PAUL ROGERS
PAUL ROGERS
INDEPENDENT HEARINGS COMMISSIONER
INDEPENDENT HEARINGS COMMISSIONER
Paul is a specialist resource management legal practitioner. He has worked exclusively in this area since approximately 1990. After many years leading the resource management team at Anthony Harper, Paul established and led the specialist environmental law practice Adderley Head from March 2009 to March 2023.
Paul is a certified Independent Hearings Commissioner with Chair’s endorsement accreditation. He is frequently appointed chair of independent commissioner panels and councilor panels to help hear and determine the more complex and challenging resource consent applications and plan changes. Paul is very experienced in a wide range of resource consent applications, plan changes, plan review matters and designations.
Paul was appointed by the Ministry for the Environment to the “Making Good Decisions Board” (now disbanded), which was a body overseeing the implementation of the “Making Good Decisions” programme ensuring best practice by commissioners in hearings under the Resource Management Act. Paul is a current presenter in the Making Good Decisions recertification course, which is attended by Commissioners throughout New Zealand.
Puketoi Windfarm Consent Variation- Appointed by Tararua District Council, Palmerston North City Council and Horizons Regional Council as Chair of a panel to hear decide a variation to an existing consent.(Current)
Silver Fern Farms - Appointed by Canterbury Regional Council as Chair of a panel to hear decide a discharge consent(Current)
Christchurch City Council- Appointed on a range of matters usually involving complex planning and legal issues to make decisions on notification and the granting of resource consents.(Current)
Ravenswood Developments Limited- Private Plan Change Request to establish a Key Activity Centre and rezone land for Business purposes- Appointed by Waimakariri to chair a hearings panel and make recommendations(Current)
Taggart Earthmoving- Appointed by Environment Canterbury and Waimakariri District Council as Chair of a Panel to hear and decide a range of regional consents relating to discharges to air land and water and land use consent to establish and operate a gravel winning quarry(Current)
Oceania Coastal Waste Water Discharge- Appointed by Canterbury Regional Council as Chair of a panel to hear and decide a range of consents relating to construction of a waste water pipeline and discharge of waste plant water into the sea. Oceania operates a dairy factory. (Decision issues September 2020).
Te Ahu a Tūranga Manawatū Tararua Highway – Appointed by Palmerston North City Council as Chair of a hearing panel to hear and make a recommendation to designate land to accommodate a new state highway connection north of Manawatū Gorge and south of Saddle Road (recommendation issued May 2019).
Mercury Turitea Wind Farm – Jointly appointed by Palmerston North City Council, Tararua District Council and Manawatu-Wanganui (Horizons) Regional Council as Commissioner to hear and decide an application to vary and amend resource consent conditions relating to the Turitea Wind Farm.(decision issues 15 May 2019)
Klondkye Storage Facility – Jointly appointed by the Canterbury Regional Council and Ashburton District Council as Chair of a hearings panel to hear and decide multiple applications by Rangitata Diversion Race Management Limited in relation to the construction, operation and maintenance of Klondyke Storage Facility and associated rotary fish screen (decision issued July 2018).
Queenstown District Plan Review - Appointed to the hearing panel to hear the submissions on Stage 1 of the Proposed District Plan. These submissions relate to Designations and Business Zones (decision for Designations issued April 2018 and decision for Business Zones issued December 2017)
Te Rere Hau Wind Farm – Appointed by Palmerston North City Council as Chair of a hearing panel to hear and determine a review of resource consent conditions for the Te Rere Hau Wind Farm (decision issued November 2017)
Waverley Wind Farm - Appointed as Chair of a hearing panel by South Taranaki District Council to hear and determine a suite of resource consent applications for the construction, operation and maintenance of a 48 turbine wind farm near Waverley, South Taranaki (decision issued July 2017)
He Ara Kotahi Project - Appointed as Chair of a hearing panel by Horizons Regional Council to hear and determine resource consent applications to construct a shared Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge in the flood protection zone and across the Manawatū River (decision issued April 2017)
Levin Landfill - Appointed as Chair of a hearing panel to hear and determine applications to vary and amend resource consents and conditions relating to the Levin Landfill. (decision issued November 2016)
Fonterra Milk Processing Factory – Jointly appointed by Environment Canterbury and Waimate District Council to hear and determine resource consent applications for the proposed expansion of the Fonterra milk processing facility at Studholme (decision issued June 2016)
Kakapo Brook - Appointed as Chair of a hearing panel to hear and determine applications for the taking, diverting, storage, damming and use of surface water for the purposes of hydropower generation and irrigation, and the associated use of land in relation to the irrigation activity, at Kakapo Brook, Hurunui. (decision issued Nov 2015)
Waimakariri Irrigation Scheme Storage Ponds - Appointed as Chair of a hearing panel to hear and determine resource consent applications to construct, use, and maintain a two-pond water storage system and associated infrastructure for the purposes of storing water abstracted from the Waimakariri River for later use in the Waimakariri Irrigation Limited irrigation scheme. (decision issued October 2014)
Ngāi Tahu Water Consents & Land Use Consent for Irrigation Purposes in Balmoral Forest - Appointed as Chair of a hearing panel to hear and determine resource consent applications to divert, take, and use water for irrigation, dairy wash down, and stock drinking-water from the Waiau River. (decision issued July 2014)
Retrospective and Resource Consent Applications - Appointed by Marlborough District Council to hear and determine resource consent applications to carry out earthworks and build structures within a Conservation Zone, together with related applications for discharge of stormwater and wastewater. (decision issued Dec 2013)