If you need to renew or apply for a water take to meet your water consent requirements, we’ll assist you in preparing your application to meet local plan obligations. A water take may be a ground or surface water take for a dairy shed, domestic use, irrigation, or commercial use. We can also help if you are looking to dam or divert water by outlining the relevant consent requirements.

Coastal permits are required for some activities to be undertaken in the coastal marine area. SLWP can guide you if you are looking to undertake activities within the coastal marine area such as:

• Building a structure like a jetty

• Activity that may cause disturbance to seabed or foreshore

• Discharges into coastal water

• Aquaculture or commercial surface water activities

Land use consents can be required for a variety of activities. The purpose of these resource consents is to promote sustainable management and minimise the effects of the proposed activity on people and the environment. We have extensive experience preparing resource consent applications for big and small projects and we’re here to guide you through the process.

Examples of types of activities that may need land use consent include:

• gravel takes

• effluent storage ponds

• intensive winter grazing

• cultivation on sloping ground

• silage pits

• bridges

• culverts

• earthworks

• building a new house or shed too close to the adjoining property

You may be required to put together a farm environment plan for your farming operation. We’ll help you determine what is required, and work with you to develop a plan that is reflective of your vision for your farm.

Are you proposing to run a business or activity on Department of Conservation land? We can outline the type of information you need and help to prepare the relevant application(s). 

Whether you need a consent, a farm environment plan or a consent monitoring plan. We understand farm systems and resource management so give us a call to see how we can help.

If your resource consent application needs technical support from an expert, we can help. In house, we can provide you with ecology, contaminated land, ecological monitoring, or soil or groundwater investigations. If we don’t have what you need in house, we have great relationships with other technical experts such as surveyors, and can work with them to help you achieve your goals.

Discharge permits cover activities that discharge to water, air, or land. For example, our team can support you by preparing your farm dairy effluent consent application for the discharge of effluent on your farm. SLWP will work with you to tailor the application to meet plan requirements, including putting together effluent management plans. 

We can also assist with outlining the consent requirements and drawing up your application for discharges of dust, odour, smoke, or other contaminants into the air.

Our team can assist you with the consultation process of your consent application. Obtaining affected party approval prior to lodging your application can save you time and money. 

This can include identifying potentially affected parties, outlining why their written approval is required, and preparing consultation information to assist with this part of the consenting process.

Are you looking to do a boundary relocation or looking to create new lots? If so, we can work with a surveyor to ready your application for consent.

We have extensive experience preparing resource consent applications for big and small projects. This can include identifying minimum lot sizes, services needed, who potentially affected parties are, outlining why their written approval is required, and preparing consultation information to assist with this part of the consenting process.

SLWP can help you to prepare evidence for hearing committees, assist with drafting submissions to resource consent applications, or plan changes that may affect you, to ensure your interests are represented. 

Our team is experienced in all stages of policy development, from scoping and drafting policies through to preparing submissions and presenting at hearings. We can guide you through this process or assist with reviewing and drafting policies.

Some activities, for example, subdivision, may require the preparation of a landscape assessment.

Landscape assessments help show how developments will look and fit into the existing environment. Landscape assessments are required for some developments to assess possible impacts on the surrounding landscape.

We have a certified Nutrient Management Advisor on our team who understands farm systems. If you need an overseer nutrient budget, we can work with you to understand your farming system and prepare one for you.