Surfbreak Protection Society
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Save Mangamaunu
Nationally Significant Surf break to be destroyed – For a Cycle Way? In order to provide a cycle way and car park for better access to the surf break, Mangamaunu itself will be adversely affected. Please sign the petition 19 March …
Duke Kahanahamoku – Our Nation Celebrating 100 years since.
“Where is this Honolulu Maori you call Hawaiian?” Are the words that paramount chief Tureiti Te Heuheu Tukino V of Ngati Tuwharetoa spoke as he made his way through the crowd seeking the Olympic gold medalist giving his surfing demonstration at Lyall Bay …
Proposed Airport Extension in Lyall Bay
Lyall Bay is a heritage site for New Zealand surfing, where in 1915 Hawaii’s Duke Kahanamoku demonstrated the sport of kings. 100 years on, what effects will the WIAL airport extension have on the Bay for surfing? Read our submission here …
Surfbreak legal protection and planning
New Zealand is recognised as the first country in the world to incorporate surfbreak preservation concepts within its legal and planning framework. The intention of this page is to discuss and link all available literature to do with surfbreaks in …
Aramoana – Whareakeake
19th December 2013 SPS is happy to have found mutual understanding with Port Otago Ltd and its shareholder Otago regional Council over the best practice to avoid adverse effects on Aramoana Spit and Whareakake surfbreaks from the depositing of dredge …
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Dec 3, 2018
MANGAMAUNU – NZTA and KiwiRail agree not to proceed with cycle way consents around Mangamaunu Point, which were granted unlawfully and without public input, and which would have significantly impacted the Mangamaunu surf break
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May 25, 2018
SURFERS MAKE A STAND FOR MANGAMAUNU
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SPS has filed for judicial review proceedings challenging the decisions by the Kaikoura District Council and the Canterbury Regional Council to grant resource consents to build the cycle way and other amenities in Mangamaunu, using a truncated RMA process under an Order in Council (OIC) under the Hurunui/Kaikoura Earthquakes Emergency Relief and Recovery Acts 2016 (emergency legislation). -
Apr 23, 2018
Democracy and the right of of legal challenge has been suspended under emergency earthquake legislation in order to build a cycle way around Mangamaunu point which will impact on this Nationally significant surf break. PLEASE EMAIL THE MINISTERS with this template (email addresses included).
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SPS are engaging with the legal fraternity to seek ways of calling out this decision through the courts as this is a clear misuse of the emergency earthquake legislation, intended purely to re establish the road and rail network. -
Apr 6, 2018
Media Release: Consents To Destroy Mangamaunu Surf Break Granted.
A cycle way is to be built on the foreshore along with a new car park with preference by KDC & Ecan over a nationally significant surf break, denying the democratic rights of the community to be involved in any new development of the pristine north coast of Kaikoura.At a council meeting held on the 28th March 2018, packed with local surfers and supporters who were against the destruction of the Mangamaunu surf break, SPS representatives asked for council to act with integrity in their decision making. Unfortunately the call went unheeded by KDC with the consents approved a day later without any protection to the Mangamaunu surf break or the bay.
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Mar 19, 2018
NCTIR are bulldozing through a consent that will build a cycleway around the pointbreak at Mangamaunu within the foreshore and coastal hazard zone, irreparably damagng the surfbreak and ruining the pristine nature of this protected bay. The consent is being pushed through under the earthquake emergency legislation that has the purpose to open the road and for restoration work. Clearly the road is already open and building a new cycleway is not restoration of any kind but a poorly thought out development that will cause damage to an area with five national outstanding features. This is an inappropriate use of the emergency legislation.
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Dec 20, 2017
The Surfbreak Protection Society is relieved to withdraw our appeal opposing the Lyttelton Port Company’s consent application for disposal of Dredge material some four Kilometers offshore from Taylors Mistake and Christchurch surf breaks at Sumner and further North towards New Brighton. We now have monitoring in place to ensure any adverse effects from the disposal can be adequately addressed should adverse effects occur.
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