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Landfill hearings dates announced

Nicole Mathewson Reporter from Northern Outlook

By David Hill, Local Democracy Reporter

A date has been set for resource consent hearings into a proposed quarry and landfill near Oxford.

Environment Canterbury (ECan) and the Waimakariri District Council will hold joint hearings over two weeks from May 16 at Oxford and Rangiora to consider consent applications from Woodstock Quarries Ltd.

The company has lodged five consent applications with ECan and a land use consent with the Waimakariri District Council to expand an existing hard rock quarry and to develop a landfill at 513 Trig Rd, View Hill, northwest of Oxford.

The landfill would be for the disposal of construction and demolition waste, contaminated soils and special wastes.

The two councils issued a joint notification last year and it soon gained attention on social media.

About 400 submissions were received in response to the resource consent applications.

The hearing will be held before a panel of independent commissioners, and will include evidence and viewpoints presented by the applicant, submitters, and reporting officers.

Hearings will be held in the A&P Room at the Oxford Town Hall from Tuesday to Friday, May 16 to 19, from 9.30am each day.

It will then move to Rossburn Receptions on Sparks Road, Rangiora, from Monday to Tuesday, May 22 to 23, with Wednesday, May 24, as a reserve day.

Once the hearings are completed, the commissioners will have 15 working days to make and announce their decision.

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