25 March 2024
Barry Murphy
[email address]
[FYI request #24444 email]
[email address]
Tēnā koe Mr Murphy
Thank you for your three requests to Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities, dated 11 October 2023
(received 12.24pm) and 13 October 2023 (received 9.46pm and 10.37pm respectively), requesting the
following information under the Of icial Information Act 1982 (the Act):
“1./ Please provide copies of all the concerns to do with stormwater.
2./ Please provide updated designs”
“Re: OI 23 434:
Question 31 is unanswered, I have been referred to this masterplan in other OIA responses
and have already stated the answer is inadequate as there is no street parking shown. There is
one drawing showing a walkway with a parking inside of it. Please provide an aerial view of
parking layout, or the number of parking spaces that has been allocated for street parking.
Again I ask that you provide all drafts and designs for parking. This question is unanswered
and wil be reported to the Ombudsman for continued failure to answer.”
“Please provide all emails, text messages, and any form of communications from or to Kainga
ora since 15 June 2023 til today regarding Teitei Drive Ohakune”
This is the second tranche of information relating to 13 requests for official information made under the
Act within a two day period between 11 and 13 October 2023.
For the first request, you were advised in a previous response under the Act (OI 23 504 refers) that all
information relating to stormwater had been provided. There is nothing further to provide.
For the second request, this has been covered in previous responses provided to you and also the
Ohakune Residents and Ratepayers’ Society. I refer to the following information provided in the
response letter for OI 23 651 provided to the Society in 2024:
“An official information request response (OI 23 434) was provided to your Society President,
Mr Barry Murphy, on 9 October 2023 and it contained information and relevant links to the
concept masterplan and integrated traffic assessment in resource consent documents on the
Kāinga Ora website. It notes two parking spaces per home with additional street parking.
Further information is provided in the form of the updated integrated transport assessment
detailed in question 6 below.
Your request for an aerial view is refused under section 18(e) of the Act, as the requested
document does not exist.”
For the third request, an electronic search was conducted to find potentially in scope information,
returning more than 9,250 results. This volume of potentially in scope information could conservatively
amount to 20,000 pages of material (excluding attachments) that would need to be assessed,
prepared and consulted on before it could be released.
Providing the information sought would involve a prohibitive amount of manual collation and remove
staff from core duties for a substantial period of time and as a result, the greater public interest in the
effective and efficient administration of the public service would not be served. Therefore, your request
is refused under section 18(f) of the Act, that the information requested cannot be made available
without substantial collation or research.
I note that Section 12(2) of the Act requires requests for official information are made with due
particularity, and that Kāinga Ora has also already provided you personally a substantial volume of
information across approximately 50 information requests relating to Teitei Drive (in addition to
another 20 requests for official information made by the Ohakune Residents and Ratepayers’ Society
Inc, which you founded and are the president of). Kāinga Ora asks that requests for correspondence,
or other information, are targeted and this wil assist in providing responses in a reasonable timeframe.
Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to seek an investigation and review by the
Ombudsman of this response. Contact details for the Ombudsman can be found at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.
Please note that Kāinga Ora proactively releases our responses to official information requests where
possible. Our response to your request may be published at
kaingaora.govt.nz/publications/official-
information-requests/ with your personal information removed.
Nāku noa, nā
Mark Fraser
General Manager – Urban Development and Delivery
