Water Allocation Appeals Committee

Notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Proposed Waikato Regional Plan: Proposed Variation No.6 – Water Allocation Appeals Hearing Committee to be held in the Council Chambers, Environment Waikato (Waikato Regional Council) office, 401 Grey Street, Hamilton East at 1.00pm on Wednesday, 9 December 2009.

RF Laing
Chief Executive Officer

RECOMMENDATIONS contained in reports are NOT to be construed as COUNCIL DECISIONS. Please refer to Council minutes for RESOLUTIONS.

MEMBERS: CD Arcus (Chairperson), SP Friar and PA Southgate.

IN ATTENDANCE: Staff:
Group Manager Resource Information (RA Petch), Senior Policy Advisor (B McAuliffe), Legal Advisor Policy (N Rye), Hydrologist (E Brown), Environmental Manager (D Speirs) and Committee Administrator (D Thurlow).

APOLOGIES: J Milne, Legal Counsel

Confirmation of Agenda

SECTION A: (UNDER DELEGATION FOR THE INFORMATION OF COUNCIL)

Pages

Appeals to the decisions on Proposed Waikato Regional Plan: 1-2

Variation No.6 – Water Allocation (December 2009)
File No. 23 12 02 Doc # 1587301
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The purpose of this report is to provide an update to the Appeals Committee on the progress on resolving appeals to Variation No.6.

3. Resolution to Exclude the Public

Recommended that in accordance with the provisions of Standing Orders NZS9202:2003 Appendix A & B (P40/42) and Section 48 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, the public be excluded from the following part/s of the proceedings of the meeting.

The general subject of each matter to be considered while the public is excluded, the reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter and the specific grounds under Section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 for the passing of this resolution are as follows:

Item No.	Item Name and general subject of each matter to be considered	Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter	Ground(s) under Section 48(1) for the passing of this resolution
4.	Matters for Guidance – Variation No.6 – Water Allocation Appeals	Good reasons to withhold exists under Section 7, and Right of appeal as per S48(2)(a)(i)	S48(1)(a) and S48(1)(d)

This recommendation is made in reliance on Section 48(1)(a) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 and the particular interest or interests protected by Section 6 or Section 7 of that Act which would be prejudiced by the holding of the whole or relevant part of the proceedings of the meeting in public are as follows:

Item No.	Reason/s for withholding official information	Section/s
4	Legal privilege Conduct of negotiations Right of appeal	s7 (g) s7 (i) s48 (2) (a) (i)

Variation No. 6 Water Allocation - Matters for Guidance (December 2009) 3-25

File No. 23 12 02 Doc # 1568089

The purpose of this report is to seek guidance from the Appeals Committee on how to proceed in resolving issues raised in the appeals.

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