Plan Change 3A was approved on 30 March 2011 and is operative from 1 May 2011.

Download operative Plan Change 3A (1 MB).

Plan Change 3A Archive

This Council notified Proposed Plan Change 3A (Minimum Flow for Taieri River at Tiroiti) on Saturday 26 June 2010. A hearing of submissions was held on 24 September 2010. Decisions were released on 11 December 2010.

Summary of Proposed Plan Change 3A (Minimum Flow for Taieri River at Tiroiti)

This Council notified Proposed Plan Change 3A (Minimum Flow for Taieri River at Tiroiti) on Saturday 26 June 2010. The purpose of Proposed Plan Change 3A (Minimum Flow for Taieri River at Tiroiti) is to add an additional minimum flow and monitoring site using the existing Tiroiti flow recorder. A minimum flow of 1150 l/s was proposed. The decision to set the minimum flow at Tiroiti at 1100 l/s has not been appealed.

The Summary of Decisions Requested was released on Saturday 14 August 2010. Further submissions closed on 27 August 2010. The hearing of submissions was held on 24 September 2010 and the Hearing Committee has considered the decisions. Council has made its decision. Decisions were notified on 11 December 2010.

View the public notice notifying the proposed plan change

Proposed Plan Change 3A (Minimum Flow for Taieri River at Tiroiti)

Proposed Plan Change 3A (Minimum Flow for Taieri River at Tiroiti) can be viewed by downloading the documents below. Copies are also available for viewing from:

Otago Regional Council offices

• 70 Stafford Street, Dunedin
• William Fraser Building, Dunorling Street, Alexandra
• 32 Ribble Street, Oamaru
• Terrace Junction, 1092 Frankton Road, Queenstown

All public libraries throughout Otago

City and District Council offices throughout Otago

To request a hard copy of Proposed Plan Change 3A (Minimum Flow for Taieri River at Tiroiti), please contact the Policy Team:

Email policy@orc.govt.nz
|Phone 03 474 0827 or 0800 474 082
Fax 03 479 0015

Download Proposed Plan Change 3A

Download accompanying table of proposed changes

Download Section 32 Report

Summary of decisions requested

This Council released the Summary of Decisions Requested by Submitters on Saturday 14 August 2010.

Download the Summary of Decisions Requested by Submitters

View the original submissions (PDF combined)

Further submissions were received up to 27 August 2010

Download the Summary of Decisions Requested by Submitters and Further Submitters

Hearing of submissions and further submissions

The hearing was held on Friday 24 September, in the Middlemarch Community Hall, Middlemarch.

View the Officers Report on Decisions Requested

Council decisions

The Council's decision was released on 11 December 2010.

View the Council decisions

Next steps in the process

Otago Regional Council has given its decisions on Proposed Plan Change 3A (Minimum Flow for Taieri River at Tiroiti). As there have been no appeals made, Plan Change 3A is effectively operative. Council will notify in April 2011 when it is to be made fully operative.