Gravel availability inquiry form

Use this form for availability advice to accompany your resource consent and gravel authorisation applications.

Matters to be aware of when considering your volume and duration
Gravel management strategy
The Canterbury Regional River Gravel Management Strategy provides guidance for the management of the river gravel resource in Canterbury and outlines the overarching rules for gravel extraction including rules on volume and duration.
It recommends:
  • Written authorisations will be issued for a maximum duration of 12 months and a maximum volume of 60,000 cubic metres (m³) across the entire Canterbury region.
  • Resource consents will be issued for a maximum duration of 12 months and a maximum volume of 60,000 cubic metres across the entire region, except on the Waimakariri River where durations of up to 5 years and volumes of up to the maximum available quantity will be considered.
Gravel authorisations
The Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP) has provisions that allow the river engineering team at Environment Canterbury to issue gravel authorisations where the criteria of the GMS and the LWRP are met. gravel authorisations are more cost effective, and may be issued quicker than a resource consent. Click here for more information. 
Gravel Charges
To support the management of gravel in Canterbury, holders of gravel resource consent or authorisations are charged a fee. This fee is charged at $0.11 per cubic metre of the total volume allocated on your resource consent or gravel authorisation. It does not depend on the volume actually extracted
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