF, 688 KB)
- Attachment 2B (PDF, 192 KB)
- Attachment 3 (PDF, 1 MB)
- Attachment 4A (PDF, 293 KB)
- Attachment 4B (PDF, 2 MB)
- Attachment 5A (PDF, 337 KB)
- Attachment 5B (PDF, 3 MB)
- Attachment 6 (PDF, 225 KB)
- Attachment 7 (PDF, 170 KB)
- Attachment 8 (PDF, 598 KB)
- Attachment 9 (PDF, 74 KB)
5 September 2025
On 5 September 2025, the EPA was advised by the project director that Westpower Limited had retracted its suspended concession application.
Notification of retraction of concession (PDF, 74KB)
Appendices
- Appendix 1 Waitaha Hydro project location and coordinates register (PDF, 678 KB)
- Appendix 2 records of title (PDF, 21 MB)
- Appendix 3 project overview report part1 (PDF, 45 MB)
- Appendix 3 project overview report part2 (PDF, 10 MB)
- Appendix 4 letters to WCRC and WDC and Appendix B identification of existing resource consents (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 5 Letters from WCRC and WDC (PDF, 231 KB)
- Appendix 6 agreements with Westland Schist and Premier Group (PDF, 5 MB)
- Appendix 7 letter from consent holder (PDF, 426 KB)
- Appendix 8 letter from Poutini Ngāi Tahu.pdf (PDF, 158 KB)
- Appendix 9 feedback from DOC (PDF, 264 KB)
- Appendix 10 letter from MfE - pre-lodgment consultation (PDF, 134 KB)
- Appendix 11 Letter from WWNZ (PDF, 86 KB)
- Appendix 12 Letter from McLean farm manager (PDF, 136 KB)
- Appendix 13 letter from DWC (PDF, 343 KB)
- Appendix 14 partnership report (PDF, 474 KB)
- Appendix 15 economic benefits report (PDF, 521 KB)
- Appendix 16 electricity resilience report (PDF, 902 KB)
- Appendix 17 geology and geotechnical report (PDF, 12 MB)
- Appendix 18 hydrology report (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 19 sediment report (PDF, 2 MB)
- Appendix 20 vegetation report (PDF, 23 MB)
- Appendix 21 terrestrial fauna report (PDF, 10 MB)
- Appendix 22 Whio report (PDF, 4 MB)
- Appendix 23 terrestrial invertebrates report (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 24 lizard report (PDF, 4 MB)
- Appendix 25 freshwater ecology report (PDF, 15 MB)
- Appendix 26 IFIM report (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 27 landscape report (PDF, 45 MB)
- Appendix 28 recreation report (PDF, 7 MB)
- Appendix 29 noise report (PDF, 8 MB)
- Appendix 30 traffic report (PDF, 2 MB)
- Appendix 31 downstream flow modelling report (PDF, 4 MB)
- Appendix 32 public river safety report (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 33 construction and environmental management plan (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 34 erosion and sediment control plan (PDF, 11 MB)
- Appendix 35 vegetation management plan (PDF, 466 KB)
- Appendix 36 avifauna management plan (PDF, 267 KB)
- Appendix 37 bat management plan (PDF, 321 KB)
- Appendix 38 lizard management plan (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 39 freshwater ecology management plan (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 40 landscape management plan (PDF, 6 MB)
- Appendix 41 construction noise management plan (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 42 conceptual scheme design drawings (PDF, 46 MB)
- Appendix 43 preliminary access road drawings (PDF, 17 MB)
- Appendix 44 preliminary instream structure drawings (PDF, 21 MB)
- Appendix 45 proposed conditions resource consent (PDF, 1 MB)
- Appendix 46 proposed conditions DOC concessions (PDF, 287 KB)
- Appendix 47 proposed conditions wildlife approvals (PDF, 380 KB)
- Appendix 48 proposed conditions complex freshwater fishery activities (PDF, 210 KB)
- Appendix 49 fish facility information for complex freshwater fishery activities (PDF, 187 KB)
- Appendix 50 regional and distric land plan assessment.pdf (PDF, 555 KB)
- Appendix 51 statutory assessment regional & district plans.pdf (PDF, 942 KB)
- Appendix 52 management strategy and conservation general policy statutory assessment.pdf (PDF, 392 KB)