Wrong place, wrong process

The wrong place, the wrong process, excessive risk and adverse effects – although voiced in a myriad of different ways, these were the key reasons consistently submitted by those appealing for the landfill not to go ahead.

Whether it was Fight the Tip, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua, Forest & Bird, the Department of Conservation, or Ngāti Whātua Ōrakei/Te Uri o Hau, the same points kept being made in their lawyers’ closing submissions, whether in relation to the environment, iwi, community or resource management itself.

Andrew Braggins, acting for Fight the Tip, stated simply that t...