Compliance monitoring
- Our responsibilities
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Greater Wellington is responsible for checking that consent holders comply with their consent conditions and whether the consented activity is causing adverse effects on the environment.
- Environmental Regulation report cards
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Greater Wellington's Environmental Regulation report cards summarise regulatory activity in the 2010/11 financial year (July 2010 - June 2011). The cards cover:
- Annual compliance ratings
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On 30 June each year, all consents inspected in the past year receive one of four possible annual compliance ratings: fully complying, mainly complying, partially complying or non-complying.
- Dealing with non-compliance
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What action can we take? How do I report non-compliance?
- Monitoring charges
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We recover the cost of compliance monitoring from the consent holder. Monitoring charges are set when the consent is granted and vary considerably, depending on the scale and complexity of environmental effects arising from the use of the consent.
- Resource consent water restrictions
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Water restrictions are placed on most resource consents issued for taking water from rivers and streams during low flow periods. These are put in place to ensure the life supporting capacity of ecosystems in rivers and streams is sustained. The restriction levels are determined when resource consents are issued and conditions are placed on resource consents.