Hearing 8: Notable Trees
No hearing was required as no submitter has requested speaking time. For more information on the hearing, including all relevant reports please see the page below.
Please note that additional correspondence that may relate to this hearing can be found below:
Directions of the Commissioners and Hearing Panel
Submitters Correspondence
Council Officers
Notice of hearing
Please note that submission points that are considered to be beyond the scope of the Proposed District Plan or where a further submission does not relate to an original submission point will also be addressed in this hearing.
Detailed schedule
Here you can find the detailed agenda for the hearing, including which submissions will be heard within each time slot.
- No hearing is required as no submitter has requested speaking time.
Section 42A report
This report is prepared by Council staff in accordance with Section 42A of the RMA. It recommends (with reasons) whether any changes should be made to the notified Proposed Plan in response to the submissions and further submissions. These recommendations do not bind the Hearings Panel.
The report is intended to assist the Hearings Panel to make decisions, and to provide submitters with an opportunity to see how their submissions have been evaluated and the recommendations made by Council staff, prior to the hearing.
- Council’s s42A Historic Heritage and Notable Trees report [PDF, 1270 KB]
- Appendix 1: Table of Submission Points [PDF, 544 KB]
- Appendix 2: Recommended amendments [PDF, 239 KB]
- Appendix 3: Attachment 1 Heritage Item Record Form - Homestead Building / Ivey Hall (including Memorial Hall) [PDF, 541 KB]
- Appendix 3: Attachment 2 Historic Heritage Item Record Form - former Will Kennedy Hut and Shed [PDF, 221 KB]
- Appendix 3: Attachment 3 Historic Heritage Item Record Form - Rolleston Hotel / The Rolly Inn [PDF, 304 KB]
- Appendix 3: Attachment 4 Historic Heritage Item Record Form - Mill House [PDF, 261 KB]
- Appendix 3: Statement of Evidence - Dr Ann McEwan, Heritage Consultancy Services [PDF, 142 KB]
- Appendix 4: Statement of Evidence - Christopher Walsh - Treetech [PDF, 125 KB]
- Appendix 4: Attachment 1 STEM Assessment - Glentunnel Library [XLSX, 31 KB]
- Appendix 5: Historic Heritage Item Record Form - Brucecoe Lodge former Coe Homestead [PDF, 352 KB]
Questions from the Hearings Panel on the s42A report and the Officer's response to these questions:
Submitter evidence
Expert evidence
Submitters who intend to call expert evidence in support of their submissions are directed to provide written briefs of that evidence to the Hearings Administrator no later than 10 working days prior to the relevant topic-based hearing, except for the Rezoning Requests hearing, which has a different sequence of evidence exchange. All expert witnesses presenting briefs of evidence are to include a summary statement that is no more than two A4 pages long at the beginning of their evidence. Expert evidence is that written by qualified planners, engineers or scientists, for example, prepared in accordance with the Environment Court’s Practice Note 2014 for expert witnesses.
Written evidence by submitters
If submitters intend to provide written evidence themselves, or have non-expert people appear on their behalf, then they are requested and strongly urged to also provide a written statement of that evidence to the Hearings Administrator no later than 10 working days prior to the relevant topic-based hearing.
Pre-hearing and expert conferencing
Here you can find information on any Council initiated pre-hearing meeting with submitters or any expert conferencing directed by the Hearings Panel.
Legal submissions
If any party intends to have legal counsel present legal submissions, they are requested to provide those submissions to the Hearings Administrator no later than 5 working days prior to the relevant topic-based hearing.
- Hearing 8: Notable Trees - No legal submissions have been provided
Hearing presentation
All hearings will be public and livestreamed on Council’s YouTube channel.
Post hearing correspondence and Council reply
Correspondence from any party who is requested to provide further information by the Hearings Panel following the conclusion of the hearing can be found here. Following the conclusion of each hearing the Council will provide a written ‘Section 42A Reply Report’, briefly outlining any amendments to their original recommendations and also a response to any questions from the Hearings Panel arising during the course of the hearing.
The Council has prepared and released the Historic Heritage and Notable Trees Right of Reply Report:
- Right of Reply Report - Historic Heritage and Notable Trees 27 October 2021 [PDF, 1249 KB]
- Appendix 3: Historic Heritage Affected Landowners Engagement Process [PDF, 266 KB]
- Specific Report - Heritage Items and Protected Trees [PDF, 1397 KB]
- Historical Overview of the Selwyn District - Dr John Wilson, June 2018 [PDF, 25138 KB]
- Heritage Items and Protected Trees - Planning Assessment, March 2018 [PDF, 12313 KB]
- New Heritage Item Nominations - Sample Letter 28 March 2018 [PDF, 266 KB]
- Preferred Option Report to District Plan Committee, August 2018 [PDF, 3466 KB]
- District Plan Review: Update on Proposed Changes to Heritage Items - Sample Letter [PDF, 255 KB]
- Built Heritage Items for Proposed Registration Peer Review, February 2019 [PDF, 1031 KB]
- Post Engagement Preferred Option Update Report to District Plan Committee, 5 December 2018 [PDF, 216 KB]
- Appendix 4: Rolleston Inn [PDF, 3171 KB]
- Appendix 5: Lincoln University [PDF, 17310 KB]
- Appendix 6: St Joseph's Church - Darfield [PDF, 354 KB]
- Appendix 7: Selwyn District Council and Orion - Joint Witness Statement [PDF, 116 KB]
Council Decision
The Council’s decision relating to this topic can be accessed through the link below. Any recommended amendments are contained in Appendix 1 of the decision.
Hearing 8: Notable Trees [PDF, 362 KB]
Amendments recommended by the Section 42A Report author that have been adopted by the Hearing Panel are shown in strike out and underlining. Further or different amendments recommended by the Hearing Panel are shown in strike out, underlining and red font.
The list of whether submissions and further submissions are accepted, accepted in part or rejected are outlined in Appendix 1 of the Section 42A report, except if altered by the Council’s decision.