Environmental Defence Society Inc v The New Zealand King Salmon Co Ltd - [2014] 1 NZLR 593

Resource management — New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement — Interpretation — Apparently conflicting policies — Whether balancing approach appropriate — Duty of planning authorities to give effect to NZCPS — Interpretation of NZCPS — “Inappropriate” — NZCPS, policies 8, 13, 15 — Resource Management Act 1991, ss 55, 58.

Resource management — Resource consents — Whether and when requirement to consider alternative sites — Observations. — Resource Management Act 1991, s 32.