Court ends inshore sand mining with new temporary consent

With inshore dredging at an end and a midshore application dropped, McCallum Brothers’ remaining hope to keep taking sand rests with a single offshore appeal being heard over the coming weeks. After decades of sand being taken from just off the beach at Pakiri and Mangawhai, the Environment Court has formally ended McCallum Brothers Ltd’s (MBL) right to dredge so close to the shoreline. MBL’s inshore consent to mine 76,000 cubic metres of sand a year expired in 2020, but the company had continued to dredge there ever since, due to ‘rollover rights’ in the Resource Management Act that allowed i...