Resources
Resources
Our media Store of Environment Court Appeals, Submissions, Reports, and Associated Surf break Related Papers.
(This page is continually added to)
 |
 |
 |
| August 2017
Local surfers have been objecting to |
August 2017 SPS has appealed the Canterbury Regional Council decision to allow capital dredging spoil and maintenance dredging spoil (approximately 900,000 cubic meters per year) to be disposed within 4 kilometers off Taylors Mistake and Sumner – Christchurch beaches, without sufficient adaptive management procedures in place to protect the city’s surf breaks. – ongoing |
June 2017 Under emergency powers for the Kaikoura earthquake NCTIR are dumping up to 75,000 tonnes of slip material along the foreshore of Mangamaunu Bay within the coastal hazard zone, without the need to notify the public. NCTIR appear to be unaware of this Nationally listed surf break. SPS are striving to protect this iconic surf break. |
 |
 |
 |
| June 2017. Our evidence to the Greater Wellington Regional Council Proposed Natural Resources Plan Hearing. The Wellington Airport Company are seeking to have the Corner surf break deleted from the plan’s schedule of regionally protected surf breaks. This would mean that the Airport company would not have to consider negative impacts on the Corner as they continue to modify the Moa Point Road seawall. SPS continue to lobby for the protection of the Corner… – ongoing |
April 2016
SPS joined the local community in safeguarding access to this pristine coastline just North of Auckland. The developers are seeking to discourage access to the beach to the exclusivity of several new beachfront properties – ongoing |
SPS Submission on Clean Water 2017. The use and enjoyment of surf breaks is protected under the NZCPS, yet this is not enforced for some 479 identified N.Z. surf breaks. Wherever a surf break occurs at or near, a river mouth, it is the responsibility of councils to ensure clean water… |
 |
 |
 |
| SPS submission opposing the WIAL Airport extension and swell focus reef consent applications |
In 2016 SPS supported Bay of Plenty Regional Council by way of a 274 to the appeal from Te Tumu Landowners Group (TTLG) to the BOP regional coastal plan. TTLG were seeking to delete the Kaitunu Cut Surf break from the plan’s schedule of regionally significant surf breaks . The Kaitunu Cut has been earmarked by developers for a waterways development – including a marina attached to a 32,000 lot subdivision. With the exchange of evidence TTLG dropped the appeal |
Surfbreak Protection Society vs Otago Regional Council(Port Otago) Env Court mediated settlement. Outcome: Real time monitoring of Nationally Significant surf breaks with robust adaptive management plan in place to actively avoid potential adverse effects. |
 |
 |
 |
| Matt Skellern et al guide to surf break management in the N.Z. legal – planning framework. The Late Matt Skellern was a dedicated surfer, instrumental to our successful submission to the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement for the inclusion of Surf breaks. SPS is dedicated to continuing Matt’s legacy. |
The SPS report on impacts of Maintenance dredging on the Whangamata Bar |
The NZCPS incorporates specific policy for the protection of surf breaks(policy 16), a schedule of 17 nationally significant surf breaks that may be added to over time, and direction to Regional and District Councils to identify and map regionally significant surf breaks under policies 13,14, 15, 16, and 21(water quality) .
SPS led the charge with its successful submission to the Board of Inquiry for the NZCPS 2010. |
| . | . | . |
 |
||
| The transcript of recordings at the Auckland Board of Inquiry where the Surfbreak Protection Society spearheaded it’s case for the recognition of surf breaks as Outstanding Natural Features in their own right.Our argument was accepted by the Board of Inquiry, and surf breaks are now protected in law. | ||