We are running a submissions workshop on Monday 16 February 2009 at Tiritea School from 7.30pm until 9.30pm. Please dip in and chat with us about your submission if you've got any questions. With this in mind, have a look at the presentation (PDF) made by John Maassen, the PNCC lawyer from Cooper-Rapley, last Thursday at the Convention Centre. There's some real good stuff in there on how to bring your submission to life to give it some context and make it more personal.

Mighty River Power released some resources about the proposed Turitea Wind Farm on their website on 24 July 2008.

Submissions for the Horizons Regional "One Plan" (to rule them all?) are due by

31 August 2007

From the Horizons Frequently Asked Questions website:

Q. What Does the One Plan Include?
A. One Plan will be a combined Regional Policy Statement and Regional Plan dealing with matters Horizons is responsible for under the Resource Management Act (RMA) 1991. Its eight themes are:

• Issues of Significance to Iwi
  
• Land
  
• Water
  

After considering a wide range of issues, the commissioners concluded that for this wind farm proposal, the benefits derived in terms of renewable energy and climate change were not of sufficient national importance, national value and benefit to justify the significant adverse effects associated with landscape, amenity and cultural issues and thus claim sufficient sustainable management of natural and physical resources, such that the consent could be granted in its entirety.