Boffa Miskell provided technical advice during the quarry design and preparation of the staging plans, and then preparing ecological and landscape planning reports. Our landscape planners prepared bund designs, landscape planting plans and contributed to the rehabilitation plan.

Boffa Miskell planners provided ongoing strategic advice on planning matters, community and iwi engagement. They prepared and obtained consent to use water for quarrying activities prior to the Supreme Court decision on Cloud Ocean, and then proceeded to prepare the assessment of environmental effects, working closely with all the technical experts and peer-reviewing all reports.

There are two key matters: the noise from trucks using Aylesbury Road on two properties, and potential adverse effects on the road network resulting from quarry trucks. The latter has been managed by limiting truck numbers until the State Highway 1 and Aylesbury Road intersection has been upgraded.

Just prior to lodging the applications, the Proposed Selwyn Plan was made partially operative, and the planners had to quickly amend the application to address the relevant rules.

Burnham 2020 requested that the applications be publicly notified to enable the community to have its say on the proposal. It was notified in May 2024. Iwi confirmed that they would review and provide comments on the proposal through the usual council process. A community open day was attended by a few neighbours but despite reaching out, no-one has sought to engage with the applicant.