The Proposed Pareora Catchment Environmental Flow and Water Allocation Regional Plan (the Proposed Pareora Plan) was notified on 7 August 2010, along with Variation 18 to the Proposed Natural Resources Regional Plan (NRRP). Submissions for the Proposed Pareora Plan closed on Friday 1 October 2010, and submissions for Variation 18 closed on 3 September 2010.
The Proposed Pareora Plan introduces objectives, policies and rules to manage water resources in the Pareora Catchment. Variation 18 removes those parts of the Proposed Natural Resources Regional Plan as they apply to matters that are now addressed within the Proposed Pareora Plan.
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On 13 November 2010, Environment Canterbury publicly notified the availability of a summary of all decisions requested in submissions, and provided a period for further submissions in support of, or in opposition to, those submissions already made. Further submissions closed on Wednesday 1 December 2010.
Environment Canterbury will be holding a hearing into all submissions in 2011. All submitters giving notice of their wish to be heard will be advised of the hearing. Following the release of decisions by Environment Canterbury, any person who made a submission has a right of appeal, on questions of law, to the High Court. The hearing was scheduled to be held in the week commencing Monday 25 July 2011.