Te Ahu a Tūranga: Manawatū-Tararua Highway

This corridor crosses the Ruahine Ranges immediately north of the Manawatū Gorge and south of Saddle Road.

The new 11.5km long road will include roundabout connections with State Highway 57 south of Ashhurst and with State Highway 3 west of Woodville. The road will have two lanes in each direction over the majority of the route, separated by a median strip. There will be a new bridge crossing the Manawatū River, a number of structures crossing unnamed streams, and property access underpasses.

Palmerston North City Council, Manawatū District Council and Tararua District Council invited submissions under Section 169(1) of the Resource Management Act 1991 in November and December 2018.

NZ Transport Agency decision

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NZTA has identified a preferred option for a new State Highway 3 route to connect the Manawatū, Tararua District, Hawke’s Bay and northern Wairarapa, to replace the closed SH3 Manawatū Gorge route.

Below you will find all the relevant documents leading up to the decision above.

Territorial Authorities Recommendation Report to the NZ Transport Agency

Notice of requirement

Minutes and directions from the hearing panel

Section 42A technical evidence

New Zealand Transport Agency evidence

Submitter evidence

Pre-hearing meetings report

Hearing documents

Joint witness statements

Items tabled at the hearing

NZ Transport Agency

Video

NZTA indicative route fly-through.

• Ecologist - Dr A Forbes presentation - 25-3-19 1.4MB pdf
• Road Safety Audit - S Thornton - Manawatū Concept - 25-3-19 2.4MB pdf
• Updated Proposed Designation Conditions - 25-3-19 456KB pdf
• Addendum & Attachment Terrestrial Ecology - A Forbes 25-3-19 859KB pdf
• Addendum Cultural & Environmental Design Framework - Chris Bentley 25-3-19 279KB pdf
• Addendum Freshwater Ecology - Kieran Miller 25-3-19 301KB pdf
• Addendum Noise & Vibration - Stephen Chiles 25-3-19 360KB pdf
• Addendum Project Design - Andrew Whaley 25-3-19 354KB pdf
• Addendum Social Impact - Amelia Linzey 25-3-19 193KB pdf
• Addendum System Design - Sarah Downs 25-3-19 199KB pdf
• Addendum Terrestrial Fauna - Andrew Blayney 25-3-19 374KB pdf
• Addendum Transport & attachment revised travel times - David Dunlop 25-3-19 413KB pdf
• Addendum Effects on Ballantrae Trial Site - Jeff Morton 26-3-19 382KB pdf
• Addendum Planning & Conditions - Ainsley McLeod 26-3-19 410KB pdf
• Hydrology & Vegetation Stream 7 plan - Boyden Evans 594KB pdf
• Speaking notes - Kieran Miller - Freshwater Ecology 27-3-19 108KB pdf
• NZTA A O'Connor - 58893675 Designation Conditions - table of Conditions to be Amended 28-3-19 398KB pdf
• NZTA Designation Conditions - Mid Hearing Version 3-4-19 737KB pdf
• NZTA Project Design - Second Addendum of Andrew Whaley 3-4-19 1.5MB pdf
• NZTA Project Design - Second Addendum of Andrew Whaley - Figures 3-4-19 1.8MB pdf
• NZTA updated versions of parts of Plan Set D notated - Dr Forbes 3-4-19 11.5MB pdf
• Speaking notes - Siobhan Lynch-Karaitiana - Rangitāne o Manawatū 69KB pdf
• Evidence & Maps - Ngati Kahungunu Ngati Raukawa - James Kendrick 2-4-19 9.6MB pdf

Meridian Energy Ltd

• Opening legal submissions Meridian Energy Ltd - 25-3-19 8.4MB pdf
• Summary of evidence Meridian Energy - Christopher Simon Jones 27-3-19 102KB pdf
• Summary of evidence Meridian Energy- T Keyte 27-3-19 468KB pdf
• Summary of evidence Meridian Energy - L Daysh 28-3-19 103KB pdf
• Summary of evidence Meridian Energy - P Botha 27-3-19 291KB pdf
• Meridian Energy - Memo & briefs - response to hearing questions P Botha & evidence response T Keyte 2-4-19 859KB pdf

Horizons Regional Council

• Introduction Horizons Regional Council - B Gordon 28-3-19 217KB pdf
• Submission Horizons Regional Council Transport - P Hindrup 28-3-19 12.8MB pdf
• Horizons Regional Council 207073 - Transport Projects Map 28-3-19 12.8MB pdf

Palmerston North City Council

• PNCC legal submissions M G Conway - K E Viskovic 28-3-19 515KB pdf
• PNCC Addendum evidence Planning - David Murphy 1-4-19 293KB pdf
• PNCC Addendum evidence Transport - Mark Read 1-4-19 534KB pdf
• PNCC Addendum evidence Economics - Shane Vuletich 1-4-19 668KB pdf
• PNCC - Statement of Mayor Grant Smith 2-4-19 1.1MB pdf
• PNCC Joint addendum - Planning - David Murphy and Transport - Mark Read 3-4-19 419KB pdf

AgResearch

• Addendum to Evidence Ballantrae - AgResearch - Alec McKay 3-4-19 1.9MB pdf
• AgResearch Summary evidence Brent Clothier 3-4-19 162KB pdf
• AgResearch Summary of evidence Harold Henderson 3-4-19 116KB pdf
• AgResearch Summary evidence Jeremy Neild 3-4-19 130KB pdf
• AgResearch statement Ron Pellow 3-4-19 194KB pdf
• AgResearch Commissioner request for information - Ballantrae - Alec Makay 5-4-19 453KB pdf
• AgResearch - Table 1 List of field assessments for long-term systems trial - Alec Mackay 5-4-19 554KB pdf
• AgResearch - Further information requested by Panel 2.3MB pdf
• AgResearch Ballantrae Aerials 413KB pdf
• AgResearch powerpoint 3-4-19 2.5MB pdf

Director-General of Conservation

• D-G of Conservation Legal Submissions - Sarah Ongley 4-3-19 260KB pdf
• D-G of Conservation addendum evidence ecology Nick Goldwater 4-3-19 91KB pdf
• D-G of Conservation addendum evidence ecology Timothy Martin 4-3-19 117KB pdf
• D-G of Conservation addendum evidence ecology Kelvin Lloyd 4-3-19 96KB pdf
• D-G of Conservation addendum evidence Planning Michael Briggs 4-3-19 100KB pdf

S42A Reporting Team

• Addendum of Gregor McLean - Earthworks 4-3-19 94KB pdf
• Addendum of Harriet Fraser - Transport 4-3-19 165KB pdf
• Addendum of Jeff Baker - Recreation 4-3-19 440KB pdf
• Addendum of John Hudson - Landscape and Natural Character 4-3-19 487KB pdf
• Addendum of Kirsty Austin - Social Impacts Assessment 4-3-19 116KB pdf
• Addendum of Nigel Lloyd - Noise 4-3-19 117KB pdf
• Addendum PNCC Tararua and Manawatu District Councils - Ecology - James Lambie 5-4-19 163KB pdf
• Addendum PNCC Tararua and Manawatū District Councils - Planning - Phil Percy 5-4-19 269KB pdf
• Palmerston North City, Tararua and Manawatū District Councils - Condition set for panel - Nick Jessen 5-4-19 1.5MB pdf
• Legal submissions on behalf of the joint Councils - 3-4-19 803KB pdf

Various presenters

• Evidence Build the Path - B Barrett & R Kidwell - 27-3-19 358KB pdf
• Geopark amendments to submission 360 Source to Sea - Keith Joblin 2-4-19 350KB pdf
• Addendum Evidence - effects on Ballantrae Trial - Cory Matthew 3-4-19 105KB pdf
• Transpower hearing statement - Daniel Hamilton 5-4-19 558KB pdf
• Central Economic Development Agency notes to presentation 177KB pdf
• Central Economic Development Agency Presentation 1.7MB pdf
• Equestrian powerpoint 6.6MB pdf
• Fertiliser Association - Greg Sneath 585KB pdf
• Jim Jefferies speaking notes 115KB pdf
• Manawatu Mountain Bike Club presentation 20.5MB pdf
• Nicholas Shoebridge 60KB pdf
• QEII National Trust 9.7MB pdf
• Source to Sea 2.6MB pdf

New Zealand Transport Agency Reply

Comments on Draft Conditions

Hearing recordings