Notification of Resource Consent Application: Notable Plane Trees

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Resource Management Act 1991
Public Notification of Resource Consent Application to the Horowhenua District Council
For Land Use Consent under
Section 95A of the Resource Management Act 1991

The Horowhenua District Council has received the following resource consent application for consideration.

Description

Application for Resource Consent to Remove 27 Notable Trees on Oxford Street, Levin

Location

Oxford Street, Levin from Queen Street West to Devon Street, Levin

Applicant

Horowhenua District Council, Community Experience and Services Group

Application number

LUC/501/2021/321

Details of the proposed activity

The applicant seeks to remove twenty-seven (27) of the thirty-eight (38) Platanus x acerfolia (Plane trees) planted along Oxford Street (SH1), Levin.

These plane trees are in the road corridor along Oxford Street (SH1) between Queen Street West and Devon Street, across a distance of 300 metres.

These plane trees have Notable Tree status under the Horowhenua District Plan and are identified as NT23 – NT34 and NT47 – NT60.

The removal of the trees would consist of cutting each tree off at the base, grinding the stumps to sit below the adjoining asphalt level and their former locations then re-sealed in asphalt, and where practicable, converted back into parking spaces.

The application includes an Assessment of Environmental Effects, an Arboriculture Assessment and an Assessment of Landscape and Visual Effects.

The documents are available for inspection at the following locations during opening hours:

  • Horowhenua District Council Main Office: 126 Oxford Street, Levin
  • Te Takeretanga o Kura-hau-pō: 10 Bath Street, Levin. 
  • Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom: 92 Main Street, Foxton.
  • Shannon Library: Plimmer Terrace, Shannon

The documents are also available on Council’s website at horowhenua.govt.nz/PlaneTrees

Submissions

Any person may make a submission on the application, but a person who is a trade competitor of the applicant may do so only if that person is directly affected by an effect of the activity to which the application relates that:

(a) adversely affects the environment; and
(b) does not relate to trade competition or the effects of trade competition.

Submissions can be either electronic or hard copy and must be:

Note to submitter: You must serve a copy of your submission to Horowhenua District Council (HDC) Community Experience and Services Group (the applicant), as well as HDC’s planning team (consent authority). The address for service is provided above. On receipt of any submissions, the hearings administrator will deliver a copy of your submission to the Applicant well as to the Planner at the Horowhenua District Council.

Submissions must be made in writing in the form prescribed (Form 13). Copies of this form are available from Council facilities referred to above or can be downloaded from horowhenua.govt.nz/PlaneTrees

Submissions close at 4:45pm on Tuesday 2 May 2023.

Monique Davidson
Chief Executive
Horowhenua District Council
31 March 2023